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Congress Landslide Victory In Andhra Pradesh

AP polls: Naidu on the way out as Cong races ahead - Sify.com

Ending a decade long political drought, a resurgent Congress, in alliance with Telangana Rashtra Samithi, appeared set for a comfortable victory in Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections.

The Opposition combine's candidates are leading in about 215 seats in the 294-member Assembly, while the ruling TDP managed to gain an edge in 64 constituencies.

I am constantly watching the poll results and TDP, well Chandra Babu Naidu(won Personally with a majority 64000), is loosing in A.P. TDP is loosing in the most unexpected places which are treated as TDP fortresses, while congress candidates are winning left and right, even in the most unexpected places. In telugu there is a saying 'Bandlu Vodalu Avutayi, Vodalu Bandlu Avutayi - Bullock Carts will become Ships and Ships will become Bullok Carts', exactly that is happenning. The A.P comman man is clearly disgruntled with Naidu's governance and are up against Naidu's govt. and did silent revolution as told by would be chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy.

Is this just a common urge to dislodge the ruling govt. as a rule of thumb, I don't think so. When I visited India I heard various voices and some of them are here, they may not tell the complete story, but might give an idea.

• Poor/Common people were completely neglected and none of the the grand schemes that were designed are done with common people in view.
  
• Rich (read Kamma,Choudary,Naidu) are becoming big fat rich guys and poor becoming poor. If its Reddys, they eat a lot and give some to others, but Kammas eat everything and give nothing to others.
  
• People committed suicides b'cos of no proper crops due to three years draught, and govt. completely neglected them.
  
• No money is invested in agriculture and irrigation development, this is what a common man needs and most of the population in India is dependent on agriculture and related industry.
  
• Increased unemployment with an increased churn of thousands and thousands of engineering/medical/other graduates., but almost no employment opportunities created.
  

And according to my friend, Andand Yadav, who is sitting beside me who is very actively involved in politics, some of the reasons are:

• Internal TDP fights and TDP rebels created a huge loss, a swing of a couple of thousand votes changes the scenario.
• TDP Cadre did not work with dedication as they already enjoyed power for almost 9 years, while congress cadre fought a do or die battle.
• Congress formed alliances with TRS and CPI and that helped a lot.
• There is a general wide spread resentment towards govt. as the money that is spent on welfare programs went into few pockets and never reached poor.
• Three years of drought caused a wide spread feel-bad factor .
• Almost no govt. recruitments are done and so unemployed graduates are angry.
• Employees worked against govt. as Naidu is very pushy and making them work a lot. Employees exercise a lot of influence in polling booths.

Can you think of any more reasons ? Is this election going to have an impact on the trend and momentum that is already set in the economy of the country? What kind of impact?

Election Results: http://164.100.51.209:8080/assembly_delay_AP/default.html

TDP - 47 (Completely Humiliating)
BJP - 2 (Well, I suspect any central govt. formation)

INC - 185 (Expecting to sweep lok sabha seats)
TRS - 26 (Is Telangana state going to be a reality)
CPM - 9
CPI - 6

TDP and BJP got 39.69% vote share while INC and its allies got 48.37% vote share. This clearly depicts that about 4% of vote swing might have different results. This also shows the infighting in TDP and lethargic attitude of its cadre might have adversely affected TDP's chances.

Whatever the case, the verdict is out there, TDP got a humiliating verdict while congress got thumpict majority from AP voters.

Now, waiting for the drama to unfold about Congress govt. and how TRS is going to fight for Telangana state in AP.

What are the chances of BJP/NDA at centre? Looks like very bleak.