Wait till the Dalit Queen says STATUE !

The Supreme Court might have dealt a telling and deserving blow to our Dalit Queen Mayawati by halting the work on the statues being raised all over Uttar Pradesh at a colossal Rs 2600 crores. But expect the queen to not give up without a fight.
Her counsel told the Supreme Court to take a look at the Rs 10000 crores- her figures and not verifiable- spent by the Congress party in erecting memorials to their leaders, all of whom have that one common thread that the party has been hanging onto for almost a century now. They all belong to the Gandhi-Nehru parivaar.
Of course, the SC pushed aside the argument but I believe in the months to come as this fight over statues gets into the business end of litigation, the Dalit Queen is going to leave the Congress and its fist family with more than a bloody nose.
Because she might just re-ignite a long-dead debate than in a nation of so many disparities and differences why should one family lord it over with such brazen misuse of taxpayers’ money.
That brings me to the old Congress trick of putting out full-page advertisements of some or the other inauguration about to take place. They cleverly beat the election code of conduct and when it comes to answering these allegations, the party and the government goes back to the old explanation that these ads relate to that particular ministry and not any party or personality. The Election Commission- not the epitome of fairness at most times- accepts the argument every time. But then we have had reams of newsprint expended on people who have sat on that supposedly unbiased chair and have given clear hints about who they support. Remember how former Chief Election Commissioner MS Gill after taking allegations of a bias towards the Congress with indignation felt nothing of that righteousness at joining that very party as a junior minister.
In the September 9 issue of the Times of India there is this half page ad of the Textile Ministry of the government of India. On the top are the smiling mugs of Manmohan Singh- he gets left side billing which means he is not the most important man around- Sonia Gandhi right in the middle- slightly higher than the mug of Singh- and the third of Dr Kalaignar Karunanidhi.
In the middle of the text that goes blah blah about the textile ministry and its initiatives is a mug of Textile Minister and Karunanidhi’s DMK scion Kalanidhi Maran.
Well the Congress might say this is just an ad put out by the ministry but the only problem is that the ad is for a textile hub coming up in Surat- the Gujarat Eco-Textile Park- mind you not Tamil Nadu- that the Union Textile ministry is setting up in partnership with the Gujarat government. Ideally then, instead of the bespectacled mug of Thiru Dr Kalaignar Karunanidhi, we should have had one of Narendra Modi, since he is chief minister of Gujarat.
But then as we told you earlier, when the Congress gets into governance, every ad in the papers and every function should propagate just one ideal- that of the party and of course that of the family.
We have never thought in these terms because we tend to get too much of a dose of ‘secular’ media led by journalists fed on the awards bestowed by the Family.My bet is that a lot of that silence is going to be broken when our Dalit Queen starts talking, and mind you the Queen talks in a very shrill voice. She started off her career ticking of good old Gandhiji- remember nautankibaaz- and she might end it with those who use the old man’s legacy to get to the seats of power.