Indian polls and lessons for Pakistan

There are some parallels between India and Pakistan with regard to the claims about economic progress ie (a) growth in GDP 5.3 percent in the current fiscal and 6-7 percent and above in the coming years in Pakistan/ 8 percent current and increasing to 10 percent in the next two years in India, (b) foreign exchange reserves accumulation of over $12 billion-Pakistan/ over $100 billion in India, (c) low inflation rates in both the countries.
Despite this, the ruling BJP could not win the general elections because the benefits of the economic progress were usurped by the top 5 percent of the populace and the mass poor class remained deprived. Is there any lesson for Pakistan in the BJP's defeat?
In India, feudalism was eliminated immediately after independence and the political leadership emerged from the middle/lower middle class. Thus the common man can contest the elections and the voters are free to cast their votes according to their free will. In Pakistan, the political parties were usurped by the feudal lords and a few hundred families have been ruling the country since 1947.
The rural voters, which may comprise 70 percent of the voters, are under the strict grip of the feudals and have to vote according to their dictates.
Therefore, we see the same faces or the faces from the same families in our legislatures each time the election is held. Off and on, we see the military interventions and the ruling military junta deploy the agencies to obtain the desired results.
Obviously, this is normally done by getting hold of the powerful feudal lords. It is said that MMA's emergence in NWFP/Balochistan in 2002 elections was an exception and it was the result of government's manoeuvring.
In the late 1980s, urban Sindh endeavoured to bring leadership from the middle/ lower middle class but unfortunately the effort seems to have utterly failed as this leadership has not been able to deliver to the masses.
It has proved no different than other feudal dominated parties in extracting votes under coercion and is surviving on "chanda".
So the people of Pakistan have no lesson to learn from the recent Indian general elections for the simple reason that they are not yet so sovereign as to change the rulers through ballot box for the reasons earlier mentioned.