1) Getting Brahmins ( and other upper castes ) co-opted to bring Dalits forward. This would ensure good brahmin and kayastha IAS officers do a good job of running the administration rather than corrupt caste based officers supported earlier by Mulayam. 2) Protection of bother upper castes and dalits from vicious middle castes who are extremely criminal oriented. 3) End of minority votebank politics. Mulayam could do nothing with all the muslim votes he gathered. 4) End of Ram Mandir movement and introspection by BJP as to why upper castes supported Mayawati than BJP. 5) Rajnath Singh is a poor leader and I think these elections will end his reign. Better leaders like Advani , Jetly , Sushma Swaraj will come up 6) Rahul Gandhi is hot air. Priyanka is a better bet.
RE:Beginning of a Golden era
by Inadvertently Human on May 11, 2007 10:45 PM Permalink
Ravi, 16 of 17 Brahmin MLAs have been faithful to her. Brahmins never create any problems and its the middle castes like OBC, MBC and BCs that create the violence against Dalits and Brahmins together. This might mark the beginning of the era where the Brahmins and dalits work toegher to protect Hinduism from radical forces. I agree with Anurag.
RE:Beginning of a Golden era
by Anurag Shrivastava on May 11, 2007 10:50 PM Permalink
the fear of the "yadavas" will keep them united for a long time. Mulalayam will push for Yadav- Muslim votes even more aggressively now which will be counter-productive. The Brahmins now realise what it is to be having a Dalit like status. But then as you said things can always change but my money for next 8-10 years is that this will hold.
RE:Beginning of a Golden era
by puneet bhatnagar on May 11, 2007 10:47 PM Permalink
Absolutely agree with you.. its a tremendous arrangement between dalits who are exploited on caste basis and harmless group of upper caste who are exploited on political basis.. a leader from backward caste like mayawati is much much better than spineless upper caste leaders..
BEFORE I USED TO MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE OF UTTAR PRADESH BUT THEY HAVE SHOWN MORE MATURITY THAN DEVELOPED STATES LIKE MAHARASHTRA TAMIL NADU KARNATAKA ETC..
RE:RE:Beginning of a Golden era
by on May 11, 2007 11:04 PM Permalink
Dear Anurag,
If Bjp wants to come out of shit firstly it has to stick to basics and second you have to have leaders who are percievd as committed to the basics 1.Ecconomy 2.Hindustan 3.BJP should stop thinking that only UP can give the leader.
It has to recognize the fact that narendra Modi is the leader who can galvanize things and revive BJP but BJP has to apologize to people When people bought them to power these felows wnted to go and sit in the lap of muslims.
