Reposting Anoops post again.

What are the Indian people thinking ?
Following the vote counting sessions online was frustrating and I was appalled and
disgusted at what happened. The results have cast a serious doubt on the credibility of the psephologists and they will have a lot of explanation to do. Exit polls predicting a near majority for the NDA and what happens..totally opposite. Now we have to contend with Sonia Gandhi as PM for the next painful 5 years. Come to think of it..Forget about their regime, I cant even see a competitive council of ministers for the Congress formed Governement.Though we can say that the anti-incumbency factor in each state has
affected the results of the center, I fail to comprehend what are the people thinking. Clearly the initiatives of the NDA Governement were right may it be the peace initiative with Pakistan, the nuclear weapons,"India shining" campaign,twin IT booms in their rule whatever. When the popular sentiment was so clearly with the BJP I fail to understand how they can lose so miserably.I can understand South Bombay voting for a young leader in Milind Deora because they must have voted for youth and dynamism. South Bombay needs no development work to be done any more. What is surprsing and probably the lowest ebb is a dummy like Govinda beating a seasoned veteran like Ram Naik who hasnt lost an election for the past 20 yrs and had done nothing wrong to lose this one either. I hate to even think that this is the unceremonious end to the regime of one of the most able prime-ministers India had ever seen and will ever see.Adieu Vajpayeeji and hope sanity returns 5 yrs from now !