It’s been two months since the embarrassing 2019 poll defeat and the Congress doesn’t seem to have learnt any lessons. Any other party would have been planning to get back with a bang.
Everybody is talking about the winners and losers of the just concluded general elections. However, nobody is talking about NOTA that got a significant vote share. Interestingly, not many people know that NOTA does not have any bearing on the vote counting. It is merely a feedback mechanism to register a voter’s disappointment.
For the past few years, the Class X and Class XII results have been surprising me because the number of people scoring 90 per cent or above has been increasing steadily. Is it that the students these days are more studious or intelligent, or have the evaluators become liberal while marking?
General elections are round the corner. It’s that time of governance-cycle where suddenly the all-important (politician) becomes the common man and the common man becomes all-important. Basking in the glory of this transient attention that voters are getting, I thought of coming up with my own wish list of the top five things that I would want the next government to promise and hopefully deliver.