Many misjudgements during LS campaign: My comment
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Rahul Gandhi was noisy for more than a year with Rafale this, Rafale that, and "I will put Modi in jail". (I thought RG had gone psycho when he said this). Rahul's lieutenants spoke nonsense (eg Sam Pitroda said "middle class were selfish and must pay more tax") and they sneered collectively at PM Modi's family calling them neech or "chowkidar chor hai". But where it mattered, on Gandhi family's corruption, Nyay and Modi govt's development, it was chup chap or as Mr Akbar puts it, "silence always has a story to tell". People took their revenge on Congressi's feudal families, as Mr Akbar has mentioned.
TV pundits (eg NDTV) were saying Modi was making shor (noise) but the undercurrent among voters was against him. People unashamedly supported Modi in the huge rallies and right up to Rahul Gandhi's face -- but the silent ones also backed Modi particularly in Uttar Pradesh. One Yadav leader said Akhilesh Yadav will be "searching for a home after these elections like Charan Singh's son". Post elections, Samajwadi party scored just 5 seats, same as 2014. Many Yadavs had deserted them. Mr Akbar says many Muslims (in high Muslim dominated areas) also voted BJP!!
These media pundits didn't miss the tsunami (they just lied), because even I could sense it, from Rajasthan rallies, Modi-Modi chants from voters travelling to north Karnataka in packed out trains, MP's high voter turnout, loss of enthusiasm in later stages of Congress's UP campaign, Mamata Banerjee's brutality and voter suppression, and the quiet confidence in BJP from Amit Shah down to Piyush Goyal. In his rallies, Narendra Modi said he came to rallies not asking for votes but for thanking the voters (meaning he was getting overwhelming voter support).
TV pundits (eg NDTV) were saying Modi was making shor (noise) but the undercurrent among voters was against him. People unashamedly supported Modi in the huge rallies and right up to Rahul Gandhi's face -- but the silent ones also backed Modi particularly in Uttar Pradesh. One Yadav leader said Akhilesh Yadav will be "searching for a home after these elections like Charan Singh's son". Post elections, Samajwadi party scored just 5 seats, same as 2014. Many Yadavs had deserted them. Mr Akbar says many Muslims (in high Muslim dominated areas) also voted BJP!!
These media pundits didn't miss the tsunami (they just lied), because even I could sense it, from Rajasthan rallies, Modi-Modi chants from voters travelling to north Karnataka in packed out trains, MP's high voter turnout, loss of enthusiasm in later stages of Congress's UP campaign, Mamata Banerjee's brutality and voter suppression, and the quiet confidence in BJP from Amit Shah down to Piyush Goyal. In his rallies, Narendra Modi said he came to rallies not asking for votes but for thanking the voters (meaning he was getting overwhelming voter support).
May 26th, 2019
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