Sir,
Politics is a dirty game but Indian politics is dirtier and murkier. It was fully manifested in the recently held assembly elections to Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. The Indian brand of electoral politics is dirtier as was in full swing in the campaigns of the two states. Everything is fair in politics, love and war and there are no permanent foes and friends in politics. All political parties without exception have stooped too low to catch votes. Clean politics is a thing of yester years and it has no takers in the present murkier politics. The Political hygiene is a thing of past. Our electoral democracy has been reduced to leveling of charges and counter charges just to catch votes. Gujarat and Himachal elections have drifted too low. PM Narendra Modi has even dragged Pakistan into election discourse only to emotionalize the already surcharged environment to garner votes. Mani Shanker Ayer’s Neech remark for PM has backfired and acted as a shot in arm for BJP. PM Narendra Modi being the master strategist has exploited the election campaign to the hilt to gain some seats in election. The neech politics has boomeranged and had given a handle to BJP to beat Congress party. Yes there was no level playing field between PM Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi but still Congress has managed to get 80 seats in the assembly elections. This is no mean achievement for the congress by any standard given the fact that Central ministers, some state Chief Ministers besides BJP president and the PM campaigned for Gujarat elections. One wonders where is the claim of crossing 150 mark in Gujarat Assembly. This claim has been punctured by the social engineering done by Rahul Gandhi. The BJP has got a simple majority in Gujarat and its tally has shrunk to two digit figure of 99. Thus the tall claims of BJP have proved hollow. Rahul Gandhi with the help of Hardik Patil, Alpesh Thakur and Gignesh Mewani had dented the chances of BJP to vast extent as the trio did not allow BJP to gain two-third majority in the Assembly. In Himachal Pradesh BJP has got two-third majority as anti incumbency factor has played a great role there.
All this boils down to the fact that electoral democracy in India has been reduced to petty Politicking.
Yours etc…
Omkar Dattatray
Jammu
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