By K Ramanathan Iyer
A lot has been said about the BJP's entry into the southern lands and Congress and the 'betrayal specialist' aka politically-untouchable JDS' root in the recently concluded Karnataka Polls.
The opinion polls of almost all Television Channels including the most reliable of recent times, CNN-IBN, predicted hung assembly and the Gowdas would again play a kingmakers role effectively. But all went wrong and BJP almost got the magical figure to claim to form a government in Karnataka. What went wrong for Congress and JDS? As every one knows the resons behind the debacle of the latter, the performance of the Congress has shocked the high command and the postmortem is already on.
As Arun Jaitley, the BJP's lucky mascot as chief poll manager, rightly said that Congress' lackluster poll campaign, not having any strong issue to convince people, lack of poll strategy, in-fighting and above all the resentment all over the country due to price rise and increasing crime rate, have proved costly for the party.
What ever may be the reason, the state has now got a stable government to rule full term, provided there should be no bickering within the party. Seeing the strong organizational structure, the chance of inner party bickering seems remote as of now.
For JDS, it has lost the (face) mandate from the people of Karnataka due to its power sharing drama enacted by former 'sleeping' prime minister and JDS patriarch HD Deve Gowda and his sons. What is interesting is that, after the defeat, since BJP wants a few MLAs support to form the government, Kumaraswamy has claimed in one of the TV channels that the BJP was trying to split the party. Why should one split JDS? It's already split into many pieces with almost all top leaders of the party deserted Kumaraswamy before the elections itself.
As Yeswant Sinha rightly predicted after the BJP's painful experience with JDS that, "We will give a fitting reply to JDS in the coming assembly elections." It was actually a slap on the faces of the both the Gowdas. Will they learn any lesson out of this? Being one of the senior most politicians of the country, it is the responsibility of the former PM to behave as a matured politician and guide the youngsters for better governance. But he has miserably failed in that. One would wonder how he managed to sit on the country's most powerful chair?
Now the State has got a party which has promised to give a good governance, Karnataka should be back on the track of development. The BJP and its ministers should not look for personal gains and work for the interest and development of the Silion Valley of India. They should set an example in Karnataka, so that their southern sojourn will be a successful venture and people from nearby states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Andra Pradesh should be able to adopt the party wholeheartedly in the near future.
In case of Tamil Nadu, though the party will find it hard to win people's mandate, as Dravidian culture will stop them invading through the state stamping them as communal and brahminical party, in the case of Kerala, where the party has already its presence in many areas, will find it easy to win the people's mandate sooner than latter.
In Andra, of course the party has to work hard to overtake both Congress and Telugu Desam parties. But with TDP is in utter disarray and Congress is struggling to convince people on price rice and terrorism-related incidents, the saffron party will find it easy to hoist their flag in AP soon.
While greeting the BJP for their stupendous success in Karnataka and other states, I want to convey to the party high command, that these victories should not get into their mind and make them complacent. They should work harder now to retain the trust and faith that the people of Karnataka, Punjab, HP, Rajasthan, etc have on them and work for the benefit of the people and India. Good luck.
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