If the media uproar, on the Delhi assembly elections is any indication the master strategies of BJP, Mr.Amit Shah seems to be a completely puzzled man by the current happenings in Delhi and Mr.Kejriwal and his party are driving the ruling party crazy.
From today morning onwards all the TV channels have been predicting landslide victory for Kejriwal. It is not a surprise to note and find that sometime back, a charge has been made recently by its breakaway group member that AAP had accepted donations from business entities engaged in money-laundering. And Mr.Kejriwal countering it by saying that as a party in power the center could order for a thorough inquiry and all that.
Even on the day of polling today, we have seen many accusations by AAP and also BJP. And in any election and for any political party this sort of acquisition and counter acquisitions are not uncommon. Unfortunately in Delhi though it is strictly a local matter and local BJP leaders would have given appropriate counter accusations and I had never expected Mr.Modi as PM to come on the scene while Arun Jaitely, the Union Minister to come for its defense, the discussions back and forth held throughout the day on TV.
I saw Mr. Modi campaigning, but my perception was there was a change in his tone and tenor and surprisingly the battle of a small union territory has been turned into a battle for the nation since the BJP deputed about 150 M.P’s. All M.L.A’s & M.L.C’s including all the Ministers, are put on the job while hordes men from state like M.P. & Rajasthan have been imported to canvas door to door.
In the process however, the Congress party is the worst sufferer as its vote share seems to be transferred to AAP. And this sort of failure as part of Congress is now understandable with the existing leadership available and it has not learnt any lessons nor did it make any introspection.
The fact of the matter is all political parties normally get small sums of money less than Rs.20000 which could legitimately be collected in the form of cash as donations from anybody in order to circumvent the radar which the large sums are shown as small from multiple sources.
Since this is certainly black money and to avoid this sort of mud slinging, as a way out the election commission of India proposed to fund the elections by the state which would make our polls cleaner while making the representatives less susceptible for getting pressure from lenders for favors as quid-pro-quo.
