Political hijack

A limping economy and the long shadows cast by UPA-II, had the Congress  on the back foot and the Assembly polls  reflect this. The irony is that Shiela Dixit ,with her   largesse to the urban conglomorate Delhi,  inter-alia ,regularising many a slum cluster to colonies,was handed a  personal defeat by the urban voter. And in Rajasthan, the  Congress despite   launching  its many  flagship  inclusive rural schemes there,  was rudely  abandoned by this very  rural segment.An upgraded and modern mode of high decibel ,whistle -stop politics is perhaps managing  to skew  our perceptions at the upper crusts , more than the core concerns . The UPA  did indeed provide both growth and inclusiveness.The global downturn has many a nation in the grip of economic stasis and high inflation and  governments are bearing its political brunt . India is no exception. Whereas  a government can merely enable  growth, it alone can subscribe to inclusiveness and . in a democracy, that is a hard task.Concerns of the Congress on economic equity,of growth by the BJP and of inflation by the AAP ,all have their relevance  but our political choices can not be allowed to be exclusively hijacked by just one of them.