Re: Global Competitiveness report 2015:
But it is not just rural areas, the urban areas votes along the same lines.
Also, all parties are pretty much alike when it comes to competence and their backgrounds really. Even the ‘lone’ party you left out of your list has old turncoats that were part of the other parties you mentioned and business kingpin (chowdries) with vested interests and I personally don’t expect this report you highlighted to have been anymore different than what it is now if by some miracle they came to power instead of their old comrades in power.
To me, among the i) political lot none of them are worth glorifying as a collective, and the same goes for the ii) judiciary and iii) military despite the fact that recently all three are actually finally doing what they are supposed to be doing. Hopefully, it’s up hill from here provided we let the process run its course without a decade of another dictatorship.