AUDACIOUS IN DEFEAT

The Indian National Congress is not willing to learn its lesson. Its representative declares on a National news channel that the BJP wanted a deeply polarized electoral process, if we go by the validity of the exit polls.

What does Mr.Sanjay Jha and his Indian National Congress mean? I'm a common Indian with everything common about me - my intelligence, my intellect, my ways, my means, my output to society. I'm not even a supporter of the BJP, but I thank the party for putting Modi up. I voted for Narendra Modi. Because I wanted a stable government, a strong leader and good governance.

In 2010, Manmohan Singh attributed part of his decision making to the compulsions of coalition politics. He was looking at the interest of the coalition between the Congress and the DMK, instead of the interests of the people of India. Was he re elected to power for that? The result was the 2G scam.

There was rampant corruption in the ranks and files of the government and the bureaucracy, including the Prime Minister's Office itself. There was the CWG scam, and the Devas-Isro scam, and the helicopter scam, and the Kargil for profit scam - the Adarsh scam, and Coalgate and Railgate and...phew!
The inflation tugged away at my pocket relentlessly because prices of edibles went up again and again.

Our dumb, mute Prime Minister conceded Balochistan to Pakistan at Sharmal Sheikh, we do not respond strongly when violations of ceasefire on our western border are breaking past records, and the Chinese army make audacious incursions into our territorries in Arunachal Pradesh.
Narendra Modi seemed strong to me, made the right noises, at least they sounded right to me, at the right time.

Have I participated in a communally polarized mandate with a communal mindset??
I do not believe in organized religion, and in the perception of a personalized god/God much to the chagrin, frustration and disgust of people related to me. My idea of an omnipresent supraconsciousness is different, it is my private domain and I do not impose that on anybody. I abhor fundamentalism, whether it be in Hinduism, Islam or Christianity. If I have slammed Islam fundamentalism and Muslim pacifists, I have slammed my own mother much to her sorrow and shock, when I found out that she did not TOUCH the statues of Hindu deities, a bambino, a picture of Guru Nanak, and a Budhha-in-lotus at our own home when she was having her periods. I shall continue to do so though my blood relatives are disgusted with my nonconformist ways whose list is pretty long. Have I voted for Narendra Modi because he will commit Muslim genocides? Is he mad? Or am I?

What right does the Indian National Congress have to belittle my choice? It hasn't learnt its lesson. The leader it was trying to project is completely out of touch with ground reality. He does not have the craft, the poise, the confidence to sit through a journalist's interview. How can he make strong decisions and rally behind them in the Parliament, forget getting them down to the executive level when they reach the people?

Is this how this party will react on the 16th of May, when it will have nowhere to run, hiding behind possible fallacies of exit polls? If so, god, - he god of religious fundamentalism, save the party.

This is just the voice of a very common man. A very angry voice.