Good Sign for the Future?
As the results of the state elections came out on Saturday, the one that garnered all the attention was UP. Obviously. How could a state considered impossibly complicated with its castes, sub-castes and religious divide yield such a landslide outcome to any one side? And yet, Amit Shah has done his magic twice, during the Lok Sabha elections and now. Amazingly, the BJP did not field a single Muslim candidate in UP! So was this a “majority vote against a minority veto”? Has the Modi-Shah combo nailed the numbers perfectly to become the “Hindu mascot” without “running after the minority votes”? Is the Muslim vote bank on whom all of the opposition relies no longer sufficient to win? Has “sickularism” finally gone so far that the majority has begun to assert itself? Or is it also because Modi, the orator, promises growth, progress and jobs while the opposition only plays to the fear of the minorities without offering anything positive for anyone? If this is a trend that is here...