Assembly elections 2009: Who should introspect?
Looking at the statistics, the Congress has got 21 per cent votes in Maharashtra although the number of seats won has increased to 82 from 69 in 2004. Clearly, this cannot be called the peoples' mandate.
AS THE present elections in three states, Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh are over and the results are declared, the leaders are busy in discussions to form the governments. The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has accepted the outcome with greater disappointment. But the Congress is all happy that they are able to form the government in Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh, and can try their luck in Haryana also, as they are short of six seats to form the government.
Looking at the statistics, the Congress has got 21 per cent votes in Maharashtra although the number of seats won has increased to 82 from 69 in 2004. Clearly, this cannot be called the peoples’ mandate. People of Maharashtra, and in two other states where assembly election was held, had no option to vote. Although there was a major issue of price rise of consumer goods that might have been the setback for the Congress but in absence of the strong opposition, the people of Maharashtra had no option other than to vote for Congress, to get at least the stronger leadership that can work with the Congress government at the Centre. It is due to this reason the voter turn out was meagre.
Therefore, it is not the time for only the BJP to introspect at the outcome of the result but the Congress should also work to control the price rise of consumer items and work with greater efficiency and accountability if it wants to stay in power at the Centre and also eyes to expand its base in the states of the country.
.NCP's vote share should also be added to Congress' as they both fought the battle together and Congress did not have any candidate in over 100 seats assigned to NCP. Such juvenile attempts at throwing mud on the winner cannot be called journalism!
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