Captain Gopinath's campaign

The ultimate new age campaign. I get alerts on facebook, emails from friends of friends, micro posters at auto stands from volunteers.....targeted. Bangalore South is the part where the majority of the software companies are. New businesses and apartments to house these new business employees. His is a known name and it is totally possible that he will win, if he gets his name out to the non-apartment dweller, poor people (domestic workers and lower middle class), etc.

My maid and her large family now know about Captain Gopinath. And I plan on talking more about him in any of my circles. When you get into the details, you find that a 'delimitation' exercise has happened - meaning constituencies have been redrawn all over India. Am sure this is an off-shoot of vote bank politics that has benefited some and disadvantaged others. Heard talk that Deve Gowda's vote bank was reduced in his constituency.....will he actually have to work this time to keep a seat? Wouldn't that be super cool?! After all the machinations and behind the scenes political gaming, it will be poetic justice for him to lose in the elections!

I am clear on my destiny in this elections....thanks to my in-laws starting the process for us before we returned to India, we were some of the very few returning NRIs who got a voter ID within a month of landing here. And we have used it so far....to vote and as photo id. More as photo id, but that is the nature of the game.

Thanks to that, we actually vote in Bangalore South. I found out that a lot of geographical Bangalore South is actually Bangalore Rural for voting purposes. April 23rd is the V day - anyone interested in DOing better be voting...otherwise, our other national pastime of complaining is called 'whining'! :-D