There is no doubt that the sweeping victory achieved by the Indian ruling coalition led by the Congress Party surprised all analysts and might have surprised the leaders of the Indian ruling coalition themselves. The opinion polls conducted before announcing the results of the elections stated that the ruling coalition and the opposition have equal opportunities in the election race which meant that any party of them could win and form a stable government. In spite of this mistake which was done by all the parties conducting opinion polls, followers of the political map in India might find an excuse for them. India is the largest democracy in the world. Suffice it to say that the number of voters there is 714 million from among a population of 1.16 billion. There are hundreds of political parries in a country where millions of citizens live under the poverty line. This makes it impossible to predict the direction and tendencies of the voters.

It is noteworthy that all the parties accepted the result of the elections once it is announced without raising doubts about it. BJP and the communist party admitted their defeat. This proves that the democratic practices are deeply rooted in the Indian society more than advanced countries. However, why did the ruling coalition achieve such a big history?

We can say that the secret lies in two main elements: the poor citizens and the young men. The Congress Party set up its strategy over the past five years to achieve comprehensive development in the rural areas to get millions of poor people out of their poverty and depravation through long-term development plans and directing huge investments to deprived regions, cancelling the accumulated debts of simple farmers in addition to applying the economic reform plans in a way that does not do harm to the lower classes of the society. The head of the government, Mr. Manmohan Singh, is a clever economist who managed to save India from the risks and fallout of the global financial crisis. The second element is related to the dependence of the Congress Party on the votes of young men. Rahul Gandhi, who enjoys a sweeping popularity, managed to get these votes. Thus, the ruling coalition managed to collect all the winning cars that qualified it to achieve a sweeping victory.

At a time when the Congress Party focused on all classes of the Indian people, the opposition adopted a strategy for rekindling the extremist national feelings. Even Varun Gandhi, one of the ancestors of Gandhi, and one of the candidates of the BJP used to instigate Hindus against Muslims which led the police to arrest him.

Thus the ruling coalition in India achieved victory because it depended on the poor and young men while communist parties lost due to clinging to stagnant political and economic thoughts and the Hindu parties used extremist feelings as a tool. Shall others learn this lesson?