All the hungama of electioneering in Bihar has now come to rest. The next in line is the hungama of victory and comments and counter comments on the results.
Meanwhile, many exit polls have given their estimates what many observers, from common man to political pundits, have been saying. The results are for the ruling alliance. Exit polls show that the margin between the victorious and the vanquished is too great. The results are likely to be one-sided.
If this is so, it is going to hit the Laloo-Paswan duo very hard. It is nearly the last chance for them. For, in the next four years they are not gong to face any elections and therefore shall have no job at all till then. They need crucial oxygen to survive which they are likely to loose.
The results will also set the records right. The development will be the agenda of India in the coming years, and elections. A state, construed and painted all over as the most caste ridden in India will have walked away, loud and clear, from caste politics. It will also deny the success of Dr. Goebbels's theory. Despite Laloo and Paswan harking themselves hoarse from top of heir roof, that Nitish raj was bad, was inefficient and corrupt, people believed their own eyes. Caste and religion shall no longer sway them.
There is a message for the powers that be in Bihar also. Nitish seemed to have no confidence on his development agenda and apparently had enough faith on caste ridden Bihar society. That is why he hesitated t meet Narendra Modi in Bihar. He tried to build an image of a secularist by not having met Modi. Narendra Modi, on the other hand, is the trusted and recognised icon of development in modern India.
Nitish should now concentrate more on work without considering what is the image of whom. Within a few days he himself will prove that work speaks not the symbols.
