All Hail The King

No ‘I-told-you-so’ moments this time around at the park in the morning. Political pundits have been stunned. The winning party has stunned itself. By now Vajpayeeji must have slapped his forehead in disappointment. He did it last when Lal Krishna Advani declared that BJP would take the field with ‘Hindutva’ printed in Bold Times New Roman Font-Size 36 on their t-shirts. By now the Gujarat mass murderer must have wiped his forehead twice to check for anymore pitch black dirt. But that dirty history deserves a mention only after we taste the sweet present and sip on the delicacies in store for us in the future. We don’t need the according-to-my-laptop’s-excel-sheet-graphics political pundits to tell us about two major conclusions that can be drawn easily from this verdict. Firstly, honesty has been rewarded stupendously, hardline hindutva has been pushed out from the back door and that too with some force. Secondly, it has come at a time when the sapling called India is showing rapid growth on garden Earth. There is a sense of inclusive growth creeping in. A sapling needs exactly that to grow into a tree.

The electorate has spoken, and no article, no blog, no analysis can precisely explain this phenomenon called ‘Manmohan Singh’. When was the last time we saw an honest and dedicated man known being referred to as The King? The button pressed by billions of Indians shows that our electorate is not at all stupid. BJP did not lose the elections on 16^th May. It lost it when they chose to go ahead with their Hindutva agenda and the casket was finally sealed when L.K. Advani decided to go head on against Manmohan Singh. 16^th May was just an epic movie that remembered those who lost and honoured the honesty of The King and its Men.

Such clean sweeps used to be in vogue when our fathers used to participate in some serious lunch-time-prediction sessions at their respective offices. But now, the armchair analysts who sat inclined towards the Congress would now be standing up to salute the runner-up. And rightly so. L K Advani deserves the applause for whatever he has done for the nation. And I expect a thundering cheer in the coming days for the man who was missed the most by the BJP. Atalji, a great man – in stature and soul. It is very sad that BJP has reduced a fine nationalist to a mere excuse. BJP has been exemplary in its own way. One should learn that one tablespoon each of a chubby goonda, a mass murderer and a tentwallah are the perfect ingredients to make a shameful smelly dish. Vir Sanghvi explained it appropriately on NDTV. "Advani era is over, Rajnath will face the axe and the Young Jerks of BJP will hold Narendra Modi at the forefront."

The highlights package will flash on your scene for days. It will include the fine governance of Navin Patnaik and Nitish Kumar being rewarded. Also, a ping pong game called Delhi, that ended with the skunk or whitewash of 7-0. The King will go to bed thinking about more policies like the NREGA to come up in the next five years. For now, we can sip on some chilled delicacies of the future- Dream team of Omar Abdullah, Rahul Gandhi, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Schin Pilot, Naveen Jindal, Milind Deora and many more. The mood is good inside every house, even if it has some dying lotus in its garden. The occupants need not worry much. When the fragrance completely oozes out of the lotus and its patrons come out of the illusion it had caused, there will be no chaos. For the hand blesses all, it doesn’t distinguish who built a temple or who let a mosque fall.