Post Elections 2006 - What did HE say?

Elections are over, one set of people are partying while the others are hiding their humiliation. In Tamil, there is a saying "Ooru rendu pattaa kuthaadiku thaan kondaattam". Who could be kuthaadi in this case? Any guesses? I feel it is the news channel. Most of the news channels brought the charismatic leaders of both the winning and the losing parties to analyze the results. While the winning side could speak anything, even nonsense, which would not be scrutinized, the losing side has to find the best words because the show anchor as well as the winning parties are going to pass comments if they blabbered. Thus, the entire day passed with no boredom.
But one interesting comment that I heard was from a leader, who is also a very eminent economist. He said that the results were a victory to the secular forces. I was left wondering as to what he meant exactly. Look at this scenario: In West Bengal, the Communist party won the election against Congress, which came second. In Kerala also, it was the victory for the communists over the Congress party. Assam was an exception where Congress emerged as the single largest party. In Tamil Nadu, the DPA coalition won against AIADMK's coalition. In all the states, there was absolutely no talk about secularism or communalism. In West Bengal and Kerala, if one were to interpret our leader's statement, could we say that the Left party is secular and Congress is communal? In Tamil Nadu, no one could term AIADMK as communal. So, what prompted our leader to say those words. Well, I do not have an answer to it. But all I could say is that the minds of certain section of people in this country is strongly affected by the agenda of the parties affiliated to hindutva. If the perceived agenda is real or imagined is for people to think!