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Elections-2014 has thrown up for the first time in 30 years a parliament in which the Treasury Bench does not have to do number-crunching all the time, to push policy initiatives, legislative initiatives and even budgets – which have more often than not been passed in the midst of din and dust, with no one left any wiser on what was proposed or whatever was discussed.
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They are the new castaways of India’s politics. The massive Modi tsunami has swept away mascots of caste politics in India, tossing these so-called messiahs of backward castes into oblivion. The spectacular drubbing of caste-based parties in the 2014 elections in India has been interpreted by pundits as a potential paradigm shift in India’s political landscape with the politics of vote banks giving way to development-centric politics, blended with a dose of Hindutva, which has been exemplified in the overwhelming victory of the BJP and Narendra Modi.
Read MoreMay 16, 2014. It may sound a shade exaggerated to some, but historians will recall May 16 as the day when the people of India affirmed a new politics of national renaissance and renewal as the world’s most populous democracy voted for change and rejected dead clichés that had strangled and stupefied the nation for decades.
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The landslide victory of the BJP has triggered waves of enthusiasm in India’s corporate sector and has kindled enthusiasm among the international investor community that the new government will deliver on the much-needed second generation economic reforms.
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It’s the Modi moment in India’s political history. Narendra Modi has made history by delivering the blockbuster victory for the BJP in the 2014 elections in India, a spectacular performance that has stunned pollsters and pundits alike. In the first-ever high-level presidential-style campaign, the 63-year-old BJP leader had unleashed a massive tech-savvy campaign blitzkrieg that included broadcasting speeches through 3D holographs, addressing 477 rallies and attending over 5,000 poll-related events. Over the last few months, he traversed more than 300,000 kilometres from literally Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Here are excerpts from Modi’s speeches and comments that offer hints and guesses to the kind of leader India’s 1.2 billion-plus people has chosen to lead their country.
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Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is poised to get a plum portfolio, in the next government has described the landslide victory for his party as a rejection of politics of dynasty and a vote for the politics of hope and accomplishment.
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This is the first time in over two decades that a political party in India will get a simple majority in India’s upper House on its own, ensuring a stable and strong national government in the country for the next five years. The decisive majority for the BJP means that the party, unlike the last UPA regime, will not be hostage to blackmail and tantrums by the coalition partners. The blockbuster victory of the BJP has ended the 10-year-old rule of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, which was marred by pervasive corruption, misgovernance and the fizzling out of the India Story.
Read MoreThe suspense is over – the saffron surge has swept India and Modi is the man of the hour. Ending a decade of the UPA regime, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on course to cross the magical 272 half-way mark in India’s parliamentary polls and looks set to form the next government with Narendra Modi as the prime minister of the world’s most populous democracy.
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Latest trends emanating from the ongoing counting of votes in India’s parliamentary elections indicate that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised for a landslide victory.
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The 2014 elections will be a verdict on the performance of the two terms of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that are increasingly seen as ineffectual and leaderless and that have drowned the much talked about “India story” through a combination of scandals and policy blunders.
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