05-11-2007, 06:38 PM
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What is most surprising is Mayavati's decisive victory. No one quite saw that coming. It may actually be good for UP to have a single party govt rather than congress ruling by proxy under president's rule.
And as Rajesh pointed out, it appears that Brahmins voted as a block for Mayavati.
Very interesting implications for caste politics.Â
This will challenge the conventional wisdom that only groupings that vote as vote banks arre religious minorities or OBCs and dalits.
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I think a Brahmin-Dalit alliance is a good thing for Hinduism. Such an alliance is the EJ's nightmare.
Yogendra Yadav appeared pretty upset at the suggestion that Brahmins voted for Mayawati, he first tried to play it down claiming the percentage of Brahmins who voted for Mayawati was the same as the perecentage of the other upper castes who voted for her, then he claimed only poor Brahmins voted for Mayawati, and then finally said she only asked for Brahmin votes to convince others she had changed.
Yogendra Yadav realizes what this election means, upper caste Hindus form a votebank in UP. They will not be taken for granted.
I see this as a step towards greater Hindu mobilization.
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->What is most surprising is Mayavati's decisive victory. No one quite saw that coming. It may actually be good for UP to have a single party govt rather than congress ruling by proxy under president's rule.
And as Rajesh pointed out, it appears that Brahmins voted as a block for Mayavati.
Very interesting implications for caste politics.Â
This will challenge the conventional wisdom that only groupings that vote as vote banks arre religious minorities or OBCs and dalits.
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I think a Brahmin-Dalit alliance is a good thing for Hinduism. Such an alliance is the EJ's nightmare.
Yogendra Yadav appeared pretty upset at the suggestion that Brahmins voted for Mayawati, he first tried to play it down claiming the percentage of Brahmins who voted for Mayawati was the same as the perecentage of the other upper castes who voted for her, then he claimed only poor Brahmins voted for Mayawati, and then finally said she only asked for Brahmin votes to convince others she had changed.
Yogendra Yadav realizes what this election means, upper caste Hindus form a votebank in UP. They will not be taken for granted.
I see this as a step towards greater Hindu mobilization.