Exit Polls

 (In a hurry to catch the post before the bugle is sounded for the Victory of the modern Messiah)

The exit polls have generated high decibel euphoric cry shattering the 48 hour silence preceding the last phase of 2014 Indian elections and announcing the triumph of Modi, the new Messaiah and his one-man year-long campaign to banish the Congress forever from the face of India.. All news channels have come with their exit poll findings and the difference among their calculations is  marginal while  giving an outright victory to BJP to emerge as the single party with the largest majority. What is left for the 16^th (the d-day for the announcement of the results) though every channel advertises its exclusive coverage of the poll results? The channels await the results only to see how far they can pat themselves for their accuracy in predicting Modi’s victory. It will be  Breaking News  all through the day followed by a marathon talk session among the studio panelists whose words of wisdom will be lost in the din that the Breaking News will let loose. The candidates will wait to see the margin of their victory or loss, either to burst crackers in this hot mid-summer or to fade far away with their mid-summer day dreams shattered. All of them will be preparing their two liners to speak on the microphone such as a victory of the masses , a victory for change, a victory for Modi, the Messiah, or with pretended humility accepting the verdict of the people. The spin doctors both on the side of the victor and the vanquished will come out either exalting the PM in waiting and singing paeans to him or wondering how their right party lost to wrong reasons. The voters will wait to congratulate themselves for holding the democratic  power in their hands to shape the destiny of the poll players.  They will have to wait for another five years or in the losers lament only for less than a couple of years to exercise their power to make or mar  the politicians..

With exit polls signaling a Modi victory, can the Congress dare hope for a modicum of success? The Modi acolytes  instead of remaining euphoric in victory have started feeling sorry for the vanquished for trusting  the ma-beta-beti combine for its ruination. They are actually doing the analysis for the poor Congress ,who according to them now stand orphaned as the  ma-beta-beti-jamaibabu combine will be banished  to wilderness in  Kandava prastha. The Modi-ites in all magnanimity tell the poor Congis ‘abandon all hope, you who enter the poll fray’ as no Arjun is  in sight to save you. In the same breath they add: ‘abandon all despair; the Messiah is on the throne’.  The tweets from Modi  votaries are less about their party and more about the missing prince of the Congress at his Mom’s farewell party to the good old man whose only virtuous sin was obedience to  her and  about how the intellect of  the Oxford educated economist was blunted by  Madam and how the aristocracy of the  duo -dynasty will henceforth be replaced by a single man and his oligarchy of ‘yes ministers’.

At the end of all this euphoric slanging on the TV sets and twitter sites as a prelude to the march of the Messiah into 7 RCR, a wimpish question arises within me what if exit polls are belied! Well with just 15 hours to go before the dance of democracy begins on the TV studios, will I be left alive to witness it or marauded and butchered for uttering a blasphemy against the modern Messiah!