Election results have an inevitability, a closure once they are announced. As it played outYet reading about a result and watching it over TV gave you two separate understandings of it. So the first wager of this election is the future of the Congress as an aggregator of Opposition votes. As the TV announces results and voters play commentator, every living room becomes a debating club where India plays at psephology. It asks democratic India to see elections as a rule game with protean possibilities.

Source: The Hindu December 12, 2018 18:32 UTC