India just concluded its 15th Lok Sabha Election. With the results out, who will form the government is very clear. As usual as before, it was nobody’s cup of tea to project the result, though everybody tried it. Every paper, every next door news channel had its own reservations for the results. Many of them expected Mayawati to play a leading role in formation of government. Some had even gone to the extent of predicting her to become the next Prime Minister (read Forbes- click here for details).But the results are here for all of us to see. I personally feel that the Indian Election is not easy to predict; in fact it’s impossible. The reason being the huge size of Indian democracy.
Here are some of the good things that I see out of this result-
- People have become aware of the importance of coalition free government or a lesser coalition government. After 1992 election this is the first time that India has seen a single party getting more than 200 seats. This also means that the government will run smoothly for the next 5 years. Any government which has lesser dependence on coalition will definitely perform better than when it is under the pressure of coalition government.
- This time we would not see smaller parties playing bigger role i.e. with LJP getting zero seats Ram Vilas Paswan would not be a union minister. Paswan has served as a Union Minster under five different Prime Ministers and holds a cabinet berth in all the Council of Ministers formed since 1996. During these years he has been part of national coalition (the United Front, the National Democratic Alliance and the United Progressive Alliance), which have formed the Indian Government since 1996. In fact no coalition existed without him. He got all this with just a small chunk of lok Sabha seat (in 2004 LJP got just 4 lok Sabha seats). This time he broke his own record!! . LJP is just one of those parties there are many other such parties.
- The response of people of Bihar is something which can never be left out. This time people realised the importance of development and voted the right person to power. People now had choices/reasons to vote for and they just came out and did that and the results are in front of us. Caste politics did not play a bigger role and it was replaced by development politics. With lesser crime rate and more development happening, people got the reason to vote for and brought the right person to power.