smart indian voters!

A million dollar question – whom does Indian voters vote? The conclusion I have come across is very simple and straight forward. Indian voters vote to the candidate who works for them. Days are gone when parties used to win elections by playing cast and money politics. Indian voters have become smart now. They do accept the money offered to them. But when it comes to pressing the button they never ditch their conscious. They do not care much about candidate’s criminal record or cast as much they care how many times he visited his constituency after getting elected. And what are the work he did in his tenure of five years. Thinking about right wing or left or secular comes much later. Definitely there are exceptions where still voters get lured by cast politics but in majority of places ‘development’ is the one word which matters now.

Let me give you an example of my constituency. Yashwant Sinha (Former finance minister) is a BJP candidate from here. He had been winning quite comfortably from his seats regularly. But suddenly in 2004 he lost and that also to a piggy candidate Bhuwaneshwar Mehta. He had started taking his win for granted. Voters took the revenge and result was shocking. In assembly election also Manoj Yadav of congress has been winning from my area consecutively for last three elections. He has got a tainted past. But still he wins only because he works for his voters. He is always available and try to solve anything and everything for them. Take another example – the politics of Jharkhand. In the first assembly election of Jharkhand people voted BJP into the power. Babulal Marandi became chief minister and he started doing lots of developmental works. Other heavy weights of Jharkhand BJP suddenly started getting scared by his growing persona. They axed him out of party. In the name of Adiwasi base most incapable and corrupt Arjun Munda was made chief minister. Next general election BJP could not win even a single seat in Jharkhand and in assembly election they were voted out of power. Hope BJP learns from it and correct its mistake as soon as possible. Otherwise I do not see quite different result this election as well.

Recently voted Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhatishgadh are another example of how people voted for good governance and rejected the lazy bumps.

Therefore political parties listen carefully. Drop this hate campaign against each other and focus on how good candidate you are fielding. I understand that for most its already too late to implement this gurumantra coming from me. But may be you can use it next election and see the difference in result. Salute to you smart voters of my land. Keep up the good work. Good luck for the first phase tomorrow.