06-10-2005, 03:15 AM
Very amusing.
This just shows that no caste grouping by itself can win UP (or even Bihar). But the fact that Mayavati is wooing Brahmins suggets that in her mind Brahmins appear disenchanted with Congress as well as BJP, their erstwhile favorite parties.
I just had a funny thought! Brahmins as a whole are more than muslims in UP. If they start voting en-block, then we can see even a madder rush to garner the brahmin vote bank. May be a future Arjun Singh clone would offer to reserve 50% seats in select universities for Brahmins. Paswan, a highly secular(?) leader, thought that a necessary and sufficient condition for a good CM for Bihar should be that he should be a muslim, no matter if he had no political acumen or leadership and vision. We may see a Paswan clone demanding a brahmin CM even if only thing he could do was to blow the conch shell.
This just shows that no caste grouping by itself can win UP (or even Bihar). But the fact that Mayavati is wooing Brahmins suggets that in her mind Brahmins appear disenchanted with Congress as well as BJP, their erstwhile favorite parties.
I just had a funny thought! Brahmins as a whole are more than muslims in UP. If they start voting en-block, then we can see even a madder rush to garner the brahmin vote bank. May be a future Arjun Singh clone would offer to reserve 50% seats in select universities for Brahmins. Paswan, a highly secular(?) leader, thought that a necessary and sufficient condition for a good CM for Bihar should be that he should be a muslim, no matter if he had no political acumen or leadership and vision. We may see a Paswan clone demanding a brahmin CM even if only thing he could do was to blow the conch shell.