Once mocked for Democracy..- 2

        Part -1 was popularly know as "Laloo Raj" or better call it "Gunda Raj". Law and Order was null and void , Governance was only to protect "Gunda's" , road was meant for kiosk for so called party workers and people were unable to use their power of "vote". Before , EVM(Electronic Voting Machine) was introduced ,elections was won by people who had power to capture "voting booths" or enough money to buy a person's vote. Rest , politics was on basis of caste and religion. "Netas" were ingenious enough to  play with  people's sentiment on basis of cast and religion. Advancement in technologies was boon for Bihar as electronic voting machine was introduced in elections around 2000 , resulted in diminishing the option of booth capturing. With time people were able to make use of democratic power and Nitish Kumar came into power in 2005 . From 1990-2005, Bihar witnessed no development as compared to any other states in india. This was the time , when city of pearls was turning into IT-hub, Electronic City was getting charged up , and Great mysorian state was transformed into "silicon valley of India".

        Before 2005 , kidnapping , extortion and scams were a common affair . Alomst daily , news headlines were preoccupied by these incidences taking place almost on daily basis. To travel 56 KM  on highway it took almost three hours by bus and when you travel by train then it might have  taken few more hours. I have myself witnessed these things . But in last five years, Nitish has reconstructed Bihar . Now , hardly there is any  news making headline regarding criminal activities from Bihar. We can now travel 56KM in one hour, even with trains. Bridges , roads , schools , everything seems to have undergone changes . Its definitely not best but its there now ,which never existed in past . Roads are cleaner , girls are going to school, no kidnapping , no extrotion , business-men are having a calm time , we could perceive the  changes which seemed to be stagnant in last 15 years. This was indeed a better law and Order/Governance  ,though not the best one..
        Now it was again election time in 2010. Election was to be done in six phases , all political party started the same trend of making issues and leg pulling of each other. Mr.Rahul Gandhi so called youth icon , was watching and following every activity mostly from posters only. Laloo Prasad yadav and Ram Vilas introduced there sons into politics  . Rahul gandhi was given preference over other youth icons like sachin pilot, scindia, deora and many more don't know  why ?? may be because he is "gandhi". Congress knew pretty well that for stable governance at center they need cater two states carefully thats Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In national election rahul was able to charm people of UP and was expecting same in Bihar. Congress here forgot one thing , this is only land from where mighty Indira gandhi was shaken by JP Movement in 1974. Laloo and paswan were confident about their usual cast/religion politics . Moreover, BJP was not permitted to propagate their hindutava and Narendra modi was restricted from visiting state for election campaign.Nitish /NDA fought elections on one issue and  that was - "Development",
        Result all we know , people voted above family and caste/religion politics . Only issue was development on which NDA outplayed  RJD-LJP in every field. This was one of the most watched  elections as it was of longest duration , and election commission took every possible step to oraganise it peacefully .More over people of bihar once mocked for death of democracy , were now cherished for the change they have shown to nation with  power of democracy . A clear message was sent to all politicians around nation that elections can be won on basis of development and work rather on any  family or cast/religion politics.
         I like to congratulate People of bihar who has set an inevitable example of democracy. Nitish kumar , a demure person by nature, Engineer by degree and wise politician by profession will be able to reconstruct Bihar or not ?? "Time" can only give the answer!

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