Power of Defeat

You might be thinking about choice of Topic “Power of Defeat”. Yes, Defeat is really powerful and it becomes more powerful when you don’t expect it. Yes, I am talking about Defeat of NDA in last general elections. I would admit that I did not expect it and that I was blinded by media hype and media intensive campaign that I could not see ground reality. Amazingly it looks like no one in NDA expected the defeat either and they themselves were blinded by there own “India shinning” campaign. There is no doubt that India did make good progress in NDA rule and but the campaign itself was shinning more than India was and it was shinning so brightly that NDA leader could see nothing else.

What can you do when you get defeated? You actually have many options. You can choose to accept is gracefully and look for real reasons for defeat and work to iron out short comings or you can accept defeat and do nothing and wait or you can refuse to accept defeat and blame every one and any one for it. Amazingly we have seen all three options being used. When Congress got defeat under leadership of Rajeev Gandhi they chose Route1. When congress again got defeated after Narsimah Rao they opted for Route 2. And BJP has chosen route 3. Even 1 year after defeat they are not able to digest it. The BJP which looked like party full of promises suddenly looks like a party full of fools.

They are fighting and blaming each other like kids. To Start with Atal jee was blamed for defeat and put aside. Although, I personally don’t like Atal jee, I feel he deserved better treatment. Any way the grand old man of BJP is now sulking and chooses to speak out in his own way to show his anger. Then comes Advani jee, who all of sudden find Jinnah to be secular and becomes the first Indian leader to visit Jinnah’s mazar. Ironically, the person responsible for Babri masjid demolition now considers that day as saddest day in his life. Should I trust those images of Advani and Uma bharti hugging each other seeing babri masjid demolition or should I trust the new Advani for whom even Jinnah is secular. After these two stalwarts, is line of second rung leaders none capable of leading a National party and each one is trying to break into the big league. They blame each other for party’s performance at last election. All of them looking in past.

Let’s just look into future. What happens if Manmohan Singhs govt falls today? Would BJP + allies be even able to provide a fight? I don’t think so. With current state of affairs I doubt they would even be able to get ¾ of the seats they got last time. In current scenario why would a voter even think about giving vote to a party which has no clear direction for last one year? In fact with Advani jee’s statement on Jinnah and partition I personally think they would loose votes even from there Hindu vote bank.

“A bird in hand is worth two in bush” or “Adhee chor puree ko dhave, Na adhee pave naa puree pave” and “Vinash kale vipreet buddhi”

Comments

Komal said…
On some similar lines, I would say talk about TDP. A party that has done lot for AP and Hyderabad in particular, suffered defeat heavily in the past elections (and were perhaps one of the reasons for BJP's failure too). The party was riding so high on the media-hype that they ignored all claims of Congress-I about TDP not doing any work at ground-level, as in, lot of farmers dying of poverty, no steps taken to improvize agricultural conditions, which was no fallacy.
I haven't heard about any drastic steps taken by Chandrababu Naidu or his folks. The wise had already left TDP before elections.

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