Addendum

The self-implicating commentator says this:

> -> there were assembly elections round the corner
> -> there had been by-elections to 4 seats some time back
> -> the ruling party lost 2 of these 4 seats
> -> the care-taker cheif minister contested 1 of the 2 victorious seats
> -> various constituents (farmers, middle class, small-time businessmen & traders, irrespective of their religion/cast) were pissed off with the performance of the ruling govt

How well the human mind can mix facts to derive pet inferences! I won't deny that Keshubhai did such a bad job at governance and politics (he is still at it: look at how he's playing into Congress' paws by opposing electricity reforms) that the BJP would have lost much of its earlier majority in fresh elections. However, the intervening period saw Shankarsinh display his true mettle and things became really bad. He has been rightly relegated to his constituency, rife with caste equations, and may he stay there forever. And what has Modi's winning his seat got to do with the larger scheme of things, as alleged?

Even after the riots, the elections would have been tough for the BJP, if not for the superbly timed FATWAH. Even the secularist's favourite constitutional watchdog, out to admonish and insult every Gujarati and managing it from within the State, after all his barks, snarls and snaps, only looked on with his tail down between his consecreted hind legs as the people voted AGAINST the secularists and FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE may lightning strike me if I'm wrong.

Will you point at the Parliamentary election results? Do you know the demography of the seats the BJP lost by slender margins and Keshu Patel's influence there? DO you know that the Gujarat Samachar, the Congress's favourite Dr. Goebbels published in two inch bold headlines that cooking gas prices WILL go up by Rs. 98 'tomorrow' (oh oh, I forgot to mention - smack on election day), and the number of half-literate housewives who would've been just pursuaded to vote for poor widowed hallowed white skin Sonia? YES, it is the misfortune and lethargy of the broad base of BJP supporters who didn't go out and vote, too much taken in by the now undeniable INDIA SHINING that it would win anyway.

The bastardized travesty that is the present Government formed by money-grabbing, power-crazed, morally corrupt undesirables who hate their own roots, the UBIs, that had their own INDIA WHINING (go scour the TOI and its spawn for their advertisements) now want to bask in reflected glory, which if not the creation of the BJP, is owed very much to its nurture. CAN you deny it?