Judgement day. Payment for bad deeds.

Today's newspapers are full of the astounding election results. The BJP, with Mr Narendra Modi as its candidate for prime minister, has won 282 seats, which gives it absolute majority on its own. With its electoral allies it can count on 335 seats. Does that mean it can do whatever it likes as its opponents are saying? No. Because the BJP has no majority in the upper house, the Rajya Sabha. It will have to listen to the concerns of other party chiefs to get its bills passed. Mr Modi has already said that he intends to work with everybody and that there are no friends or enemies in running a nation. The Congress has a paltry 44 seats which means it cannot even be the leader of the opposition which needs a tenth of 543, or 55 seats. Although both mother and son of The Family won, most of those who lost absolutely deserved it. The Speaker, Meira Kumar, famous for her trips to Switzerland lost, as did Kapil Sibal who destroyed school education in India by getting rid of examinations. The standards of reading and writing in children in rural areas declined because there was no way of judging what teachers are teaching. The Congress passed the Right to Education Act which mandates that fee-paying schools must reserve 25% of seats for poor children. This was not done to help the poor but as a blatant bribe to win votes and as a surreptitious tax on the middle class. Since 2004, when the Congress came to power, school fees have risen by 450%, putting an unbearable burden on middle class parents. Most of the teaching is done at home so children of illiterate parents will compare very poorly with children of educated parents, so exams were abolished to mask the difference. Mr P Chidambaram was Finance Minister from May 2004 to November 2008, a fact he chooses to forget, concentrating on the last 2 years when he took over from Mr Pranab Mukherjee and boasting of how he stabilised the economy. Yet he is the man who started the MGNREGA scheme costing more than Rs 2.5 trillion, forgave loans to farmers at a cost of Rs 750 billion, started subsidies on petrol, which the BJP had stopped, and increased the Minimum Support Price on cereals creating soaring inflation, rising deficits and falling growth, while he and his cronies were swanking about in Davos. He did not have the guts to stand for election this time but his son, Karti got hammered into 4th place while Mr Mukherjee's son, Abhijit won. Everything the Congress did was in self interest and not for the nation. They deserve to be annihilated. Pity Mr Nitish Kumar allowed his personal feelings to cloud his judgement. Why would you trust a party that so cheerfully betrays the nation? The DMK was wiped out. Crime and punishment.