Mayawati is lucky to be born in a star that served on a platter- name and fame. How else one would justify a woman born in such a low family where two ends meal was an aristocracy in itself and the most expensive asset, the family ever had was an old bicycle......... Mayawati therefore is a product of the most naked form of social disparity residing in the poorest of the poor and in the filthiest of the environment.
One would infer, a person from such a humble background having tasted what poverty is would turn around the swing once she becomes the all-powerful, one in all ruler of the state. Instead what we did see...............
1. Did we see poverty level diminishing?
2. Did we see justice being delivered to the most backward of the populace to which once upon a time Mayawati belonged?
3. Did we see atrocities on the SC/STs subsiding?
4. Did we see the rape of dalits culminating?
5. Did we see criminalisation of politics- a game of the past?
6. Did we see hooligans vandalising on the streets, taken behind the bars?
7. Did we see eve-teasing, (now that a dalit woman occupying the hot-seat) taken seriously?
8. Did we see corruption being held strictly?
9. Did we see exploitation of the dalits, of the kind Mayawati of yesteryears faced, being nipped in the bud?
10. Did we see road-rage by the power-hungry political wolves in decline?
11. Did we see the graph of naked display of muscle-flexing stooping down?
12. Did we see party tickets being sold for contesting on party symbol?
13. Did we see security of women and security in general improving?
14. Did we see the party headed by the victim of poverty laden childhood ....free from money-flounderers?
15. Did we see justice being met to the poorest of the masses?
16. Did we see money paid as ransom to the party for the survival of industrialists?
17. Did we see jobs being guarenteed to the jobless dalits?
18. Did we see money-flounderers being dealt with a heavy - hand?
19. Did we see Govt. officials not being harassed to pass contracts to their own coterie>
20. Did we see the state-exchequer being monumentally robbed by its protectors coming to an end?
21. Did we see elecricity and water reaching to the nook and corner of the state?
22. Did we see extortion from people in the name of party funds not a crime to be dealt with?
23. Did we see crores of the tax-payers money being floundered shamelessly in the name of One persons B'day bash?
24. Did we see the concept of gifts to the party which Ambedkar would scornfully desist --being taken so seriously?
25. Did we see thousands of crores spent on errecting monuments, a priority over hungary stomachs?
26. Did we see sycophancy, a disease of the rich politicians being a matter of the past?
27. Did we see slogan shouting of upper caste politicians any different from the so called dalit woman?
28. Did we see arrogance, egoism, hunger for money, naked use of power in any less measure in a dalit woman who climbed the stairs of emotion-exploitation than the previous upper-cast C.Ms.
29. Did we see justice metted to the Govt. officials being thrashed on the roads and murdered by party goons?
30. Did we see tickets not being given to criminal locals?
Well, none of this justifies Mayawati, whose being a dalit woman proved any differnt from the usual political clan over which she herself cried hoarse all this time, clamouring for justice to the downtrodden. Her penchant for getting into cheap limelight and using unsavoury language is quote well- known.
A woman who could have changed the political topography thus was lost in the sheen of lust and hunger for money,,,,or else how could she justify crores spent on a Tajmahal like palatial bungalow which her father is constructing ....a man who himself has been penniless all through.
Her stunts in befooling public seems to have lost all steam. After the usual ceremony of suspending, getting arrested or rusticating any of her party workers found violating law, Mayawati would cleverly put her same old hoodlums back to power-positions once the elections would be declared.
The woman who without being asked for, gave her unconditional support to the Congress Govt. in the centre after spewing venom throughout the elections is surely bereft of a sound political mind. The state which has to see the rape victims committing suicides in front of the Addl. Dir. Gen.'s office in order to get a case registered against the criminals, the State whose M.L.A.'s go on a muscle-flexing spree because a scooter touched their vehicle, a State where extortion rule the roost , a State where a Chief Engineer is publicly thrashed and killed and justice no where in sight, a State where the prestige of a rape victim is gauged by a few thousand rupees....... if that state is ruled by someone who herself has seen such shabby treatment met ted to the underprivileged, who being a dalit woman knows the trauma of being victimised.........if such a woman's performance is so dismal and no better than the once who have been ruling earlier.............. its nothing but a doomsday for the state and its populace.
In this background where there is no security and rule of law,,,,where money rules the roost.........what Rita Bahuguna has said although not accepted in decent society, nevertheless is a sharp and hard-hitting naked truth which if seen in the backdrop of what poor, hapless, victims are made to go through, even when a dalit is at the helm of affairs does make some sense.
If she would have arrested with such impunity all others who swear in her name to take law into their own hands and let atrocities rule the ground...............the day would never have come where she would have been subjected to such a low degree of comparisons. Not long back had someone commented about her insane and criminal looting of public-exchequer in the name of Ambedkar as a woman about whom nothing can be done if she herself decides to strip before public.
The power game is a time bound game......... Mayawati should sanely desist from such arrogant and head-strong attitudinal aberrations or else take a leaf from the recent past where laalu and Paswan who dreamt of becoming the Prime Minister had to bear the tight slap of time and shown their rightful place, or for that matter, has Mayawati herself forgotten the cheap and disrespectful language she used against the Father of the Nation, more when the great soul who fought for the kind of independence she is enjoying today is no more to even defend himself................Mayawati should bear in mind, it pains the same way when she hits others as much as it pains herself when others hit with the same intensity. Otherwise she should have the guts to eat the humble-pie and not act as the coward who frets insanely.
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