Hats off to the Delhi voters
21st Century Delhi ( in early 20s) has shown its maturity and intelligence in decidedly voting for a new-born party, namely, AAP which of course campaigned with solid promises and convincing commitment for a better performance with speed and integrity even as sidelining the roaring statements of Lion Modi staking claims of all sorts including mudslinging of its leader Arvind Kejriwal in all possible ways. Luck or ill luck plays its part in full and much against one's will unfortunately. In May 2014 Modi was lucky and in February 2015 he is unlucky whereas Kejriwal has become lucky. Both will be judged by their performance and nothing else.
How and why Modi and Amit Shaw went enamoured by the self-published heroine of the uniformed services till a few years ago and parachuted her candidature for leading the BJP on the eve of elections. Poor turn out of the crowd in Ramlila grounds in a rally addressed by Modi a few weeks ago perhaps convinced him of a need for confronting Kejriwal by a strong opponent of hers and hence the induction of Kiran Bedi at the last minute at the cost of veterans in the field. Despite a safe seat of Krishna Nagar constituency vacated by Dr Harsh Vardhan who won the seat five times consecutively failed to protect the C.M candidature of Bedi. One is sure that the BJP cadre didn't work wholeheartedly for Bedi and her team. Northeastern voters settled in Delhi were treated like immigrants carelessly in the vision document of the party. No manifesto containing the demand for separate statehood for Delhi was not brought out like in the Lok Sabha Elections. Bedi developed cold feet when asked for an open public debate by the AAP leader Kejriwal. Modi's personal attacks on Kejriwal and his collection of donations from certain so called bogus firms exposed his electoral cheapness and gimmicks probably earned the voter sympathy for Kejriwal. The irresponsible utterances of Amit Shah on Black Money and stoic silence on the part of Modi on this issue also exposed their ordinariness in their commitment to the voters of Delhi. All this and more explains why and how Modi and Shah had to eat the humble pie at the election results of February 10, 2015.
In the ultimate analysis Delhi results currently reveal the people' confidence in Kejriwal and not in Modi for the quick resolution of local and pressing issues.
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