22 April,2009 07:52 AM IST | | Mufeed Mahdi Rizvi
The Indian Premier League and the Indian Political League are running neck-to-neck in the race for being the event with the most uncertain outcome. After all, uncertainty is playing a huge role in both cases. While
rain has played spoilsport with the IPL, delimitation could spoil the chances of many politicians.
For IPL, it's a new venue, a new audience, a new atmosphere and new pitches. For politicians, it's a new constituency with new voters, while the voters have new candidates. The re-drawn boundaries of a constituency can re-draw the political scenario of the country.
Everything is new, except the issue. While the BJP is back with Ram, the Congress is acting secular as usual.
The Congress is once again backing Manmohan Singh as its prime ministerial candidate while the BJP desperately wants its PM-forever-in-waiting L K Advani to sit on the most desired chair.
Nevertheless, Advani's WEAK prime minister tirade against Manmohan Singh is fast becoming an international mantra. The other day, French president Nicolas Sarkozy called Barack Obama a WEAK president.
Forget that. The issue before the first phase was Advani calling Manmohan a WEAK prime minister. A WEEK after the first phase, Advani is looking to get the black money stashed abroad back home.
I have always said this and will reiterate no opinion poll or political pundit can predict the outcome of this Lok Sabha election. The key, this time, will genuinely be in the people's hands. Of course, everyone knows for sure it will be a hung parliament.
A similar situation in 1996 made A B Vajpayee the PM for 13 days. And I am sure Manmohan Singh will pray Advani faces a similar fate. But Singh would want the NDA government, with Advani as prime minister,
to stay in power only for seven days. Why?
So he can then call him a WEEK prime minister.
