To me, the outcome of the Bihar Elections has been both discordant and grating. I am disheartened although not dismayed, as the outcome was a highly probable one. Nitish- Lalu combine had ensured vote portability. A large majority seeking development voted for Nitish, and the more parochial ones voted for Lalu. I would actually have been very pleasantly surprised if the MGB, the grand alliance, so skilfully coalesced by Nitish Kumar would have lost. That would have signalled perhaps a good departure from caste based politics to clean politics. Of course the question then would be, is BJP clean, and the answer is no.
The word communal has, due to protracted overuse by various political parties particularly the Congress, to brand the right brigade has acquired a pejorative connotation, but actually communalism is the back bone of democratic processes. A democracy is all about issues of the a community or commune, which does not mean a disperse religious group.
Electorates world over are wise, because collective wisdom is better than individual. But it is distraughtly when collective wisdom glosses over anomalies and legitimises criminality making a travesty of a judicial system.
The latest example is Lalu Prasad Yadav leading the MGB to a landslide victory, despite the fact that he is convicted in the Fodder Scam case and was actually on bail while he was addressing rallies.
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