People of UP are indeed intelligent. In the race of political fragmentation they are the torch-bearers. Other states will follow soon.
Post-independence India's political history has seen three phases.
Congress dominated the first phase spanning about 50 years, till the fall of PV Narsimha Rao. Socialism and pseudo-secularism were the two main pillars of Congress empire. By introducing economic liberalization PVNR destroyed on pillar. The other pillar could not hold Congress up. So it collapsed.
The second phase had rather short duration - from 1996 to 2004. BJP dominated with its own brand of Nationalist Hinduism. But due to some unknown reason, still undiscovered by our political pundits, its fortunes sank suddenly.
After 2004 Congress is back, but not as the old, powerful Congress. Now it is more like a big regional party which badly needs the support of political outfits of all hues and colours - except saffron - to survive. 2004 effectively marked the end of centrist politics in India. The coming years will see rapid rise of regional and caste-based parties. The Third Front will be a force to reckon with. But that political group will not have any permanent member. It will be opportunistic and dynamic alliance of all political parties other than Congress and BJP.
That is the future of India - demise of national politics and rapid fragmentation of mandate.
