Grim ideas after polling day
Yesterday was for electile functioning. Today, I ought to have been fortunately pregnant with anticipation. Instead I’ve woken up with morning illness. Which alliance will Maharashtra consequence throw up, and can upheavals observe as they did post-2019? Instead of delivering on our expectations, partymen have indulged in promiscuous bed-hopping – saddled us with govts we didn’t vote for within the earlier meeting election. A midnight coup pressured BJP to grab defeat from victory’s jaws. It received the best variety of seats, however wasn’t a part of the following MVA govt comprising Congress, Shiv Sena and NCP. The final two had been undivided until one other clandestine assembly reshuffled partnerships and broke up events hitherto loyal to 1 supremo. This led to avenue supporters rumba-samba-ing to ‘Ala re ala, Mahayuti ala’; BJP was again with the assistance of Shinde-splintered Sena and Ajit Pawar-partitioned NCP. Hence my pessimism over Saturday’s winner being as impregnable as a Shivaji fort.
‘Mahayudhi’, born from the womb of betrayal, is congenitally liable to beginning a brand new, uncivil civil conflict. The different coalition aptly shares initials with Motor Vehicles Act: its formation was unintended, results of collusion/collision, some may even say whereas driving power-drunk. There’s no assure that both alliance will stay secure since political glue too comes unstuck by pressure, temperature and outside situations. Expediency is the key sauce for energy and even survival. Hence my nightmare over horse-trading.
The adage about ‘no permanent friends or enemies in politics’ is inspired by the one which legitimises shacking up with ‘strange bedfellows’. Our rival alliances aren’t even ‘strangers’. The two NCPs and two Senas share DNA, no? And ‘party with a difference’ appeared suspiciously same-to-same. BJP conveniently shed its prim anti-parivarvad rules in addition to its smug denouncement of ‘revdi’, brazenly gorging on ‘Ladki-Bahin’ poll-dole; Fadnavis-no-novice has been making an attempt to reclaim CM-ship ever since he misplaced it. Congress will be all issues to all – or none.
So, after that shrieking electoral labour, let’s hope Saturday’s consequence received’t be a stillbirth.
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Alec Smart mentioned: “Looks like Manipur’s double engine doesn’t have even a single driver.”
Disclaimer
This article is meant to carry a smile to your face. Any connection to occasions and characters in actual life is coincidental.
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