1.Thank you. I agree with you. But Congress is an old and massive institution. It will reorg. India has some smart and experienced politicians. I guess an opposition will come up when the heat is gone.
Over the years, Congress has degenerated from a strong political party that had immense potential into a family fiefdom that has lost its track to govern, administer and manage the country. It has some of the most so-called educated politicians in economics, finance and other areas but could not do anything about the terrible inflation that made it a pain for the common man to live life peacefully here.
Secondly, this is a party that is no longer governed by a responsible authoritarian figure. While I dislike almost all Congressis, There were some very class leaders that the country was served with: Sardar Patel the Iron Man of India, PM Lal Bahadur Shastri, one of the most loved PMs ever, Indira, not loved but at least decisive; PV Narasimha Rao, the Dabanng PM from Andhra under whom MMS was able to transform Indian economy.
But that is past; voting is done in terms of credibility and performance. Congress biggest bane was that it took cultural, community, caste based politics more than work, development and progressive politics. While parties in Europe compete with each other on creating jobs, increasing national defence and security and providing social benefits to their nations, Congress started using violent and cheap communal tactics against the people of all societies and communities in India to create tensions and vote banks.
However this election simply showed that even Muslims and Christians are fed up of Congress' corrupt and cheap politics.
Why? Because in the end, whatever is people's faith or culture, all humans need food to eat, house to live and clothes to wear.
Something that the Congress has miserably failed to provide and has been arrogantly going about refuting public's anger.
2. Delhi is not Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad. Dynamics here are different. Modi will take time to adjust to the culture of this historic city. Within BJP Modi has competition. Advani is not irrelevant totally. Sushma, Rajnath, Arun Jetly and some others would be jealous of Modi and all his love for Amit Shah.
Today, NaMo is the most powerful man in the country.
Neither Rajnath who is the party president (only one above Modi in ranks in BJP) nor the parent organization the RSS, have any qualms about whom Modi appoints because he has given the party and the country a hope no one was able to give in last 10 years.
Modi is the second only PM to hold the post of party Chairman and leader of the party now after Vajpayee ji.
The cabinet he has appointed is not known but it will be the leanest ever had after Indira's era as per what analysts are predicting.
The Modi Model of governance is a bit like US presidential style where the government structure is more linear and decisive. That is how Gujarat developed because decisions could be taken faster than any other state's bureaucracy and corruption.
3. The international bankers and MNCs are overjoyed.But giving land to Tata in Gujarat was easy.Remember how we in both Bengals had thrown Tata out. What I am trying to say is Modi's declared development policies may cause social unrest and produce more Maoists.
Gujarat's land development policy is the best today in the country as is recognized by multiple third party agencies and government bodies in the country.
Contrary to the rumours that are spread about giving land at below market prices, Modi simply made the acquisition process easier compared to the hundreds of bribes that industrialists have do give to get land.
That's the idea; remove bureaucracy so that jobs are created and economy is back on track.
West Bengal's case was different because Momta could not make Ratan Tata subservient to her political 'considerations'. The land acquisition would have created hundreds of jobs and WB would have had a good chance. Bangladesh as a different country is a matter of your leaders' decision making ability.
As for creating Maoists, I think you are veering way out of the tangent to understand why Maoists came by in the first place. It was nothing to do with industrialization or job creation but the opposite of it where administration and babus took away land along with conniving bigwigs.
