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If you open reddit, you will see many folks complaint and cry about BJP winning and label is as EVM hacking or vote chori or whatever their half developed brain can come up with.

But then you see some very basic statistics and its clear that despite not being a very competent and life changing party, the BJP has been 10x better than Congress.

1. Electricity - This is the area where BJP has really managed to turn things around. Congress was so comically inept at bringing electricity to households that so many folks never had electricity and the ones who did, faced power cuts of close to 10-12hrs in the worst areas. BJP really changed things here for better. Load shedding is a thing of past in most states and electricity access has greatly expanded. Remember, nothing magical has happened over the past decade or so. Whatever BJP deployed to increase electricity access like solar power, wind, discom reforms etc. All this could have been pursued by Congress as well but their idiots were too busy doing corruption to even bother.
2. Infra - Highways were a joke in most parts of the country, now we see highways which can rival the Autobahn being inaugurated every other day. This has greatly helped reduce the cost of logistics and also cut down travel times. Again, no magic here. Just a government which actually wanted to do some infra capex unlike Congress which was too busy to appease electorate via minority schemes and other nonsense. Even the Dedicated Freight Corridor has greatly reduced congestion in several key railway stops. And places where the government didn't involve itself, like airlines, they allowed competent private entities to build world class airports - Bengaluru T2, Hyderabad Airport, Navi Mumbai Airport - all these are excellent airports which can rival their international counterparts.
3. Turning around PSUs - From BPCL to SBI, this government has made a concerted effort to turn around PSUs. And officers are being held way more accountable than before. I will agree that the average ICICI branch is still way better than the average SBI branch but there is way more accountability than before and digital banking initiatives of the government have reduced the need to even visit branches. Also, PSBs not handing out loans like candies has further strengthened the finance sector. Even BSNL is now close to turning a profit and absolutely gone cases like Air India were smartly sold off to private entities. I am sure some idiots would have rather preferred us tax payers bailing out Air India, so idiots like Rahul Gandhi could fly first class at sleeper class rates.
4. Inflation - Even though the recent West Asia crisis and the Russian war sent crude sky rocketing, this government has managed to keep inflation under control. I don't even remember when was the last time I saw someone complain about the price of onions which was a common feature during Congress' tenure.

There are some more things which this government has done which I am not covering but again, despite having a majority, BJP backed off a lot of times - farm laws, CAA, NCR, delimitation etc. So its not like BJP was just able to bulldoze things through parliament but the UPA and its clowns were so comically inept that just fixing the bare minimum caused such a massive uplift in this country's GDP growth rate and subsequent lifestyle of the rural folks.

No wonder BJP has won with such majority, people were so frustrated with the basic things not being fixed in this country under UPA that when a government did the bare minimum, they were all just taken aback and are like "If this bare minimum improvement can continue, my life is sorted". Just imagine what kind of absolute clowns and morons were there during UPA that BJP is able to gain so many voters by doing bare minimum

I see a lot of folks asking for referral here.

From what I have gathered, referrals don't really work at GS unless the hiring manager itself is referring you.

What usually works is that someone from GS HCM/HR team views your profile on Naukri and downloads your resume.

Once that resume is sent to hiring manager and he/she picks it up, that's where the interviews begin.

Anything except for the above barely works in my opinion. I have received 3-4 referrals till now and 1 of them was from a Executive Director but none of them worked.

2 times I got a call for an interview was usually because the GS HR/HCM viewed and downloaded my profile on Naukri 2-3 days back.

So all you can do is hope and pray that your Naukri profile/resume comes on HCM's radar and subsequently gets picked by the hiring manager.

A new trend that has started in Arranged Marriage (AM) is women complaining about the quality of men in the AM market. There are so many reels with millions of likes about the looks of men in AM or their personality etc.

Firstly, these women should at least acknowledge somewhere that they themselves are probably not that good and hence they themselves are in the AM market. So many of their friends have managed to find absolutely great husbands via dating, then why aren't they one of them?

Why did no one "pick" them in the dating market and put a ring on their precious little finger? Maybe cos you weren't good looking enough? So no guy wanted to date you? And if some guy did date you and still didn't marry you then that's even worse. It points to possible problems with your "personality" not being good enough. So if some guy never dated you for your looks or didn't marry you for your personality, who are you to judge a random man's personality or looks in AM?

Now some women will say their family is very strict and they have caste issues etc. If you come from such a regressive family then why are you complaining about the mentality of men or their families in arranged marriage? If your own family is so regressive, then how are you suddenly expecting super liberal and chill in-laws? 🤡 For all the talk about "patriarchy", what ultimately determines whether or not you can date in India is whether or not your family is okay with it. If your family was/is regressive and did not allow you to date then please don't take the moral high ground on the values of boy's family in AM. If your family did allow you to date and you found no one then that's fully on you by the way.

So I am a North Indian and finding a partner for AM has been an issue in almost all states in India.

But I feel the problem is far more acute in South India.

Whenever I see recommended posts from Hyderabad, Chennai or other similar South Indian subreddits, it is usually about how hard it is to find a girl and the folks in comments also agree.

I think part of it is because of better education of women and also more jobs for women in South.

But a lot of women in north are also educated and working but this problem is not so acute in North India.

Recently a video has gone viral whereby a bride was rejected by a groom's family because she want not earning.

And a lot of feminists have come out stating that men have become greedy etc. that they want the woman to earn, take care of the home and also kids blah blah blah.

What these women miss if that the reason this phenomena has begun is because literally 90% of women only want to marry in metro cities.

Almost all the women, even the ones who are living in towns and villages, only want to marry a guy working in the city. Folks who live in Tier 2 towns and villages are finding it impossible to get a girl.

And metro cities aren't cheap, you can't raise a family here on just one person's income, more so in today's era of AI driven layoffs and wage growth compression. So it is natural that men are seeking partners who earn as well so that the family is financially secured and comfortable. 2 salaries > 1 salary and even if 1 of them is laid off, the other member can earn until the first one finds a job again.

If these women are willing to marry a person in Tier 2 towns or villages then they will find enough suitors even if they don't work. These areas are still relatively cheap and they don't have the kind of white collar jobs which women can work securely and comfortably in. So the expectation of grooms in these areas to find a working woman is close to 0.

But guess who doesn't want to settle in Tier 2 towns and villages? Some Women.

And who is playing the victim card of men seeking earning wives? Some Women.

You can either bring money to the table and find a groom in a metro city or you can find a groom in a Tier 2 town/village. Either way finding a groom is not difficult. But finding someone to subsidize your lifestyle in a metro city is definitely going to be tough.

What's your opinion on this? Do you guys think that what I have written is wrong? Or isn't this just the reality? Men are willing to marry almost anyone in today's era considering the state of arranged marriage in India.