Bored with bread, everyone wants cake.

After results of elections in 4 states, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, were announced legions of pundits have been educating us with their valuable analyses of the results. The National Democratic Alliance, consisting of the BJP and its allies, won Assam with 86 out of a total of 126 seats, the Left Democratic Front, consisting of CPM and its allies, won Kerala with 91 out 140 seats, the AIADMK won Tamil Nadu with 134 out of 234 seats and Trinamool Congress won West Bengal with 211 out of a total of 294 seats. Congress managed a consolation victory in Puducherry winning 15 seats, while its ally, the DMK won 2 seats, giving it a majority in a 30 seat assembly. Apart from giving the power to loot to one set of politicians, as opposed to another, waht difference do these results make to India as a nation? Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal and J Jayalalithaa of Tamil Nadu join Nitish Kumar of Bihar and Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi in dreaming about becoming Prime Minister in 2019. Both Nitish Kumar and Kejriwal have adopted a strategy of abusing the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in extremely uncouth language. The rout of the Congress Party is blamed on Rahul Gandhi, with Mamata Banerjee's acid observation," Rahul Gandhi is a Narendra Modi asset." It is not really Gandhi's fault. He has been brought up in a sterile atmosphere of extreme wealth and Z+ security and has never had to sweat in his entire life of 46 years. He probably has no knowledge of how people live, how they earn a living, what difficulties they face, how they cope with endemic corruption and how the lack of quality education, healthcare and law and order make our lives a struggle for survival. His is a classic case of 'Let them eat cake'. Did he serve biscuits after his dog had eaten out of the plate? That would be taken as an extreme insult in India. Embarrassed, he did not attend a meeting with the Indian Youth Congress yesterday. Ms Sonia Gandhi tried to cheer Congress workers by saying," If one sticks to principles, no failure is permanent." Absolutely, and therein lies the problem. What principles does the Congress have? Milking Gandhi and Nehru generates diminishing returns as 65% of the population is below the age of 35 years. The poor are not satisfied with handouts and the educated are fed up with corruption, bred from crony capitalism. As for the BJP, it should not get carried away. As long as it is seen a party of Hindi-wallahs it will not be popular in the south or the east. It must remember that Hindus have many gods and goddesses so banging on about cows and vegetarianism creates anger. To embrace all Hindus it must ban castes. Regional satraps will only fight. We need a party of unity.