I am riting after a long time here ...Lotsa things have happened in India in the past one months ...first the elections and then the suprising results ...Personally I supported the NDA ....and felt bad when Vajpayee found himself in a postion to be the oppposition ...this was his last chance ...

The news channels here BBC and CNN attributed the defeat of NDA to the so called 'Pro Rich policies' which disillusioned the poor .

But I feel that its might be only part of the reason (or no reason at all) ....On the face of it .... Congress also has not won ....Congress and BJP have got roughly the same no of seats ...what has made the difference is the choice of Allies ...Take TN ...one ally DMK with 40 MPs has made so much difference ...that taken with Defeat of TDP in Andhra and no suprise BJP is sitting in opposition .

Congress is making the govt and its such a relief that Sonia Gandhi is not becoming the PM of the country ...No self respecting Indian would have felt nice on an Italian hoisting the national flag on 15th Aug from Red fort ....

Overall Manmohan Singh is a good guy ...but the problem is he is not a Political Heavy weight ...he wud need a lot of help in managing the affairs of the Coalition ...

The Dynasty still controls the congress and no wonder if 20 yrs down the line we see Rahul gandhi's Columbian Girl friend as India's Prime Minister :-)..... I don't understand why the hell Indian public is so stupid .....

Coming back to the "Have-Nots Dissatisfied - voted NDA out of power issue" ... I don't think any govt can really make a huge difference within five years without undertaking massive reforms ...corruption and Population are also a big problems ...

Massive Reforms will be difficult to implement with Left supporting the govt ....So its a tough ride for the Congress .....

Frankly I don't understand why the communists are still there in politics ...they know that they can not implement Marixism type Communism in India now ...and even Chinese communist govt is so liberal to allow McDonalds/Starbucks/WalMart/Carrefour in the country ...
The irony in indian politics is that the parties who are no 3 , 4, 5 in the final seat tally calls the shot in govt formation and its policies ....