The BJP has stormed the South Poll, say the newspapers. Well, I am wondering if that will help the party in the 2009 general elections. Because there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and there is still a few months left before the votes are cast. How will the party deal with the Gujjar violence, and how will the other parties exploit it in the cow belt, and how the issue will pan out, along with many other already live and yet-to-be-live issues - all these make it too premature to say if the Karnataka victory will be a precursor to such a victory at the Centre.
The fact is, whoever comes to power, it isn't going to change the lot of the poor millions or the state of the environment much. Apart from paying lip service to these causes, our politicians aren't going to do anything concrete about these.
Things are going to get worse, the gap between the rich and the poor is going to get wider, the environment will be ravaged even more by greedy businesses, and communal and casteist differences will be exploited with elan. It seems there was never a better time to be a politician in India!
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