Assembly Elections 2008 - Chhattis, Raj, Mp, Delhi

[ramana]

News report from Deccan Chronicle, 11 Dec 2008

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Hyderabad Dec. 11: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, who visited New Delhi after the election results to five state Assemblies were announced, has instructed his close confidantes in the party to prepare a report based on the experiences of the parties which won the election.  According to a close confidante of Dr Rajasekhar Reddy, the Chief Minister has obtained a first hand information of the political situation in those states by talking to the local Congress leaders.  He also collected local newspaper clippings.  Dr Reddy, before returning to Hyderabad, told them to study the strategies adopted by the leaders belonging to various political parties including the Congress and the BJP.  “Find out why the BJP did not fare well in Rajasthan and why the Congress lost in Madhya Pradesh,” he told his confidantes.

This feedback is necessary for the Chief Minister as he is leading the Congress in the ensuing Assembly elections, said the source. <b>Even though the former Rajasthan chief minister, Ms Vasundhara Raje, followed the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi’s plan of denying renomination to more than 50 per cent of the tainted sitting MLAs, she was not able to win the elections.  The initial information that the Chief Minister got was that Ms Raje, while following Mr Modi’s experiment, had failed to convince the leaders who were denied party tickets to work for the party. As a result, all of them contested the elections as rebels, cutting into the BJP’s vote bank and helped the Congress to win.  In Delhi, the Congress victory was attributed to the personal charisma of Ms Sheila Dixit who has come to be known as the Chief Minister of development.  In MP, the Congress defeat was attributed to the presence of several leaders with no one supporting the PCC Chief Mr Suresh Pachowri</b>
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So lot of infighting and the 'rebels' continue as they dont have to pay the rpice of their rebellion.