2009 Poll Prospects And Alignments-2

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<b>For whom the bell tolls..?</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->February 27, 2009 by janamejayan

EDITORIAL

Sharad Pawar quit the Congress Party after stating that  Sonia is a foreigner and cannot hold the office of the P.M.  He later formed the National Congress Party (NCP) whose strength lies only in his home state of Maharashtra.  However he did align with Sonia’s Congress and shared power at the centre with Manmohan Singh acting as P.M. while Sonia pulled the strings from behind.

With a sick Manmohan Singh having underwent a quintruple heart by-pass not only the P.M.’s job is up for grab but also the old alliance is getting reconstituted.  Sharad Power is once again staking claim for the top post.  He has already seemed to have got the nod of Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav. This has irked Sonia who is trying to project her son Raoul Gandi who is not only a novice but totally incompetant in the eyes of many.  So Sonia hit back at Mulayam when he garnered the support of Kalyan Singh to widen his alliance to face Maya.  Sonia tried to paint him as anti-Muslim.  It didn’t so much as cut any ice.

Now in the state of Maharashtra where the Congress has been hoping to win sizeable number of MPs, Pawar is trying to upset Sonia’s apple cart.  It looks like a certainty that the NCP-Shiv Sena would become a reality with some of the ex-Shivsenaites acting as the catalytic agent. In Maharashtra the BJP is also a force to recon but since the death of Mahajan, the party was sort of rudderless in that State.  The BSP and SP have also made inroads into that State.  They are unfriendly to the Congress to say the least and they can erode on the Congress’s vote bank.  In the mainly three cornered contest among the Congress, NCP-SS alliance and the BJP the Congress is sure to lose big time as also the BJP though it is too early to say who among these two will be the bigger loser.

Even in Andhra where the Congress had won big the situation is not that rosy.  It may be a case of easy come easy go in Andhra for the Congress for it is facing a double anti-incumbancy and the serious Telengana spectre.  So all in all, there is not a single state where the Congress can claim to have its domain.  It cannot however be said of the BJP which has quite a few strong States.  I am certain that the Congress Party would have its historical low in this election.  If the opposition can act responsibly post election it will be the death knell of the Congress party.

Janamejayan<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->