Change or status quo? Reading the many interpretations of election outcome

Amid the narrative of change, there seems a deeply conservative preservation of the status quo; major change is reserved for Lutyens Delhiites in their new avatar as Khan Market gang, writes T N Ninan

The elections are over, and it is time to assess the interpretations of the outcome. The message from the voter is said to be anti-elitist; an expression of hope by the aspiring; endorsement by beneficiaries of the Modi government’s programmes; and a victory of the culturally rooted over the deracinated. It may be all that and more, but in the story-line of seminal change it is instructive to see whom the victors are targeting — and who they are not.
 
We have left behind the Left vs Right debate. The Left has been decimated, and there is no serious