Situation

Its fun watching news channels nowadays. You don’t know who’s gonna shake hands with whom admist camera flashes.

Wooing one another, “horse trading”, inviting independents to lunch, kids coaxing with Big Daddies over getting cabinets, people hopping from one party to another,special arrangements being made for those holidaying in the jails, opposition leader claiming that he has members from the rival party in his drawing room, Breaking news such as 'Maya casts Mayajaal', a 95 year old man bothered every now and then, new parties being formed, new principles being brought into light…blah blah

During the Karnataka elections , I came across a channel showing the profile of a local politician, where the verdict of the journalist was that the chances of the man winning dicy since he had oscillated between 2 parties so many times, that a poll showed confusion ruled the minds of the voters about which party he is presently enrolled in.

[As a child , once I asked my cousin that who are elected to the Rajya Sabha? His reply was, "Those who fail to get elected by the people , get elected by their own men"]

The news channels are in one of their busiest phase as ever.

So one local channel wanted to be out of the league by calling a physicist( to explain to the general public what exactly the nuclear deal is), an economist( the impact of the deal on economy), analyst and a filmstar ( you know, that X factor is always needed!) . That left a baffled anchor who usually is seen in a tete-a-tete with filmstars about gossips and stories suchlike.

A nationwide poll says 23% of the respondents are for the nuke deal, 13% are against , that leaves aside a huge 64 % possibly in the ‘can’t say’ option. Maybe they did nt know what IAEA stood for. In a country where people identify the president as some film actress of yester year( if [V] IQ is to be trusted i.e) , this nuke deal is really a non issue in commoner's mind.

Now, how exactly does this Confidence vote take place?

The word confidence stands for the vote showing confidence in the ongoing govt or is it that the vote is going to take place in confidence? Silly ques, still , I was wondering.

Do the MPs have to stand up and tell the Speaker about their choice or do they have the usual ballot box thing?

What if someone who promised to vote for one alliance,voted for another?

[to myself : “Shrug off your Roadies hangover”]

so, it’s a matter of couple of days, to know whose efforts paid off and who has the last laugh !

[to myself : Watch the ever- skipped Loksabha channel at the voting hour ]