And yet again its BJP or Congress, and the country is too busy being intelligent in getting one among the two.
Its not about getting the right Leader. It is about where we are getting him elected into.
After almost 60 years it utterly evident that the system could only be false. The government.
We are only trying to get the right leader into a false system.
The Indian constitution is the derived from the British and yet still in the British have Monarchy.
Doesn't this arise the very question in you?
Below is how and who the country has been electing for the past 60 odd years.
Out of 16 elections only 8 have Completed its full term.
1st Lok Sabha (1952):
Indian National Congress (INC)
April 17, 1952, lasted its full term till April 4, 1957.
--------------------------------------------------------------
2nd Lok Sabha (1957):
INC
The 2nd Lok Sabha completed its full term on March 31, 1962.
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3rd Lok Sabha (1962):
INC
Completed its full term
Indo-Sino conflict of 1962
1956-57 construction of a Chinese military highway in the disputed territory of Aksai China just west of Tibet.
Widely criticised for his government's insufficient attention to defence, Nehru was forced to sack the then defence minister Krishna Menon and accept U.S. military aid.
Nehru died on May 27, 1964. Congress had elected a new leader, Lal Bahadur Shastri. succeeded by Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter.
Despite stiff opposition from veteran Congress leader Morarji Desai, Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister on January 24, 1966.
The party was going through internal crisis and the country itself was recovering from two closely fought wars. The economy was hurting, general sentiment was low.
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4th Lok Sabha (1967):
INC
A mid-term election to the Lok Sabha was called for, a full one year ahead of schedule.
Indira Gandhi, elected to the Lok Sabha from Rai Bareili constituency, was sworn in as the Prime Minister on March 13.
In order to keep dissident voices at bay, she appointed Morarji Desai, who had opposed her candidature as PM after Nehru's death, as Deputy Prime Minister of India and Finance Minister of
India.
The party split into two factions: the Congress (O)-for Organisation-led by Morarji Desai, and the Congress (I)--for Indira-led by Indira Gandhi. Indira continued to head a minority
government with support from the CPI(M) till December 1970. Not wanting to head a minority government any longer, she called for a mid-term election to the Lok Sabha a full one year ahead
of schedule.
The country was set for the fifth general elections.
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5th Lok Sabha (1971):
INC
Completed its full term
India-Pakistan war in 1971 that resulted in the liberation of Bangladesh. India's victory in December 1971 was hailed by all Indians as it came in the face of diplomatic opposition from
both China and the United States. There was hardly any international support from almost every other nation.
On June 12, 1975, the Allahabad High Court invalidated her 1971 election on the grounds of electoral malpractices. Instead of resigning, Indira Gandhi declared an Emergency in the country
and jailed the entire Opposition.
The Emergency lasted till March 1977 and in the General Elections held in 1977, she was routed by a coalition of parties called Janta Morcha. This was the first time that the Congress had
been dealt a bloody blow.
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6th Lok Sabha (1977):
Janata Party. The Congress lost the elections for the first time.
Completed only 3 years of term.
Janata Party leader Morarji Desai, who had been released from prison two months before the elections, won 298 seats. Desai became India's first non-Congress Prime Minister on March 24.
The state of Emergency declared by the Congress government was the core issue in the 1977 elections. Civil liberties were suspended during the national emergency from 25 June 1975 to 21
March 1977 and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assumed vast powers.
Gandhi had become extremely unpopular for her decision and paid for it during the elections. Gandhi, on January 23, called fresh elections for March and released all political prisoners.
--------------------------------------------------------------
7th Lok Sabha (1980):
INC or Congress (I)
Completed full term
The Janata Party, an amalgam of socialists and Hindu nationalists, split in 1979 when Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) leaders A B Vajpayee and L K Advani quit and the BJS withdrew support to
the government.
Desai lost a trust vote in Parliament and resigned. Charan Singh, who had retained some partners of the Janata alliance, was sworn in as Prime Minister in June 1979.
Congress promised to support Singh in Parliament but later backed out. He called for elections in January 1980 and is the only Prime Minister not to have faced Parliament. The fight
between Janata Party leaders and the political instability in the country worked in favour of the Congress (I), which reminded voters of the strong government of Indira Gandhi.
