%u201CWHO is the real winner in Gujarat elections?
BJP or Modi?
Who is the real loser?
BJP or Advani or Rajnath?%u2019%u2019
This was how some popular media icons were seen dissecting the Gujarat verdict in chaste English even as the Congress was being decimated.
The media sidestepped the electorate%u2019s verdict, and began to give its own political version about who was the real winner or loser among the victors!
The normal rule where elections are fought between two contenders is that one of them is the prospective victor and the other, the prospective loser. That is, if one wins, the other, without doubt, is the loser. Yet, even after results are fully and finally out in Gujarat %u2014 thanks to the media debate %u2014 it is not clear to the media who has really won and also who has really lost. Electoral numbers disclose the simple truth that BJP has won decisively and Congress has failed miserably. Victory, it is said, has many claimants. But, in BJP, the refrain of whosoever spoke for the party was along these lines: the Team BJP has won in Gujarat, with Advani as captain and Rajnath as his deputy, and Modi as the man of the match.
