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Thursday, May 13, 2004

UNEXPECTED TRIUMPH

The elections were on right? Everyone knows, and I expected those fascist minority bashing a**holes to win. Boy were we WRONG. We've just had one of the most unexpected, unpredicted, potentially great results in the history of my great country. The Congress is winning, so far it has about 217 seats, the BJP only has about 190 seats, and the Congress is expected to form an alliance with either the SP or BSP, and will be coming to power!
Hahahahahahahaha!! Death to all this Hindutva nonsense, I hope this reflects the people's rejection of the RSS/VHP agenda, but you can't be sure exactly why people voted the way they did. Hell I don't even undestand it.The exit polls, about which there's been sooooo much controversy, were absolutely wrong, and infact teh actual events couldn't have been more far removed from whats actually happening.Needless to say I'm happy, very happy.
Still I guess we all have to wait and see what happens. No premature celebrations (all though I AM guilty of sending several triumphant cell phone mesages to oh, say everyone I know)
But who knows, I really hope that Sonia Gandhi does a good job, and leads the country in an able and mature manner, I hope she holds her own in the hugely challenging internatinal scenario as Prime Minister of the world's second largest population, because all said and done, the one thing the BJP did, and I respect them for it, was to provide a stable , forward moving government, that certainly did some good things, while it was there. Unfortunately, it crucified secularism, and in the process did its best to destroy( or rather did nothing to protect) one of the greaest ideals of the Union Of India. So alas, this was too big a thing for me to overlook, hence untill the BJP dumps its Hindutva pals,I and hopefully most other sane thinking people will never give it our support.And that's that.
PS- That Rahul Gandhi has a really cute dimple.

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