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8th Lok Sabha (1984-85):
INC or Congress (I)
Completed only 4 years of term.
Prime Minister Indira's Gandhi assassination on October 31, 1984, created a sympathy vote for the Congress. The Lok Sabha was dissolved after Indira's death and Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in
as interim Prime Minister.
Elections were announced for November 1984 and during the campaigning Rajiv reminded people of his family's contribution and portrayed himself as a reformer.
--------------------------------------------------------------
9th Lok Sabha (1989):
Janata Dal, National Front's largest constituent won
Vishwanath Pratap Singh became the 10th Prime Minister
Completed only 2 years of term.
1989 General Elections were fought with the young Rajiv cornered with numerous crises - both internal and external - and the Congress government losing credibility and popularity.
The Bofors scandal
Rising terrorism in Punjab
The civil war between LTTE and Sri Lankan governmenthe civil war between LTTE and Sri Lankan government
On October 11, 1988, the Janata Dal was formed by merger of Jan Morcha, Janata Party, Lok Dal and Congress (S), in order to bring together all the parties opposed to the Rajiv Gandhi
government.
Soon, many regional parties rallied around the Janata Dal including the DMK, TDP, and AGP and formed the National Front. The five-party National Front jumped into the electoral fray in
1989 after joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the two communist parties - the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).
Janata Dal, National Front's largest constituent won.
After BJP leader L K Advani started the Rath Yatra on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue and was arrested in Bihar by state chief minister Lalu Yadav, the party withdrew support to the
VP Singh government. Singh resigned after losing the trust vote.
--------------------------------------------------------------
10th Lok Sabha (1991):
INC or Congress
PV Narasimha Rao of the Congress
Completed its full term
The two most important poll issues, the Mandal Commission fallout and the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue.
While the Mandal Commission report implemented by the VP Singh government gave 27 per cent reservation to the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in government jobs and led to widespread violence
and protests across the country by the forward castes.
Mandir represented the row over the disputed Babri Masjid structure at Ayodhya which the Bharatiya Janata Party was using as its major poll plank. The Mandir issue had led to riots in many
party of the country and the electorate was polarised on caste and religious lines. With the national Front in disarray, the Congress seemed to be on the comeback trail.
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam while campaigning at Sriperembudur. lead to sympathy votes to congress.
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11th Lok Sabha (1996):
A B Vajpayee - BJP
Deve Gowda - Janata Dal
I K Gujral - Gowda's Foreign Minister
Completed only 1 and a half years of term.
The Harshad Mehta scandal
The Vohra report on criminalisation of politics
The Jain hawala scandal
'Tandoor murder' case
These damaged the Rao government's credibility.
Gujral was a stopgap arrangement. The country would go to elections again in 1998.
Elections for 11th Lok Sabha resulted in a hung Parliament and two years of political instability during which the country would have three Prime Ministers.
--------------------------------------------------------------
12th Lok Sabha (1998):
BJP - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
413 days
The 11th Lok Sabha had a short life, lasting barely one-and-a-half years. The minority Inder Kumar Gujral government, the second by the United Front in 18 months since the May 1996 general
elections, collapsed on November 28, 1997 when the Congress, headed by Sitaram Kesri, withdrew support over controversy surrounding involvement in the 1991 assassination of Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi.
The 12th Lok Sabha was constituted on March 10, 1998, and a coalition led by veteran BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in nine days later. The 12th Lok Sabha had a life-span of 413
days, the shortest to date.
The dissolution came in the absence of a viable alternative after the 13-month-old Bharatiya Janata Party-led government was ousted by one vote on April 17. "+++This was the fifth time the
Lok Sabha was dissolved before completing its full tenure.+++"
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13th Lok Sabha (1999):
BJP - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Completed its full term
On April 17, 1999, Vajpayee lost a confidence vote in the Lok Sabha and consequently tendered the resignation of his coalition government. He cited a lack of cohesion in his 24-party
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as the reason. The BJP fell short of a single vote due to the withdrawal of one of their coalition partners, the AIADMK led by Jayalalithaa.
During the lengthy election campaign, the BJP and the Congress generally agreed on economic and foreign policy issues, including the handling of the Kashmir border crisis with Pakistan.
