The existential crisis of caste and other variables...

Am not a political pundit but there is one thing that I found heartening about the state elections just concluded.


The electorate are now repeatedly reminding the politicians that they are unimpressed by histrionics and are immune to the divisive politics of communalism and caste politics. And there is the Anna effect - corruption is now big factor. Starting with UPA-II and Nitish Kumar's triumphal re-election, the voters around the country are awakening the indian polity to the fact that all the mathematical equations of combinations that they had learnt regarding caste and creed, which before had assured someone like Lalu Prasad Yadav to uninterrupted rule, has fallen by the wayside.


Nitish Kumar seems to be here for the long haul because he continues to do what he was elected for. UPA-II is headed for a rout because they have forgotten.


No more will a politician thrive on top solely on caste alliances. If they cant build roads and cant provide real improvement in the life of the people, they will be booted out. And they will keep getting booted out until they learn.


And a lesson to politicians like Mayawati and Rahul Gandhi - two spectrum of the erstwhile feudal class. One playing the victim card of three millennium in order to hoard diamonds, believing that Dalits will vote for her just because she is a Dalit in power. The other, strutting around like a maharajas of old, deigning to dine with the outcast, expecting swooning crowds to vote for him, blinded by a aristocratic lineage and a dimpled charm.


The fact is that the people voted for those who advocated development. And the parties which had their ear on the ground won. A party like Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav realized people are in no mood for the rule of old. They snubbed the people who had tainted past and claimed to be a party who is shedding its lawless image. And they won in a landslide.


Of course, all politics is local and all is fair in politics, so it for posterity to see how the elected behave. But one thing is for sure, the people are speaking up. It is for the the elected to listen...