Indian political leaders and bureaucrat

[Capt M Kumar]

In the past few days, Ms Mayawati’s “garland of currency notes” and police inquiry into an alleged bee attack on a BSP public meeting in Lucknow have brought the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister into the centre of a fascinating debate on attitudes.



Her adherents and sections of ‘progressive’ intellectuals have contended Ms Mayawati’s ostentation has to be seen in the context of the oppression of Dalits for thousands of years. When the ordinary Dalit observes Ms Mayawati’s grand statues, lavish birthday parties and currency-note indulgences, he apparently experiences a sense of pride. He feels, so the argument goes, the equal of upper caste folk whose political leaders have been behaving thus for years.

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