Muppalla wrote:Regarding AP everything is a new rumor.
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I think the whole thing is a charade. Nothing is going to come out of it except suicide of kongis in AP. Basically, kongis were wiped out of UP and Vihar in 1990s due to Ram-Janma Bhoomi and Mandal issue. But, kongis were able to survive in AP, MH and KT. Guj was always a Lotus bastion. Vangal and Kerala were left bastions.
AP, MH and KT are the roots of power for kongis. These regions provide seats and money. TDP was able to kill the kongis in AP. But, Yesu Reddy managed to resurrect it, partly due to the policies of CBN. Yesu Reddy was able to do that because kongis still had considerable roots in AP even though they were out of power for 10+ yrs. But, now they have burnt the party from its roots.
So, now kongis are wiped out of AP just as they were wiped out of UP and Vihar. In the short term, the space ceded by the kongis will be occupied by the TDP(& other caste parties) and kongi B teams(parties that splinter from the kongis). In the long term(say 10-15 yrs), the space will be occupied by Lotus or other Hindhuthva parties. The same can be seen in UP and Vihar.
In UP and Vihar, one can witness the second phase(the first phase was wiping out of the kongis). The space ceded by the kongis was immediately occupied by the 'third-front parties'. In the second phase, the political space is now being taken over by the lotus. The same will also be true in the case of AP. In AP, we are the seeing the first phase i.e. wiping out of the kongis.
What it means for the country at large is that the kongis can never again form a sarkaar on their own. They can only form a third-front kind of sarkaars from now on. Kongis are now the new left. But unlike the left, kongi system is based on a single dynasty which cannot survive without power. So, unlike the left, the kongis are not going to survive for long.
I have personally switched out of the news on AP because its a new circus everyday. As you rightly put it, its a new rumour everyday. Nothing has any credibility. Until something comes out officially(and I don't mean digvijay kind of official but really official i.e. bill passed in parliament and signed by the prez), its not believable. All is maya...
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But, there is one great lesson in all this drama:
the politicians don't give heck about people. They are only and only interested in their power and perks. They don't even fear the electorate. Because they think that their power comes to them from the party. So, they are first loyal to their own interests, and then they are loyal to their parties. People and their welfare is not even an issue.
The only way, it seems to me, to solve this issue is by having some king of recall in the system so that the elected representatives fear and respect the electorate. The representatives must be loyal to people first and foremost. Loyalty to party must be secondary. That can only be enforced if there is a recall system of some kind.