Watchout, Modi Eating ‘States’ for Breakfast
BY RK MISRA Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner. And Congress realized this much to it’s chagrin when an impatient India sent it packing and now waits expectantly while saffron replacement Narendra Modi lays the table afresh. For the moment he seems intent on clearing the gargantuan kitchen. Maharashtra and Haryana have just been swept clean of the Congress and NCP in the State Assembly elections held this month and are set to be replaced with a spanking new saffron set-up headed by Modi’s trusted men. Next year, 2015, is the turn of Bihar to go to the polls followed by Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and Assam in 2016 and Uttar Pradesh, Manipur and Punjab in 2017 Congress is now reduced to ruling in only 9 of the 29 states in the country, five of them-Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Meghalaya-in the north-east, a junior partner in Jharkhand, besides Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Kerala. The Indian political ‘Plate’ has been seeing considerable seismi