Their rivalry only boiled down into a personal confrontation between Vajpayee and the Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
The entry of Sonia Gandhi, a relative newcomer having been elected to the party presidency in 1998, was challenged by then Maharashtra Congress leader, Sharad Pawar, on the grounds of her
Italian birth. This led to a crisis within the Congress and the BJP effectively used this as an electoral issue.
The 1991, 1996, and 1998 elections saw a period of consistent growth for the BJP and its allies, based primarily on political expansions in terms of cultivating stronger and broader
alliances with other previously-unaffiliated parties.
The outcome which began on October 6 gave the NDA 298 seats, 136 to the Congress and its allies. Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister on October 13.
--------------------------------------------------------------
14th Lok Sabha (2004):
INC or Congress(I)
Completed its full term
These elections, compared to all the other Lok Sabha elections of the 1990s, saw more of a head-to-head battle between personalities (Vajpayee and Sonia Gandhi) as there was no viable
Third Front alternative. The fight was between the BJP and its allies on the one hand and the Congress and its allies on the other. However, regional differences emerged on the national
scene.
Most analysts believed the NDA, riding high on the feel-good factor and its promotional campaign 'India Shining', would beat anti-incumbency and win clear majority. The economy had shown
steady growth during the BJP rule and the disinvestment of PSUs had been on track. The Foreign Exchange Reserves of India stood at more than $100 billion (the seventh largest in the world
and a record for India). The service sector had also generated a lot of jobs.
The Congress, who was regarded as "old-fashioned" by the ruling BJP, was largely backed by poor, rural, lower-caste and minority voters that did not participate in the economic boom of
previous years that created a large wealthy middle class and thus achieved its overwhelming victory.
--------------------------------------------------------------
15th Lok Sabha (2009):
INC or Congress(I)
Completed its full term
Only to diminish the little hope left in hearts of people for a better society.
--------------------------------------------------------------
16th Lok Sabha (2014):
And yet again its BJP or Congress and the country is too busy being intelligent in getting one among the two.
Its not about getting the right Leader. It is about where we are getting him elected into.
Its not about getting the right Leader. It is about where we are getting him elected into.
After almost 60 years it utterly evident that the system could only be false. The government.
We are only trying to get the right leader into a false system.
The Indian constitution is the derived from the British and yet still in the British have Monarchy.
Doesn't this arise the very question in you?
Below is how and who the country has been electing for the past 60 odd years.
Out of 16 elections only 8 have Completed its full term.
1st Lok Sabha (1952):
Indian National Congress (INC)
April 17, 1952, lasted its full term till April 4, 1957.
--------------------------------------------------------------
2nd Lok Sabha (1957):
INC
The 2nd Lok Sabha completed its full term on March 31, 1962.
--------------------------------------------------------------
3rd Lok Sabha (1962):
INC
Completed its full term
Indo-Sino conflict of 1962
1956-57 construction of a Chinese military highway in the disputed territory of Aksai China just west of Tibet.
Widely criticised for his government's insufficient attention to defence, Nehru was forced to sack the then defence minister Krishna Menon and accept U.S. military aid.
Nehru died on May 27, 1964. Congress had elected a new leader, Lal Bahadur Shastri. succeeded by Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter.
Despite stiff opposition from veteran Congress leader Morarji Desai, Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister on January 24, 1966.
The party was going through internal crisis and the country itself was recovering from two closely fought wars. The economy was hurting, general sentiment was low.
--------------------------------------------------------------
4th Lok Sabha (1967):
INC
A mid-term election to the Lok Sabha was called for, a full one year ahead of schedule.
Indira Gandhi, elected to the Lok Sabha from Rai Bareili constituency, was sworn in as the Prime Minister on March 13.
In order to keep dissident voices at bay, she appointed Morarji Desai, who had opposed her candidature as PM after Nehru's death, as Deputy Prime Minister of India and Finance Minister of
India.
The party split into two factions: the Congress (O)-for Organisation-led by Morarji Desai, and the Congress (I)--for Indira-led by Indira Gandhi. Indira continued to head a minority
government with support from the CPI(M) till December 1970. Not wanting to head a minority government any longer, she called for a mid-term election to the Lok Sabha a full one year ahead
of schedule.
