Monday, August 18, 2008

Mayawati, the Maverick

This is a starting of a series of views on the politicians in India and my views about them. I can't help but to write about this maverick of a politician, who is making ripples in the Indian political arena.

Mayawati is the most uncouth, corrupt, devoid of decency and decorum you can ever find in in the history of Indian politics, in spite of her high educational achievements. She is a trained lawyer, was a school teacher, aspired to be a civil servant and so on, but this does not reflect on her stature of a high ranking politician, she is absolutely crass and loud. Maybe it is the way she wants to project herself and I don't agree with that because education instills some degree of refinements in a person. She takes pride in her short lived government with the support of the BJP in the past and claim that if she can become the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for four times, then she can become the prime minister of this country. If you take that statistics in consideration I think Karunanidhi has qualified himself many times more than her.

She is corrupt to the core and has assets worth Rs. 52 crores. She has distributed her wealth among her relatives and in spite of the Supreme Court pulling up the Central Bureau of Investigation for the status of the disproportionate assets cases, still the cases are to be brought to a logical end. The election commission requires every candidate to furnish details of his or her assets and the sources, but she has stood elections and won from when her wealth was at Rs. 1.1 crores to 11 crores to now 52 crores. She banks on her status as a dalit and takes advantage of it to the hilt. She should be arrested and a judicial enquiry should be formed to look into the disproportionate assets case.

I don't know what pride she takes in being a dalit's daughter, even if the others do not want to call them with caste names, they just want to remind everyone they are still dalits. The want to keep this status as long as possible to gain maximum mileage. Do you think she really wants to uplift clan? No. She needs to keep enforcing that they are oppressed and want to maintain that status quo.

She has brought down every standard set by the other preceding Chief Ministers and other politicians and created new unholy and disastrous trends in Indian politics. She cannot claim that it was only because of Ambedkar or Kanshi Ram played the very important role in the upliftment of the dalits, there are a lot of other humanitarians who have played a pivotal role and call it natural process, no one can be oppressed for long. She wants to preserve the dalit territory to herself and gain maximum mileage out of it.

Her statues are an eyesore in the horizon, I don't know how low can she get by installing more and more statues of her across UP. This maverick should be reined in or the nation would go into another spell of misrule and widespread corruption.

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