Politics is all about Economics - Nitish shows the way
IN one of his Budget speeches, Dr. Manmohan Singh had said, "voting Congress is not only good politics, it is also good economics."
The massive victory for Nitish Kumar in impossible Bihar, is a giant leap for Indian Democracy. An honest Chief Minister coming back to power, simply on the plank of economic development, leaving aside all considerations of caste, mandir, masjid etc, is a great victory for Democracy and the much maligned state of Bihar providing this great new direction, is marvellous. The growth in Bihar was a massive 11 percent in the last five years.
Bihar was once considered as a model State for administration, but somewhere down the line, everything slipped and Bihar became the butt of ridicule. Lalu Yadav wanted to make the roads of Bihar as smooth as Hema Malini's cheeks, but perhaps for him, the only way to do that was to make her cheeks as bad as Bihar's roads. Neither Hema nor the people of Bihar obliged Lalu. But Nitish brought roads, not the kind that Lalu promised – but certainly they were roads to development and that makes all the difference.
At a time when the whole country is cynical and politics is associated with huge corruption, the massive victory of a simple honest Chief Minister is certainly is good news for all of us.
This is the greatness of India and this is how we survive the worst tragedies.
Maybe this was what Lord Krishna was telling Arjuna a long time ago:
Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya Glanir Bhavati Bharatha
Abhyuthanam Adharmasya Tadathmanam Srijamyaha.
Parithranaya Sadhunam Vinashayacha Dushkritham
Dharma Samsthapanarthaya Sambhavami Yuge Yuge.
"Whenever there is a fall in Dharma and a rise in Adharma, I come".