The real flip side of the Mayawati win is that it is again a win for the caste based politics. When will our democracy become issue based rather than caste or class based? Till the time we reach that maturity, our democarcy will remain a banana democracy. However, Mayawati, apparently is the best option from UP. It will be an uphill task from her side to bring this backward state on par with the progressive southern and western states.Hope unlike her predecessors, better sense will prevail and she will try to do that rather than appeasing cate/minority factors.
