[Reader-list] Why i am afraid of Mayawati?

[Rakesh]

Certainly not my opinion, but an opinion from a "middle-class, educated, 
metro-bred, Christian-education raised, young" journalist...
Salaam
Rakesh

Mayawati's historic victory has left me speechless. And scared. Her 
victory tells me once again how I, and people like me, have no voice in 
Indian politics anymore. We, the middle-class, educated, metro-bred, 
Christian-education raised, young. We, the backbone of the knowledge, 
entreneurial economy. We, who have no representation. We have no voice. 
We have no one who speaks our language, our idiom.

We are the people who rejoice every time Manmohan Singh takes stage. He 
is us. He is the success of education and middle class values rising to 
the top. Only, shudder, he failed to win a poll.

We, the non-vote bank. We, who must remember that Manmohan Singh rises 
because of Sonia Gandhi. Because of loyalty to the Family. We, who form 
no mass base.

For more read 
http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/40458/why-i-am-afraid-of-mayawati.html

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