What I think about Delhi assembly elections - 2008: People voted the Congress back to power, and didn't grant the BJP a term to prove themselves and make a change.
Delhi voted for the development work done by the Govt... And they didn't see any difference between the development work being done by the Centre and the state govt. A lot has been done for Commonwealth Games, using special funds, and people gave credit for that to Sheila Dixit.
Above all, people have become so numb that they just don't care for what the BJP promised:- Sending out illegal Bangladeshi migrants: who cares if they are there or not: unless they attack me home while I am away, it is just fine.
- Execution to Afjal: Who cares if this terrorist lives or dies? We are fine and safe, all that matters.
- Terror free Delhi: Well, we just don’t believe that it is possible for any Govt to make our city terror free. We are pessimists.
- Rape Capital of India: Well, until my daughter gets raped, I don’t bother.
- VK Malhotra or Shiela Dixit: What if newspapers bring out pictures of old lady Sheila Dixit taking a sound nap on the dais? She is a lady, very learned, she must be good!
- Scrapping bus-corridor: Well, it doesn’t pass through whole Delhi, you know? ..
Now imagine what the Congress promised? Of course you won’t remember much! Because they don’t promise! They have the public in the soup, and they know you can’t go out of it. It is a symbiotic relationship; you just can’t get rid of the Congress. Let there be 50 bomb blasts each month, let there be 80% caste based reservations even in the private sector, let them rape every woman on the street (and Sheila Dixit justify it), let there be 90 year old ministers rule over India, we just don’t care! Because we love the feeling of nostalgia: Gandhi – Nehru family is good for ever…
