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The Delhi whitewash: ‘Bazaru’ opinion polls Mr Narendra Damodardas Modi?
February 10, 2015, 11:50 am IST Chandan Nandy in Nandygram | Delhi, Narendra Modi | TOI
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The Aam Aadmi Party has pricked a bag of wind personified in Narendra Modi. When Modi haughtily claimed that the opinion polls were the work of “bazaru” pollsters, he had unwittingly let out what many of his colleagues in the BJP knew when Kiran Bedi was nominated the party’s chief ministerial candidate.
That comment also was a give-away of the man’s real image; the refined picture of himself that he bandied about was just a façade crafted to conceal the face of a man whose political career was built on the blood of innocents.
The Delhi election results clearly point to one inescapable fact: almost the whole of Delhi, with people cutting across class, social and economic cleavages, voted for AAP. More importantly, the outcome shows that a very large number of BJP voters switched loyalty to vote for Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP.
Delhi did not go with Modi (what will the BJP now say about its campaign slogan Dilli chaley Modi ke saath?) whose party spent crores in huge newspaper advertisements, making all sorts of fantastic and fictitious claims of having provided people with this or that benefit, this or that facility, this or that freebie. Perhaps the Modi wave was a media and BJP creation?
Delhi’s voters, like elsewhere in the country, are aspirational. But their aspirations are different from the rest of the country in that they want the soaring prices of essential commodities checked, the runaway electricity and water bills curbed and above all they want corruption-free governance.
Modi’s harangue, empty promises and perhaps even his Rs 10 lakh bandh gala suit with his monogrammed name woven into the fabric might have cost his party 10 lakh votes. In the campaign for Delhi, Modi’s speeches were no more than rants. A garrulous Modi appeared to have spent all his ammunition in the Lok Sabha and
February 10, 2015, 11:50 am IST Chandan Nandy in Nandygram | Delhi, Narendra Modi | TOI
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The Aam Aadmi Party has pricked a bag of wind personified in Narendra Modi. When Modi haughtily claimed that the opinion polls were the work of “bazaru” pollsters, he had unwittingly let out what many of his colleagues in the BJP knew when Kiran Bedi was nominated the party’s chief ministerial candidate.
That comment also was a give-away of the man’s real image; the refined picture of himself that he bandied about was just a façade crafted to conceal the face of a man whose political career was built on the blood of innocents.
The Delhi election results clearly point to one inescapable fact: almost the whole of Delhi, with people cutting across class, social and economic cleavages, voted for AAP. More importantly, the outcome shows that a very large number of BJP voters switched loyalty to vote for Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP.
Delhi did not go with Modi (what will the BJP now say about its campaign slogan Dilli chaley Modi ke saath?) whose party spent crores in huge newspaper advertisements, making all sorts of fantastic and fictitious claims of having provided people with this or that benefit, this or that facility, this or that freebie. Perhaps the Modi wave was a media and BJP creation?
Delhi’s voters, like elsewhere in the country, are aspirational. But their aspirations are different from the rest of the country in that they want the soaring prices of essential commodities checked, the runaway electricity and water bills curbed and above all they want corruption-free governance.
Modi’s harangue, empty promises and perhaps even his Rs 10 lakh bandh gala suit with his monogrammed name woven into the fabric might have cost his party 10 lakh votes. In the campaign for Delhi, Modi’s speeches were no more than rants. A garrulous Modi appeared to have spent all his ammunition in the Lok Sabha and