Yes Setu Madhavan, I would be rather glad to respond to this question of yours. First of all if u look at the precedents that led to it's downfall,you will be able to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and get a better picture. United Provinces as Uttar Pradesh was called at the time of Independence was considered amongst the best states- second in ranking from the top in India. The Problem started much later when most of the taxpayers money from UP started flowing to other states. UP has given several Prime Ministers to India- the entire Nehru Family and Atal Behari Vajpayee being the most prominent of those so it's not just about Mulayam and Mayawati; when these politicians pre-1990 were winning elections in UP, they used to disappear altogether only to show their faces in the next elections.The three biggest downslides in UP were the Emergency,Mandal and the Mandir episodes. This might raise quite a number of brows but even though all these episodes had a impact on India as a whole, they had a tremendous impact on UP in particular. With emergency came corruption, half of the bureaucrats started using public funds to gain political support in the most politically active state...this flowed down to other sectors and this was the time when licence raj was at its height. Still things were't that bad. Later came Mandal and even though it might or might not have had a positive effect on other parts of the country,it had an adverse impact in UP. It also led to the rise of Mulayam who uses OBC vote bank and Mayawati who uses SC/ST vote bank in this state, this was coupled by BJP which all of a sudden became a mouthpiece of hardcore upper caste politics and Congress found a new vote bank-Minorities and also the Intellectuals who were left few in number as many had fled the state and even the country as soon as the conditions started becoming dismal.Every party promised to protect a certain section of society turning it into a feudal system rather than a democratic setup. Then the Mandir issue, well the ones who came to do the job were not from UP, but Lord Ram was born here then they had to come, break Babri which led to massive riots and massive encampments of various sections of society. It is this state now in which casteism and communalism is at its worst, thanks to the politicals experiments of the big-wig politicians. The Vaccum was never filled. U have to choose between the Criminal and a Corrupt Minister which one do you choose? Well you choose the Corrupt one first so that he can extort money as bribes and can live on public funds, then u want to get rid of him/her but u have no option, so u vote for the Criminal.He then kills you and takes your house and all your money away. The Intellectuals have already left the state in dispair,many of them are in different states or even in different countries of the world.Investement doesn't take place here cause' who wants to mess with the Corrupt and the Criminals? So nothing on that side. Left are the still sane people from all classes and sections of society who want to leave this entire fiasco and lead a normal life which they can't over here so for them the only option is leave the state. If BJP or Congress wins the next elections, like always they wont do anything. The people of UP thought of new options, wanted new players who made big promises which happened to be a pack of lies, so for politicians and politics as a whole, this is just a landscape from where they enter big Politics at the centre, they don't need to do anything for this state, afterall no one else would do either.And when a guy from UP, might be a student, a labourer,a businessman or an intellectual wants to leave this feudal system then he is a Bhaiyya elsewhere only to be smashed up. It was our money that the politicians stole and invested elsewhere and when a person from UP or Bihar goes to these very places, kaboom. students from UP enter a Pune station, smashed up by Shiv Sainiks, labourers from Bihar working in Assam gunned down. and then u hear the great talk from people from the rest of the country about UP. How would it feel to others if I say that the British entered through Bengal and Madras because people over there(Mir Jaffer) were so corrupt they could'nt give up the idea of taking a few bribes by some foreign trading comany and sell their own country? At least people of Awadh fought, these people who abuse people from UP as Bhaiyyas and Behenjis might be knowing of Hazrat Mahal, if not Rani of Jhansi, Bundelkhand. might have heard of that. if not Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi,Rajiv Gandhi,Atal Behari Vajpayee-they might have heard these names. But then who cares? No one. One who is not from UP can talk big, one person once said why don't you stand in elections in the movie Yuva...come over here stand and get killed before elections take place or get killed after the elections so that bi-elections take place or better leave the state, be called a Bhaiyya and get smashed up elsewhere.So we are immigrants in our own country, for marathas,for tamils and for the rest. Immigration means when a person goes to another country, EU,US and all the immigration debate but in India, a person from a State of the Union of India is considered an immigrant if he goes to another state.And if he stays here, makes an honest living, a person comes with a gun in his hand and to hell with the living part.BUT I am still proud of my state cause' it is my home.
