UPside down

The ACT II of the recent Sonia Morality Play was a masterstroke. And it came from the bahu of India's first family, which has developed and perfected the art of political chicanery. And the junta, including the sychophant Congress workers and a bunch of opinion-makers, went ga ga over the renunciation act of the Congress president. They all knew it was aimed at winning back the Hindi heartland votes without which the Congress can never come to power on its own. Rai Bareli was just a stepping stone. Sonia has just begun her yatra to cut the neo-socialists and Dalit-sympathisers of UP to size. And no better way to profit than quitting a post-of-profit. With the state slated to go for elections next year, Mrs Morality has initiated the debate on maintaining a moral standars in politics. Well, sounds very exciting given the image politicians carry. People, in general, are still recovering from years of the corrution raj of the Congress post-independence. Hoping for a corruption-free rule, they voted for socialists who turned out to be even worse. And in the post Babri and Mandal politics, Congress having lost ground, is making hectic efforts to win back India's most politically important arena. And since it can't take credit, discredit for the communalisation and Mandalisation of politics, it has stirred up the issue of corruption with Sonia leading from the front. Let's see how far this goes... The Mayawatis and the Mulayams would be praying for Act V.