This is a ing disaster. The socialists have had India in poverty for 50 years, and the BJP finall ypulls them out of the rut, brings them closer to the US, and this is the reward they get? India deserves to be poor, if they keep electing fools who ride on the names of their parents.
Oops, don't we do that? (Kennedy, Taft, Bush, Clinton, Gore...)
India's economic boom only affected urban areas, rural households were still living on the breadline. The BJP made a HUGE mistake by campaigning on its economic record, because many rural communities simply did not recognise the images displayed in the campaign ads. Thus they felt alienated, and regarded the BJP as out of touch.
At any rate, the BJP's record of extreme sectarianism and stoking up religious intolerance meant they were plainly unfit to govern. I'm glad to see India return to secularism, even if that means a quasi-socialist government.
