The Assembly Elections results are in. Reds win.

Bad news folks, the Chinese Puppets in India have just won Kerala and West Bengal, and the national headquarters has said that they will be bigger obstacles in our economic expansion now.

Meanwhile, in Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa has lost the elections, and DMK will form the new government. Its a pity though, for despite all her shortcomings, I thought she was a go-getter politician who got things done, and was not afraid to take bold steps affecting the same votebanks that other politicians tremble to touch.

Coming back to the Commies, well, at least in WB, the opposition had no game. In fact, the opposition's never had any game there, and I've talked about it already in my previous post. Although they support the center, their victories in Kerala and WB left Congress gasping in their wake. PM Singh calls it a victory for the 'UPA'. Yeah right! The communists care about nothing else but their own agendas.

In Assam, Congress is close to coming to power again, and also in Pondicherry. Hmm, so from what i see, these elections were really about Congress, the Commies, and the rest. Tsk tsk, BJP, where did you go? The bad news is that the Congress is coming back to power, on their own or as partners, in most of these states, and I am pretty certain they will carry forward their agenda of unscrulpulous minority appeasement, continue to abet anti-national activities, and all in all, provide for worthless, regressive governments. I could for all purposes be totally deceived, but maybe AP is looking up once again after all the depressing press I heard when YS Reddy first came to power.

There are somethings that are I am able to decipher from the way politics is being played in India. I am beginning to realize that there are huge differences between the way parties behave on the national and at the state level. While Congress seems to be focused on the reforms agenda at the center, their state CM's have been anything but satisfactory. They are so worthless in the state of Assam that their actions have probably speeded up the process of near-dismemberment of Assam. Other states in the North-east aren't doing better either. Apparently, here, the norm for state governments is to abet insurgency, as opposed to fighting to crush it.

On second thoughts, this is one field where the Congress can see eye to eye at the state and the national level. We have one of the weakest home ministries that enjoying keeping its head stuck up its ass and not look a burning India that is under attack from all sides. Maybe that is a part of their hidden agenda, I don't know.

The worst part about this whole thing is that now Left thinks it has the mandate to take its regressive stance further, and I don't quite understand this dual game they seem to be playing. While everyone keeps hearing about Buddha and his all star reformist crew, that is exactly what they plan to oppose with a great vigor now at the center. Like I don't understand this, is there something which WB is supposed to achieve which they don't want the rest of the country to obtain?

Left paints Bengal 'n Kerala red, leaves Congress pale

The Left Front has swept two out of five state assembly elections, leaving the Congress party struggling in its biggest electoral test since coming to power at the Centre, two years ago.

Although the results are not expected to drastically change power equations at the centre, some analysts say a strong showing by the Leftists could see them exerting more influence in New Delhi over foreign and economic policies.

In Bengal, Left created history with a thumping majority, bagging 235 of the 293 seats in the Assembly elections.

The main Opposition Trinamool Congress had to contend with just 29 seats, less than half of its 2001 tally of 60 seats, according to results announced by the Election Commission.
Congress, on the other hand, finished with 21 seats, five less than what it had in the previous house.

Whereas in Assam, Congress was locked in a close contest to retain power while its ally, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), was set to win Tamil Nadu, which is well on its way to have its first coalition ministry in 50 years, with the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance gaining an absolute majority in the 234-member Assembly.

But the tiny Union territory of Pondicherry offered some consolation to Congress where it was set to retain power.
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Red bastions secured, Left seeks bigger role

While CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat asserted that the party looks forward to increased interventions by the Left at the Centre, a statement issued by the CPI (M) Central Committee said, The election results have strengthened the role of the Left in national politics.

The Left parties have locked horns with the government over several key issues like airport modernisation, labour reforms, pension reforms, raising the foreign direct investment cap for insurance and retailing, and increasing oil prices in step with rising global crude oil prices.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ruefully observed that the Assembly elections were a victory for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), even though his own party was trounced in Kerala and West Bengal.

There were differing interpretations in the Left parties on what the victory meant for the future of economic reform. The West Bengal result showed that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's pro-reforms agenda had found endorsement, a group in the CPI (M) argued, indicating that on several issues, including pension reforms, the Left would now be more flexible at the Centre.

But Karat's statement struck an ominous note and many in the Congress said the future of reforms at the Centre was now uncertain. They added that the Congress government at the Centre had been radicalised by the West Bengal election and would be under Left pressure.


The Left wants the government to go ahead immediately on quotas in private sector jobs, while several ministers in the United Progressive Alliance, including Kapil Sibal, want the government to go slow on it.

The biggest clashes are likely to occur on an issue on which governments have been bipartisan all along - foreign policy.

On Iran, the US and even neighbouring Nepal, there are sharp differences between the Centre's approach and the LeftÂ’s. These are likely to come to the fore very soon.

Efforts were on till late in the evening to hammer out an alliance in Assam to enable the Congress to form a government in the state that had returned the party as the single-largest but not the majority party in the House.
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So from now on I will sit back and watch as the commie bastards try to correct all the "anti-people" policies that the previous governments had been pursuing, and roll up their sleeves as they set about undoing India's liberalization. DMK and Left governments in three important states does not augur well for Manmohan Singh and his team of economists.