SP In UP On The Fore –Victory Of New Strategy Or Choice Of Choicelessness?

With the whooping majority The Cycle is once again set for a long ride in Uttar Pradesh. Getting a clean sweep in 2012 UP Assembly Elections the Samajwadi Party has benchmarked a new success story in its history under the leadership of young face Akhilesh Yadav son of Netaji Mulayam Singh Yadav. In 2007 it was Ms Mayawati’s BSP which enjoyed the feat of being a single largest party with a majority. The common public got entangled in her beautifully woven dream of crime and corruption free state and dreamt of an end of gundaraj of Mulayam government. The dalits at the same time felt their lives would no longer be of dalits and happily got collected themselves under one umbrella of Mayaraj. But all the dreams got shattered when money meant to refine the lives of not so fortunate ones were spent to chisel and embellish the lifeless stones. Rape, murder, corruption became rampant in the state. And the frustrated common man once again vented out its anger through the EVM buttons but...what was the option..? The Congress- who is knee-deep in corruption, who lathicharges on innocent souls in their sleep at midnight not sparing even women and children, whose Yuvraj says it’s impossible to check every terror attacks?? The BJP whose words hardly matches with its deeds? On the one hand it fights for the strong Lokpal to end corruption and on the other it has no inhibitions in inducting people like Kushwaha with charges of corruption in the party! So what’s the choice? Certainly it was not the strategy of any party as the argument in the media goes but the choice less situation and a young and firm grip on the handle this time though which led the people to trust once again the ride of The Bicycle. But the display of anarchy and lawlessness by the party activists coupled with killing of two innocent kids in the fury on the very first day of victory put a big question mark as to who do we vote in this so called democracy? It is always being argued by the intellectuals that we must vote we must exercise our this very right to change the fate and face of the governance as democracy is of the people for the people and by the people but do we people really have a choice? Whom should we elect to rule us and why?