Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Chief Minister of U.P. Ms. Mayawati has informed that she has accumulated wealth to the tune of Rs.52 crores in course of her political career.
Daughter of a low paid employee, Mayawati had started her earning as a teacher in a Delhi Administration School. But politics provided her with the money, which a School-teacher, in a span of a thousand births anywhere in India, could never have accumulated.
If she is honest in her affidavit filed along with her nomination papers before the Returning Officer seeking a berth in the Upper Chamber of UP Assembly, the amount of Cash in her hand at the moment is Rs.50.27 lakhs. Her cash deposits in banks, financial institutions and non-banking financial companies amount to Rs.12.88 lakhs. Jewellery? See, she has 380.17-carat diamonds worth Rs.49.75 lakhs, gold and studded jewellery worth Rs.50.87 lakhs. The new aristocratic aura she believes she has, has made her procure even a 18.5kg silver dinner set costing Rs1.12 lakhs. She has, as she has revealed, assets that comprise murals worth Rs.15 lakhs.
Over and above these movables, she has commercial and residential establishments under her ownership in New Delhi and Lucknow worth several crores of Rupees. According to her own version, she owns two commercial establishments in Connaught Place, New Delhi, priced at Rs. 2.05 crores and Rs.1.27 crores and another commercial establishment at Okhla which is priced at Rs.15.50 crores. Her residential properties comprise one mansion at Nehru Road in the Cantonment of Lucknow and another at Sardar Patel Marg in Delhi, the cost of which, according to her, is Rs.97.42 lakhs and Rs.18.02 crores respectively.
Are you surprised?
Why should you be? Becoming surprised would be surprising.
If you know your Motherland is being looted and if in your opinion Vajpayee was a perfect Prime Minister and Man Mohan Singh is, why should you be surprised if Mayawati has fetched this massive fortune out of politics?
I am not surprised. The present India is a swamp where crabs like Mayawati have their congenial environment to possess anything that they can grab.
India has been transformed to a Plutocracy and in a Plutocracy, by using facilities of enfranchisement the rich or the agents of the rich grab power under any guise and work for the rich on commission basis. Mayawati is just a sample.
Mayabati is just a sample of how the politico-bureaucratic nexus serving the Masters in private industries have ruined our nation.
When a man like Vajpayee was the Prime Minister, who was more conspicuous by his support to commission agents as in Fernandez case and by denuding the country of her industrial assets while crowning this anti-national mechanism as Ministry of disinvestments, we as a nation did not stop him.
Now a man like Dr. Man Mohan Singh, who, as Finance minister, had sabotaged our Constitution by subjecting India to GATT behind back of the people, as it was impossible to terminate our solemn resolution enshrined in its Preamble to constitute Sovereign India into a SOCIALIST Secular Democratic Republic, is being tolerated by all of us as the Prime Minister! And, look at the irony, the Communists, ethically expected to remain alert sentinels of socialism, are his allies!
What more proof we need to know that we are no more a democracy; but a plutocracy?
And, in a plutocracy, who other than Mayawati and her likes, irrespective of affiliations, can fetch profit sans any industry, out of party politics?
After disclosure of her assets by herself, the hypocrites in her opposite camps and in different media organizations have started raising their eyebrows to the reality of vandalism that has given birth to the new property queen and have most meretriciously started shedding crocodile tears over Indias discernible fall in to the state of no-probity.
This is a farce. Instead of indulging in this farce, instead of lamenting that the country is plundered, it is time to exterminate the political climate that has so far suited the scoundrels.
If we cannot rise against plutocracy, we have no right to bother about how and who plunders the Country.
Mayawati is nothing but a living replica of our nation’s ugly face.