On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Bharat Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been most delighted about Renuka Chowdhary's defeat, Vaiko's loss > and the loss of Ranjeet Ranjan wife of Pappu Yadav, and the defeat of > Sadhu Yadav, the terorrising brother of Laloo Yadav. Slowly, there is > optimistic hope that the criminals will be silently flushed out of the > Indian politics. I also fore-see a bad time for the stupid MNS in > Maharashtra.
Other than this supposed king-makers and "transferable vote" politics purveyor Ram Vilas Paswan lost from Hajipur - a contituency he had won wit h a world record margin of votes a while before. So did celebrities such as Shekhar Suman and Vinod Khanna. Shashi Tharoor won from Thiruvanathapuram. In general it seems well performing people who support development have won. Mallika Sarabhai lost but came in third which is admirable for an independent candidate. The famous Independents Gopinath - 16K, Meera Sanyal 10K, Mallikasarabhai 9K. The indian voter is not as dumb as made out to be. I think this time the message is clear - Shape up or ship out. -- Vinayak