The country was set for the fifth general elections.
--------------------------------------------------------------
5th Lok Sabha (1971):
INC
Completed its full term
India-Pakistan war in 1971 that resulted in the liberation of Bangladesh. India's victory in December 1971 was hailed by all Indians as it came in the face of diplomatic opposition from
both China and the United States. There was hardly any international support from almost every other nation.
On June 12, 1975, the Allahabad High Court invalidated her 1971 election on the grounds of electoral malpractices. Instead of resigning, Indira Gandhi declared an Emergency in the country
and jailed the entire Opposition.
The Emergency lasted till March 1977 and in the General Elections held in 1977, she was routed by a coalition of parties called Janta Morcha. This was the first time that the Congress had
been dealt a bloody blow.
--------------------------------------------------------------
6th Lok Sabha (1977):
Janata Party. The Congress lost the elections for the first time.
Completed only 3 years of term.
Janata Party leader Morarji Desai, who had been released from prison two months before the elections, won 298 seats. Desai became India's first non-Congress Prime Minister on March 24.
The state of Emergency declared by the Congress government was the core issue in the 1977 elections. Civil liberties were suspended during the national emergency from 25 June 1975 to 21
March 1977 and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assumed vast powers.
Gandhi had become extremely unpopular for her decision and paid for it during the elections. Gandhi, on January 23, called fresh elections for March and released all political prisoners.
--------------------------------------------------------------
7th Lok Sabha (1980):
INC or Congress (I)
Completed full term
The Janata Party, an amalgam of socialists and Hindu nationalists, split in 1979 when Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) leaders A B Vajpayee and L K Advani quit and the BJS withdrew support to
the government.
Desai lost a trust vote in Parliament and resigned. Charan Singh, who had retained some partners of the Janata alliance, was sworn in as Prime Minister in June 1979.
Congress promised to support Singh in Parliament but later backed out. He called for elections in January 1980 and is the only Prime Minister not to have faced Parliament. The fight
between Janata Party leaders and the political instability in the country worked in favour of the Congress (I), which reminded voters of the strong government of Indira Gandhi.
--------------------------------------------------------------
8th Lok Sabha (1984-85):
INC or Congress (I)
Completed only 4 years of term.
Prime Minister Indira's Gandhi assassination on October 31, 1984, created a sympathy vote for the Congress. The Lok Sabha was dissolved after Indira's death and Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in
as interim Prime Minister.
Elections were announced for November 1984 and during the campaigning Rajiv reminded people of his family's contribution and portrayed himself as a reformer.
--------------------------------------------------------------
9th Lok Sabha (1989):
Janata Dal, National Front's largest constituent won
Vishwanath Pratap Singh became the 10th Prime Minister
Completed only 2 years of term.
1989 General Elections were fought with the young Rajiv cornered with numerous crises - both internal and external - and the Congress government losing credibility and popularity.
The Bofors scandal
Rising terrorism in Punjab
The civil war between LTTE and Sri Lankan governmenthe civil war between LTTE and Sri Lankan government
On October 11, 1988, the Janata Dal was formed by merger of Jan Morcha, Janata Party, Lok Dal and Congress (S), in order to bring together all the parties opposed to the Rajiv Gandhi
government.
Soon, many regional parties rallied around the Janata Dal including the DMK, TDP, and AGP and formed the National Front. The five-party National Front jumped into the electoral fray in
1989 after joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the two communist parties - the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).
Janata Dal, National Front's largest constituent won.
After BJP leader L K Advani started the Rath Yatra on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue and was arrested in Bihar by state chief minister Lalu Yadav, the party withdrew support to the
VP Singh government. Singh resigned after losing the trust vote.
--------------------------------------------------------------
10th Lok Sabha (1991):
INC or Congress
PV Narasimha Rao of the Congress
Completed its full term
The two most important poll issues, the Mandal Commission fallout and the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue.
While the Mandal Commission report implemented by the VP Singh government gave 27 per cent reservation to the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in government jobs and led to widespread violence
and protests across the country by the forward castes.
Mandir represented the row over the disputed Babri Masjid structure at Ayodhya which the Bharatiya Janata Party was using as its major poll plank. The Mandir issue had led to riots in many
party of the country and the electorate was polarised on caste and religious lines. With the national Front in disarray, the Congress seemed to be on the comeback trail.
