Election Result - an overlook

• There can be no better illustrate examples of election than the defeat of Union Law Minister Mr. Salman Khurshid's wife in his home turf despite his attempt to woo the minorities by promises of job quotas and the defeat of the Congress candidates in Gandhi family's strongholds of Amethi and Rae Bareli.
• The political space for national parties like the Congress and the BJP is shrinking. Correspondingly, powerful regional parties are getting more firmly entrenched in their respective terrains and are poised to play a greater and more eloquent role in shaping of the countours of the ruling dispensation at the Centre and its policies.
• The Congress will feel the tremors of this in the budget session.
• The sustained emergence of regional parties in large parts of India poses an existential challenge to the 'so-called' national parties, it does not necessarily pose a threat to politics of nationalism.
• The emboldened and regrouped regional political satraps like, West Bengal Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister (Jayalalithaa), Odisha Chief Minister (Naveen Patnaik), Bihar Chief Minister (Nitish Kumar) have given notice of confronting it on the question of dilution of the principles of federalism. They have successfully forced the UPA to put on hold policy decisions like NCTC, FDI in retail sector. These results will bound to strengthen their ranks and also SP and SAD may join with them.