The longest political exercise of the world in the form of General elections in India concluded merely a fortnight back. This election as every Indian general election is was a cauldron where many ideas came together and each idea was a story in itself. If it was about the struggle for power, it was equally about the art of balancing your acts. If it was about an India that wishes to change it was also about its desires to hold onto to the past.
There were many stories during this election that caught the eyes, some over-reported, the others overlooked but each gave a sense of India as it is. The election was not only about the verbal bout between the two PM candidate to prove who is stronger, it was about a lot more, a Mamta Banarjee had decided to stand against the left in there forte, Tamil Nadu saw elections in the backdrop of Sri Lankan crisis, a story was building in Darjeeling, lonely lone created a tale in Kashmir, few villages in Jharkhand boycotted voting, a Gandhi was booked under the national security act, while another Gandhi was being framed as the leader for tomorrow, somehow 2014 was more intriguing for the opposition and they framed a PM from the original Gandhi’s Gujarat, social engineering as they call it was under another scrutiny, so much was happening and so much appeared to be happening.
Amidst all this as the April-May sun was beating down, people came out to vote in considerable numbers carrying out there plans without insinuation and as the psephologist predicted the vote swings and contemplated the distribution of communities the nation was deciding. On the 16th May when the fate was unguarded a lot was reframed.
They said, a national party is reviving in the Hindi heartland, the minority has shifted allegiance, the youth charisma has worked, the other national party didn’t find the right issues or didn’t carry them properly, they said a lot more, shouting into the television screens they talked of rural employment guarantee and welfare, they praised the countrymen for there insight, they praised the subjugated for destroying the vote engineering so on and so forth.
An election of many stories of many individuals gave out a clear indication, the nation needs no preaching by a few who claim to understand its need and the country does not beg for the intellectual capsules from those who follow the instincts of nation rather than guiding it. There were stories, reported or not, but were decisively transparent in there indications.
Telangana rejected the flip flop around the state hood, the already struggling Bihar mighty was further scaled down, not a single tainted “call them Bahubali” won from Bihar, the so called modern Indian faces were swept off from Gandhinagar to south Mumbai, Pilibhit and Kandhmal were won but were isolated, good governance from Chhattisgarh to Delhi paid and whether he was a part of it or not the common man asserted and rejoiced during the month long festivities.
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