Buyer's remorse is the sense of regret after having made a purchase. It is frequently associated with the purchase of an expensive item such as a car or house. It may stem from fear of making the wrong choice, guilt over extravagance, or a suspicion of having been overly influenced by the seller.
When UP voters chose Samajwadi Party over all others, I knew where it was going to lead. I knew that because I do not fall for the media / politician claptrap. I also believe in learning from the history. I also believe that people may learn to modify or hide or control their true nature but they NEVER change. SP mandarins (read Mulayam and his close friends) put Akhilesh Yadav in the front because he presents a newer more sophisticated look which has been honed by education overseas (something Mulayam does not support for others’ kids). However, the decision makers are still the same. This arrangement fooled the gullible UP voters.
So have the UP voters started to feel some of that buyer’s remorse yet? Probably not because the capacity of the people of UP to silently suffer is enormous. We all saw how within days of the Yadav takeover of UP, the gundaraj came back. We wrote about this on our blog. One of the stalwarts of SP, Amarmani Tripathi is in jail for heinous crimes. However, like in Hindi movies, jail is no impediment for this man. He comes and goes as he pleases. A banquet in Lucknow for Pranab Mukherjee was attended by Mukhtar Ansari and Vijay Mishra who are in jail. Such is the power of these “tainted” SP politicos. Clearly, either Akhilesh is on the same page as his father or he is powerless. Either way, the UP voter is the loser here.
Mulayam Yadav fancies himself as the guardian of Muslim interest in the world – yes – world (SP held a rally in UP for Iranians). However, in less than six months of “secular rule” in UP, two significant Hindu-Muslim riots have happened. Of course the median and the liberals are silent on the topic. In a related topic, which is of no significance to the pseudo secular brigade, there have been no Hindu Muslim riots in Gujarat since the Post Godhra Massacre riots i.e. over a decade.
In knee jerk reaction to these events, which are rather familiar occurances in UP, over 3000 senior government, officials have been transferred. God only knows what these transfers do. Incompetence is not a function of one’s milieu. Moreover, IAS officers seem to perform better in states with better governments. So it stands to reason that the politicians in charge of the state are really the root cause of the problem.
I still have hope. If people of Bihar and Poschim Bongo can eventually make the right decision, then there is hope for UP yet. The first sign of buyer’s remorse is that the BJP won nine out of twelve Mayoral elections in UP. So, we are certainly hopeful!!
http://in.news.yahoo.com/communal-riot-add-mulayam-akhileshs-headache-090945873.html
http://www.theindianherald.com/2012/06/pratapgarh-riot-dm-sp-removed-for.html
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/amarmani-tripathi-is-still-free-to-walk-out-jail-at-will/1/201902.html
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