Robert Seeberger wrote: > > Vajpayee will resign this evening as BJP has managed to secure only > 184 > > seats. Congress should be heading the next govt. It already has 216 > > seats and needs 54 more seats to be in the majority. BSP, allied > with > > Congress, has 52 seats... > > > > Ritu > > GCU Thrilled To Bits > > Thrilled enough to explain it to us ignorant Americans? <G>
Certainly. :) BJP with its Hindutva ideology [India is for Hindus, let the muslims be aware that they need the goodwill of the hindus to survive and thrive], maniacal leaders [Narendra Modi, fr'ex] and selective justice has been voted out of power by the Indian electorate. All the billions of rupees spent on the 'India shining' and 'feel-good factor' campaigns amounted to nothing as people placed their trust in their own experiences and judgments. So this morning, after six long years, I woke up to an India whose next govt wouldn't dismiss secularism as 'leftist appeasement/cowardly reaction', wouldn't offend me by insisting that some citizens live on the sufferance of others, wouldn't infuriate me by acting as if the carnage of 2002 was 'understandable' or [even worse] 'expected'.... Mind you, BJP's defeat is not a panacea and Congress *would* infuriate me too but for now, BJP's exit is a good enough reason to celebrate. :) Ritu, who still can't quite believe that BJP is out GSV Yippee
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