The day before yesterday i.e. on 22nd of November Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party leader completed 81 years of his life. We wish him a happy and long life. Some journalists, who had been benefitted by the largesse’s and the neck-deep corruption prevailing at the time of Mr Yadav, hailed him as one of the towering leaders and the messiah of the poor, which is quite understandable but laughable. Most of the journalists in Lucknow and other places in Uttar Pradesh were regularly and extensively given crumbs by Shri Yadav in cash and kind to sing his paeans.
Posterity will remember him if at all he is remembered, for his rank opportunism, stinking corruption, brazen nepotism, shameless casteism and naked hooliganism with no vision for the future or understanding of the statecraft. It has been the misfortune of the State that practically an illiterate muscleman ruled the state for many terms as the Chief Minister of the largest state of the country. It was largely because of him that an equally, if not more corrupt, uncouth and eccentric woman like Mayawati, whose only qualification was of her being born in a Dalit family, also became the Chief Minister of the state many times.
Nobody has been more shameless in amassing money and perpetuating and favouring his family dominance in Uttar Pradesh than Shri Yadav. All developmental activities had literally come to a nought during his tenure. The education system was systematically destroyed by him. He used to openly make fun of education and wanted the copying to be freely used in the examination halls. Can there be anything more ludicrous than to say that if you cannot provide jobs to students then why not allow them to have degrees? Yes, these Aristotelian wise words were of Shri Yadav.
The biggest damage was done by him to the Hindi as he promoted and got saddled such persons in the important positions, who had neither Will nor talent to work for the service of Mother Hindi. Important constitutional positions were offered to those who were thoroughly undeserving to the posts they held.
Instead of solving the problems of Ayodhya and Uttarakhand, he started dealing with them like an arrogant and lunatic politician. He got killed dozens of karsevaks and innocent agitators at Ayodhya and Rampur. He had the cheek to say that he would not have hesitated in killing hundreds to get the support of a particular religion and was happy with the honorific of Mulla. How can a politician like him be fit to be at the helm?
He had, of course, excelled the art of keeping media persons bribed. The way the government houses were allotted to pick and choose persons, plots were distributed, advertisements were poured to select media houses was unparallel and unheard of in other dispensation. There were many journalists who used to get extensive cash and kind benefits from him and his administration and therefore there is no surprise if they owe allegiance to him.
Socialism was converted into a grammar of anarchy and lawlessness by Shri Yadav and, that too, without and any qualms and compunctions.
