At the most, his appeal is among a limited number of Uttar Bharatiyas but that's okay. There is confusion among the Dalits and that's likely to affect the Congress. That's what itseems from the drawing rooms, as though the Dalit vote is going to split into many fragments, but that's not the reality at all. The Ambedkar and Gavai factions are with the Congress anyways. And, the Muslim vote is unlikely to go to the Samajwadi Party any longer.
Stability is a key issue and people are responding to it.
We cannot afford seven governments in as many years. In the last three years or so, we have lost six months every year because of elections. Imagine what it does to policy, welfare programmes, industry. Then, there's the Mumbai Urban Transport Project II that was approved in 1995 as a holistic project for the city but was sidelined by the BJP-Sena government to concentrate on flyovers. The flyovers were nothing but a route for them to make money.