I was watching NDTV's panel discussion on Mayawati unveiling her own statue. Here is a prologue to that discussion: To a question on why she wasted so much of tax payers money, she retorted back with an absolutely irrelevant answer. She infact released a booklet in a press conference which detailed how the Congress and the BJP are not the parties that Dalits should look forward for. She came up with issues like why a dalit-ki-beti can't become the PM of the country under congress' regime.
Whaaw, what a trap! Even the best of the journalists like Sreenivasan Jain of the NDTV have fallen for it. Nobody discussed on unvieling her statues; rather this discussion went on to caste politics. I saw almost a repeat of it happening with Sagarika Ghoshe' panel in the CNN-IBN an hour later. Any politician ready to criticise her unvieling of statues is bound to get questions based on caste politics, from the media. In this way the main issue would trivially be sidelined for a sensitive issue. Especially with diplomacy being the order of the day. Utter brilliance! Mayawati has exposed and skillfully made use of the fragility of the indian politics. She deserves a statue for this :P
After being successfully able to con the media and shut the mouths of the rest of the politicians (this issue came up yesterday, there was no mention of it in the news today), I very much want to wait and see how this dalit-ki-beti is going to con the supreme court. Quite an interesting battle on cards! If she can successfully pull it off, I will be more than happy to visit all her 50 statues and pay my tributes :P.