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam while campaigning at Sriperembudur. lead to sympathy votes to congress.
--------------------------------------------------------------
11th Lok Sabha (1996):
A B Vajpayee - BJP
Deve Gowda - Janata Dal
I K Gujral - Gowda's Foreign Minister
Completed only 1 and a half years of term.
The Harshad Mehta scandal
The Vohra report on criminalisation of politics
The Jain hawala scandal
'Tandoor murder' case
These damaged the Rao government's credibility.
Gujral was a stopgap arrangement. The country would go to elections again in 1998.
Elections for 11th Lok Sabha resulted in a hung Parliament and two years of political instability during which the country would have three Prime Ministers.
--------------------------------------------------------------
12th Lok Sabha (1998):
BJP - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
413 days
The 11th Lok Sabha had a short life, lasting barely one-and-a-half years. The minority Inder Kumar Gujral government, the second by the United Front in 18 months since the May 1996 general
elections, collapsed on November 28, 1997 when the Congress, headed by Sitaram Kesri, withdrew support over controversy surrounding involvement in the 1991 assassination of Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi.
The 12th Lok Sabha was constituted on March 10, 1998, and a coalition led by veteran BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in nine days later. The 12th Lok Sabha had a life-span of 413
days, the shortest to date.
The dissolution came in the absence of a viable alternative after the 13-month-old Bharatiya Janata Party-led government was ousted by one vote on April 17. "+++This was the fifth time the
Lok Sabha was dissolved before completing its full tenure.+++"
--------------------------------------------------------------
13th Lok Sabha (1999):
BJP - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Completed its full term
On April 17, 1999, Vajpayee lost a confidence vote in the Lok Sabha and consequently tendered the resignation of his coalition government. He cited a lack of cohesion in his 24-party
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as the reason. The BJP fell short of a single vote due to the withdrawal of one of their coalition partners, the AIADMK led by Jayalalithaa.
During the lengthy election campaign, the BJP and the Congress generally agreed on economic and foreign policy issues, including the handling of the Kashmir border crisis with Pakistan.
Their rivalry only boiled down into a personal confrontation between Vajpayee and the Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
The entry of Sonia Gandhi, a relative newcomer having been elected to the party presidency in 1998, was challenged by then Maharashtra Congress leader, Sharad Pawar, on the grounds of her
Italian birth. This led to a crisis within the Congress and the BJP effectively used this as an electoral issue.
The 1991, 1996, and 1998 elections saw a period of consistent growth for the BJP and its allies, based primarily on political expansions in terms of cultivating stronger and broader
alliances with other previously-unaffiliated parties.
The outcome which began on October 6 gave the NDA 298 seats, 136 to the Congress and its allies. Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister on October 13.
--------------------------------------------------------------
14th Lok Sabha (2004):
INC or Congress(I)
Completed its full term
These elections, compared to all the other Lok Sabha elections of the 1990s, saw more of a head-to-head battle between personalities (Vajpayee and Sonia Gandhi) as there was no viable
Third Front alternative. The fight was between the BJP and its allies on the one hand and the Congress and its allies on the other. However, regional differences emerged on the national
scene.
Most analysts believed the NDA, riding high on the feel-good factor and its promotional campaign 'India Shining', would beat anti-incumbency and win clear majority. The economy had shown
steady growth during the BJP rule and the disinvestment of PSUs had been on track. The Foreign Exchange Reserves of India stood at more than $100 billion (the seventh largest in the world
and a record for India). The service sector had also generated a lot of jobs.
The Congress, who was regarded as "old-fashioned" by the ruling BJP, was largely backed by poor, rural, lower-caste and minority voters that did not participate in the economic boom of
previous years that created a large wealthy middle class and thus achieved its overwhelming victory.
--------------------------------------------------------------
15th Lok Sabha (2009):
INC or Congress(I)
Completed its full term
Only to diminish the little hope left in hearts of people for a better society.
--------------------------------------------------------------
16th Lok Sabha (2014):
And yet again its BJP or Congress and the country is too busy being intelligent in getting one among the two.
Its not about getting the right Leader. It is about where we are getting him elected into.
