In a response to a wikileaks cable, TP Srinivasan, a career babu has said that MK Narayanan has higher credibility than Timothy Roemer. TPN is forgetting that Narayanan was associated with one of the most corrupt regimes India has known. Roemer does not have that to his name. Mayawati wants Julian Assange in an mental asylum. Predictable responses indeed.Wikileaks are a double-edged sword. On one hand they have put covert operations and operatives’ lives in jeopardy. On the other hand they have revealed what the media can and will not leak. The Indian media would rather be spreading lies about Bhai Narendra Modi than speak the truth about people like Mayawati. Shame on them! From the perspective of Ram Chandra Bhartiya, Julian Assange is a godsend who is revealing about our leaders that even bad Bollywood movies are wont to show.
Who would think of sending a private jet to Mumbai to fetch a pair of shoes? That sounds like Imelda Marcos. Who would build a private road from their residence to their office to avoid traffic? Sounds like Kim Jong-Il. Who would punish other public servants with sit-ups or force them to clean their shoes? Sounds like the villain from Manmohan Desai movies. Who would employ nine cooks and two food tasters? For answer to that you may have to go back to ancient Egypt and look at Cleopatra.
And yet all these and other acts of extreme corruption were not committed by a third world dictator! They were committed by an elected MLA / Chief Minister in the world’s biggest democracy. Our own Behenji, the champion of the downtrodden and the weak- Mayawati. A very cruel joke indeed!
Either something is wrong with the concept of democracy or people who enable this form i.e. the voters. Democracy is a successful concept and better than any other as shown by many countries including our own sometimes (people still sticking with Narendra Modi despite of all the disinformation). By implication, the other answer must be right. In democracy we deserve the government we elect. People of UP have elected Mayawati multiple times and before that Mulayam Yadav. Wow! That is the power of seduction and caste politics. The UP voters have repeated voted against their own interests. But this kind of criminal naïveté is not endemic to UP voters. Look at people of Bengal (or shall I say Poschim Bongo) who voted for the commies for over three decades. What about the people of the state with highest literacy? Keralites are still voting for the commies. Bihari voters were also guilty but have since rectified their electoral missteps.
Point is that it is the voters’ responsibility to not fall for regional or caste politics and elect people they would not normally let in their homes. It is the responsibility of the media to accurately show the true nature of our politicians. I would urge the politicians to look in the mirror once in a while but that would work for people with a sense of honor. People like Mayawati who hide behind the “dalit ki beti” card and shamelessly indulge in militant minorityism cannot be expected to be shamed. She will continue to do what she does and so will the voters of UP. She will be back. Maybe the voters of UP need to look into the mirror.
Acouple of articles on the topic can be read at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mayawati-sent-empty-jet-to-Mumbai-for-sandals-WikiLeaks/articleshow/9870389.cms
http://www.ndtv.com/article/wikileaks-revelations/wikileaks-mayawati-s-eccentric-paranoia-included-9-cooks-2-tasters-131434
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