As I expected the changed voters turned the elections and the predictions heads on. The new age voter opted to vote for good governance and voted on the quality of local governance. Starting from Jammu and Kashmir to Tamil Nadu good local governance reaped rewards from voters. I am not aware of the profiles of seven sisters of east, but from rest of the country I could see that people voted to make a difference. They voted their intent, and as UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi commented, they made correct choice. Now it is left to the representatives to make the difference.
In J&K people voted for Congress and NC combine. Considering the feedback of this combine since their victory in assembly elections, it was no surprise. In nearby HP people voted for good governance of BJP government, while they rejected the SAD-BJP combine in nearby Punjab and BJP government in Uttrakhand. Some experts and Congress loyales may try to link Punjab verdict to Congress' PM candidate being Sikh but I still have faith in the people's conscience that they have not voted on negative issues.
Even in Haryana, my home state the things went per script for the first time in my entire voting career. For the first time I saw people voting on the local governance rather than going by customery pattern of voting on personal relations, caste or communal lines. Instead there was a strict shift to vote on the basis of the performance criteria, "The CM has worked for us, so we would vote for him." I saw the pattern on the polling day and was wondering on the exit poll declarations of Congress winning only 6 seats in Haryana.
I really don't have access to resources to comment on the verdict from Uttar Pradesh, but nearby Bihar finally decided to show way to Mr. Lalu Yadav his combine for good governance from CM Mr. Nitish Kumar. Red bastion West Bengal shifted from left to centre with Mamta Benerjee led central alliance pulling off the biggest surprise. There people voted against the Singur farce caused by left cadres.
In nearby Orrisa, BJD continued its dominance of state politics with good performance post Kandhamal riots, while BJP consolidated itself in Chhatisgarh once again. Rajashthan and Gujarat again proved that good governance is key to win elections. People are trying to prove that the good governance did not pay-off in MP, but I feel good governance has still won there. The spicy factor there is that repeated non-performing candidates have been removed from the field.
Like UP, Maharashtra is too vast and varied to be commented upon. But the good governance wave continued to southern states with AP, TN and Karnataka gaining for it and Kerala ruling party loosing for the lack of it.
Personally I still don't feel this is the kind of democracy we should be looking at. I would still bet for the system where people vote for candidate's performance and punish him for his and his party's misdeeds. But this is very acceptable state of democracy then which we used to see, when people would vote on various misleading political lines hurting our social and economic systems.
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