Saturday, April 3, 2010

Bigger crime - Genocide or money garlands?

I find a lot of criticism of Mayawati and her style of politics - statues, money garland and now a force to protect the statues. Most of the criticism comes from Congress and BJP. That makes me laugh.
Coming from these two parties, the criticism is as much out of proportion as a pot calling an off white piece 'black'.
Both these great national parties are openly accused of genocide - organising killing of a section of their own junta, using the power of office. Who can forget the Sikh killings and the Gujarat killings? Are the crimes of Mayawati anywhere near that scale? To those postgraduates, she is a mere kindergarden kid.
Of course, we should neither have genocides nor the Mayawati style of politics. But, c'mon, have some sense of perspective. I am not even prepared to speak of both in the same breath.