Mulayam has Foot-Mouth disease

Ban such Leaders

Indian politics, already notorious for its unique wheeler-dealing, has a hit a new low with Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav calling for the Mayawati government’s dismissal (by imposing President’s Rule, is that not what he means?) in return for support to whosoever achieves that feat. On Thursday, in his Lok Sabha constituency of Mainpuri, a frustrated, confounded and power-hungry Mulayam Singh Yadav declared that his party would extend support to anyone ready to sack the democratically elected government of Mayawati. Sinister, this is the least we would say. Let us not ask as to how a party chief can so brazenly advocate the misuse of Article 356 just in order to settle political scores? For, leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav can stoop to any level to have a taste of corrupted and corrupting power at the Centre. And also because concern for the aam aadmi that they sloganeer so profusely is just a charade bordering on the criminal; after all, it is a crime, as this newspaper has said times without number, to hoodwink the man on the street by the expert use of sloganeering just to enter the corridors of power by crookery and commit an endless fraud on him. Therefore, let us rather ask as to whether it is not time the country’s system woke up to the dirt of such politics and began a process to proscribe leaders of the likes of Mulayam Singh Yadav, also infamous for making sexist remarks against a district magistrate because she was not prepared to abide by his diktats and would rather follow her conscience as an upright civil servant. Let us ask ourselves as to what kind of service we would be rendering to our democracy if we were to keep tolerating the Mulayam Singh Yadav breed. And what role should — and must — the Election Commission now assume, given Yadav’s nefarious bargain and the politics it could inspire to the utter detriment of the health of our evolving democracy?
Of the BJP and the Congress, it is obviously the latter with whom the ‘secular’ Mulayam Singh Yadav would go — but, remember, that was till the other day. After Thursday, since he will go with anyone ready to topple the Mayawati government of Uttar Pradesh, what if the BJP-led coalition were to come to power and agree to dislodge Mayawati? Would the definition of ‘secularism’ change instantly for Yadav? This, we shall await, and we shall have occasion to watch many other such shows too. However, this is not bothering Yadav; perhaps his calculation says it will be either the Congress or the Third Front leading the next government at the Centre. Since there is no use asking for a response from a messy Third Front, let the Congress now declare from its core that Mulayam Singh Yadav is an unwanted species in its scheme of things if he were to stick to his bargain. But why did not the Congress, which after all shares the same ‘secular’ platform with the Samajwadi Party, respond right on Thursday — that his brand of politics is totally unacceptable in a democracy? Now it will be interesting to see who will warm up to whom — the Congress to the Samajwadi Party or the other way round. And that will say so many things. Meanwhile, how about demanding a blanket ban on leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav for the sake of Indian politics and democracy?

The above is from the Editorial of "the Sentinel" of Assam
Isn't it surprising that we are getting no reaction from any of the regular political parties with regard to the atrocious statement being made by Mulayam Singh.
He is in the habit of making such statements.
He puts his foot in his mouth and then realizes that the foot had a shoe with it. Then he sheepishly says that he did not want to put the shoe in the mouth only the foot.
We all know how he professed his love for the English language in the Election Manifesto of his party only to dilute the statement later on saying he did not mean that.
But what of the communists and socialists who themselves were sometime or other victims of these dismissals. No word from them?
Are they waiting for the election results as they do not know with whom they will have to bed and cohabit?