The Bihar vote
The electorate successful Bihar State has unambiguously fixed its stamp of support to the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) authorities to enactment successful bureau for different 5 years.
The historical triumph is simply a wide denotation that the governmental vocation and popularity of Mr. Kumar person reached its zenith. The rejection of the INDIA bloc is an unquantifiable setback, which contempt its high-octane campaigns — overmuch touted ‘vote theft’ presentations by Congress person Rahul Gandhi and a plethora of promises by Rashtriya Janata Dal person Tejashwi Yadav — failed to resonate with the voters.
The NDA present faces the adjacent acceptable of Assembly elections, scheduled for adjacent year, with redoubled vigour and confidence. If the INDIA bloc has to enactment applicable successful the electoral arena, it should pore implicit the reasons for its humiliating defeat, reorient its strategy, and instrumentality up the issues confronting radical successful each earnestness. If not, it volition look a humongous task to regain the spot of the people.
V. Johan Dhanakumar,
Chennai
The Bihar predetermination effect has again shown up a governmental information — the mediocre authorities of Congress enactment and the INDIA bloc. The Nitish Kumar-led NDA conjugation struck golden by adopting strategies to empower women.
Midhlaj P.M.,
Changaramkulam, Kerala
The Opposition has rapidly turned its ire towards the Election Commission of India, hinting that the ruling alliance’s expanse successful Bihar owes much to organization indulgence than electoral persuasion.
Yet, the NDA has been astute successful wrapping each contested enactment successful the comfortableness of ineligible propriety: the currency transportation arsenic payment continuity and the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls arsenic regular electoral hygiene. Such manoeuvres whitethorn autumn wrong the rulebook, but they inevitably rise a quieter question — however overmuch of ideology lies successful law, and however overmuch successful trust?
Gopalaswamy J.,
Chennai

6 months ago
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