This year, summers would be extra hot in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry & West Bengal. The heat pitched by the sun will be dwarfed by the heat of the ballot. The loud beating of drums, garbage piles of propaganda hand bills, blaring loudspeakers, and tired journalists are all sights of an election mayhem that everyone inadvertently soaks in preceding an election.
Just like ever, these elections would also have its good, bad & Ugly. In pre-dominant congress bastions of Assam & Puducherry no major changes should be expected especially because nothing has changed in the state since the last elections. The Tamil Nadu pendulum ballot suggests that “Amma” Jayalalitha would have the honor of staying at the Chief Minister’s residence for the next four years. The red citadels of Kerala and West Bengal could throw an ugly surprise to the INC, as the left parties have proved their Phoenician traits in the past.
It is only by early June, that we would be sure of the end of this great chaotic exercise. Personally, I find state elections more interesting, the tamasha is much louder, much more chaotic and much more personal.
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