The Prophecy of the ‘Game’
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 3rd Mar. 2018
With the electoral results out in the North-East, political Netas may once again turn in self-congratulatory mood. The ‘Game’ had predicted these results and much more and outcome seems to be broadly in line (http://www.managementparadise.com/article/9695/development-politics-timsland-gafrica-and-menak ). The followers of the ‘Game cult’ is none-the-less growing whether for the Netas in government or in opposition. It is therefore a happy surprise that politicians haven’t predicted anything yet on either the Banking scams or the storylines going around cases of potential gratification. Even the parties and Netas who are presumed to have been losing the round of ‘electoral warfare’ have largely refrained from making charges around malicious vendetta being the reason for loss, however there are still need to improvements which are being ignored ( http://www.managementparadise.com/article/9700/the-opposition-politics-top-down-doesn-t-work-is-yet-to-be-realized ). The Netas have largely decided that they won’t as well as their supporters also do not need to explain ‘receipts of payments’ and broad nature of the businesses as well as clientele for such businesses, and thus continued grounds of suspicion and this is true about all Netas rather than those of any specific parties, whether in government or in the opposition. Such Netas keep praying regards non-exposure of such information with the media in cohorts and their collegues largely maintaining a silent agreement posture. These are being punished heavily now-a-days but is still seem to be realized.
However, nearly all parties and Netas understand that what is needed on the platter of agenda to attract and keep voters glued (http://www.managementparadise.com/article/9733/emerging-contours-of-political-competition). The local Netas who draw their influence from being close the ‘battle worthy Netas’ want to stick to the 'agenda' and this gives them the flexibility to decide which party & Neta to support in actual electoral hustling. The local Netas are increasingly attempting to find issues around ‘Game factors’ (http://www.managementparadise.com/article/9666/the-debate-on-constitution-amp-legalese ) so that they keep ‘supporter base’ hooked to themselves and to keep themselves thus in the electoral ‘Game’. In spite of such ground level surge/mobilization, the senior or battle-worthy Netas are still trying to define or set a different agenda to their advantage with the ‘commercial news media (not all though, which is a definite 'change')’ in cohorts. This of course, will continue to expose the ‘political fault-lines’ and a huge increase in ‘floating votes’ for most of the areas. There is a sharp debate amongst ground-level workers this time, is likely to be a cause of ‘vote-shift’ but to capitalize upon the same networking with such political workers by NNetas well as parties will be required. The Parties and Netas would need to bolster their presence in such networks to capitalize upon such base and set expectations/perceptions in accordance to catch these 'floating political workers', and to keep them mobilized to their advantage and ensure that they don’t get adrift.
‘Game’ maintains its forecast ( http://www.managementparadise.com/article/9695/development-politics-timsland-gafrica-and-menak ). That there is likely to enough surge in voters to cause change from the current party in power in center in the North-Western belt from Kashmir to Goa as well as in Central India although an advantage for the ruling party in East as well as South. There is likely to be a razor-sharp difference in Karnataka as well as Chhattisgarh with a slight advantage to the ‘opposition to center’ although issue/perception of ‘corruption’ would continue to have a major role and this also includes the habit of not making any efforts to come out clean amongst Netas (e.g. payments not being denied or services rendered not being explained thus supporting perception of corruption or bank defaults continued being ignored/perennial re-structuring by those in government, resources being cornered etc.). Paying lip-service to Jobs or farmer issues would continue to fixed on as responsibility for Netas canvassing on the ruling party ticket and will need to be explained while canvassing for support even as the opposition tries to capitalize upon the ‘same issues’. Tough question politics is likely to get deepened with even the village level Netas getting engaged over the same as is already happening for most other parts where ‘opposition (i.e. those having a strong local ground presence rather than any specific party)’ trying to eke out benefit for them. There is more of a mixed results in most of the other parts of the country with Coalition government being forecasted as previous article. Let the ‘Game’ evolve…..
