Election results for the states including Tamil Nadu and West Bengal were announced Friday. It was no ordinary Friday: It was Friday the 13th. But for the women who were voted into power yesterday, it was a lucky day. Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress Party broke the long run of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who had been at the helm of the state for over three decades. Communist-led coalitions lost not just in West Bengal, but in Kerala as well. In Tamil Nadu, actress-turned-politician J. Jayalalitha's AIADMK swept the DMK out of power, a party which has been the focus of corruption allegations.
India Real Time presents a selection of editorials, commentaries and opinions on the state elections from Indian newspapers.
Political analyst Mahesh Rangarajan, began his Saturday editorial in The Times of India with an apt phrase from the bible – "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle/ O Jonathan thou wast slain in thine high places" – to comment on the loss of the CPI(M) and the DMK. Mr. Rangarajan wrote that the voters did more than just "unseat incumbent governments," adding that the results will force the parties to "rethink the fundamentals of its ideology" and lead many others to "ponder the perils of putting kin and clan in charge of p [...]
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