Will 2015 really be happy for everyone?

While the rest of the world was engaged with the civil war in Ukraine, the Ebola epidemic in west Africa, the shocking abduction of 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria, the extreme brutality of ISIS in Iraq, the sudden collapse in the price of oil and the unexplained disappearance of flight MH370 with 227 passengers in 2014, for us in India there was a political earthquake when the BJP achieved absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the general elections on 16 May while the Congress got just 44. Apologists for the Congress blame corruption by its allies in government, the fall in the rate of growth because of the global economic shock in 2008, precipitated by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the unfortunate inflation and intolerant Hindutva for the defeat of the Congress but in doing so they are probably ensuring that the Congress gradually withers away as a party. True, Lehman Brothers took the whole world by surprise but the rest of the problems were created by the Congress itself. Corruption was casually brushed away as ' coalition dharma ', while ruthlessly beating up anyone protesting against it, inflation was a result of massive social schemes, which increased labor costs by putting a floor under rural wages, and Hindus were forced to unite due to the polarising effects of pseudo-secularism, which sought to portray all Hindus as aggressors while protecting so-called minorities. But the BJP could not have gained so many seats with only Hindu votes, especially as many Hindus are vehemently anti-BJP, which means that sections of every other community must have voted for the BJP as well. There are those who even today try to minimise the victory by saying that it is a minority government because the BJP received only 32% of the total votes cast choosing to forget that the Congress came to power by winning just 145 seats, with 26.5% of the votes cast, in 2004 and proceeded to wreak havoc for the next 10 years with the help of fringe parties. For the Congress to get back to power it has to realise that the people voted for its exact opposite. The Congress is a sycophantic party devoted to The Family while the leadership of the BJP passed from Vajpayee to Advani to Modi. For the Congress anyone from The Family is automatic choice for prime minister while Modi has no children and does not favor his own family. Finally, the secularism practised by the Congress is actively anti-Hindu as proved by its blockage of key legislation over reconversion while not explaining why it is fine to convert Hindus. We pray that 2015 is a year of sense when the selfie-stick and Kim Kardashian's booty are banished forever. A Happy New Year to everyone who reads this.