Done with the campaign trail with Jyotiraditya Scindia in Guna. He is going to win anyways. The beauty of democracy is that even when you know that the person against whom you are contesting an election is going to win, you still contest. Why? When you know that you are going to loose why contest at the first place?
Well my take is--and that is why I call it the beauty of democracy--that the meaning of victory is different for every contestant. In Guna If Jyotiraditya Scindia manages to increase his victory margin the victory would have a different meaning. In the 2002 by-election he had won by over 4.5 lakh votes but that time he was riding high on a sympathy wave after his father's death in a plane crash. Two years later in the 2004 general elections his margin got reduced to around 80,000 votes. Now if the BJP candiddate Narottam Mishra manges to reduce Scindia's victory margin to less than 50,000 his defeat would be no less than Scindia's victory.
But at the end of the day Jyotiraditya Scindia will represent Guna in Parliament. And he should. Whatever his victory margin.
