Indian elections: Kuldip's analysis

From the results, it is very clear that the basic issues of the vast majority of ordinary voters i.e. firms labours, low income group people determined the outcome of the elections. The achievements of the NDA government in the IT, software, auto and health sectors have been spectacular. Chandrababu Naidu is an idol not only in India but also in the whole world for his tremendous achievement in IT, software sector. Hydrabad has been turned into one of the most beautiful and prosperous cities in India. He lost, and lost miserably in spite of such an achievement. Now all these achievements in IT, software, automobiles, and huge foreign reserves etc. etc. are definitely glamorous, but mainly beneficial, high beneficial, to a limited number of people, hardly 2 million (around 4% of the total population) in Andhra. "INDIA SHINING" is hardly for 5-6% of the total population of India. What about the rest?

Mr. Nayar is trying to project that Muslim opposition was a factor behind the NDA's defeat. This is absolutely wrong. In this election, willingly or unwillingly, or out of fear, a large number of Muslims (minimum 25%) cast their votes in favour of the NDA. So Muslim voters definitely were not a factor in NDA's defeat . Some quarters are trying to project that this election is a victory for secularism against the NDA' Hindu nationalism. Absolutely wrong! This election has clearly indicated that basic issues like drinking water, job, proper price for agricultural products, electricity, road communication, education etc. for the common people were ignored by the NDA government. Indians in general now don't want to listen to secularism; they don't want to understand Hindu nationalism; they don't want to understand "INDIA SHINING" or such big propaganda. They want food, shelter, housing, drinking water and education.

The humiliating defeat, particularly of Chandrababu Naidu, really reflects the sharp reaction of the common people to the so-called glamorous success of the NDA.