India should dread the prospect of being governed by the dictatorial Mallika-e-Hindustan!
That will be the last pound of flesh Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh wish to extract for the support they are giving the dying Congress party. Fortuitously, the Congress too wants a similar outcome.
The demolition of Sahara Shahar's illegal encroachments is symbolic. The real assault will be executed at the right psychological and emotional moment, in true Mayawati style. Make no mistake.
A strong-willed administrator, she takes quick decisions. Recently, she sanctioned the Taj Expressway, which will drastically cut the travel time from Delhi to Agra to two hours. The chief minister has also envisaged the Ganga Expressway, an 8 lane expressway, running over 1,100 km, across the entire state, from Greater NOIDA up to Ballia.
Mayawati may not be thrilled to compromise and subdue her vaulting prime ministerial ambitions. Her BSP organisational machinery is just a little short of becoming an all-India one. Alleged corruption may trigger off anti-incumbency forces. Therefore, she has no choice -- at least, not this time.
Mayawati was, pre-election, hell-bent upon preventing Amar, Mulayam and Subroto Roy from 'running away' from India. But for Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh's temporary intervention with behenji, Amar Singh would have been put behind bars the day she took over as chief minister.
She has all the charisma sentimental Indian voters look for in a popular leader. Priyanka can try and mobilise the youth, cutting across caste lines.
'With her pan-Indian Dalit following her in a frenzy, slogging for her in the field, with their dreams of seeing a Dalit prime minister in India, the possibility is not as distant as most Indians wish/dread it to be.'
'Mayawati and her dedicated band of anonymous workers are already fanning out in each one of the 545 parliamentary constituencies, making rapid inroads into traditional BJP and Congress domains.'
Thakurs of all shades and complexions will synergise and chip in with all their might to see senior Thakur Shekhawat securely ensconced in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Politicians associated with Amitabh Bachchan have invariably nursed grand illusions. And suffered.
The battle-lines are drawn. Both titans are flexing their muscles.
In case Governor Rajeshwar Rao refuses to recognise her numerical strength and dares to invoke President's Rule, then UP may have some rare fireworks.
Imagine a Dalit naari single-handedly fighting Moolahyumm Singh, the BJP star brigade and the Congress party! Today, Mayawati is the darling behenji of the masses.
All the crores coming out of the coffers of Moolahyumm, Subroto Roy, Anil Ambani, Amar Singh, Shivpal Singh, Adi Godrej and others cannot influence the disgusted electorate of UP
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