Wonder how many of the people in these meetings were bought! Mayawati or Mulayam or Sonia, there will probably be no respite for the poor citizen- UP or any other place. This is reality.
Just look at the UPA (in reality Congress), what have they done against inflation, even though,according to Congress, they lost in important states due to inflation? Inflation has been prevalent for a few months now.
RE:Sonia vs Mayawati
by Anand Selot on Apr 18, 2007 04:56 AM Permalink
what about BJp? they also buy people for election rallies. they are no different from the others.
RE:RE:Sonia vs Mayawati
by Kaushik Das on Apr 19, 2007 10:58 AM Permalink
Yes, it is true that BJP also buys crowds but I have attended a speech of their leader once and I was astonished to see that many people were genuinely interested. They were not bought or brought. So, BJP does this a bit less than others. Congress is particularly notorious in this and the erstwhile rallies and even a 'maha railla' in Patna during laloo's rule were worst. I once asked a guy in the procession what he was protesting / supporting. He didn't know what the issue was. He was promised 35 rupees and brought in a bus along with others from a remote village in Bihar. . Basically, as long as people are impressed with a 'show of strength', crowds will be bought. Also, many leaders are often exclaiming in front of the media that their leader pulls more crowds and other leaders fail in this. In order to prove this in this stupid game of oneupmanship, they resort to such tactics. The only show of strength should be the elections and nothing else.
