Monday, October 22, 2012

ELECTIONS: COMING TO POWER

Two CMs who bravely defied anti-incumbency and emerged trumps in both assembly and Lok Sabha elections

Above all, while people like Narendra Modi were giving confused signals of looking for a ‘larger-than-Gujarat’ role, Patnaik has ensured that BJD remain largely a regional party. “In the last five years, BJD has sat on the opposition benches in Parliament and we will continue to fight for the demands of our people, we are a regional party,’’ he reemphasises his winning card.

In Andhra Pradesh, YSR Reddy’s claims that allotting seats to a large number of women candidates paid them dividends. Currently, there are six women in the state cabinet, including Andhra Pradesh’s first woman Home Minister, Sabita Indrareddy, widow of former Home minister, Patolla Indrareddy.

“Six women were inducted into the cabinet and I, as a woman, have been elevated to a superior status. This is the chief minister’s democratic humanism,’’ says Indrareddy. A YSR insider, she belongs to Telangana and held the mines and geology portfolio in the last government. “New parties were formed, alliances created, we performed well. Politics is not mathematics. Voters know to choose between state and the centre. We have to accept the verdict.” the first woman to hold a full fledged home portfolio, explains how her party did less spectacularly in the assembly. It had won 185 seats in 2004 assembly polls.

Nevertheless, the fact remains that both Patnaik and Reddy have struck a powerful connection with the people of their respective states over the years. The election results are only the logical end to their exemplary efforts.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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