Recently, India has witnessed a stranger political drama in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. The incidents might seem like a sequence of Hindi B-Grade movies. The sequence goes like this:-

10 July 2009 : News about Uttar Pradesh DGP visiting Dalit victims in his state and paying compensation as per SC/ST atrocities ac has hit

headlines. It comes as no surprise as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati , being a Dalit herself. Her party fared well below expectation in last Indian general election. So many thought, this was an act of appeasement of her Dalit people. Most probably, other political parties, specially Congress, thought of countering this.

16th July 2009 : News broke that Congress state president Rita Bahuguna Joshi remarked about his compensation that it is very inadequate, and said “If Mayawati thinks that such an amount is fair compensation for the mental and physical trauma suffered by a rape victim, then I would be ready to offer her a compensation of Rs.1 crore”. Source.

After this remark were known, Mayawati reacted quickly and ordered Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s arrest as well as charge her with SC/ST atrocities (Prevention) Act and she herself became eligible for Rs. 25000/- compensation as per the SC/ST atrocities (Prevention) Act. provisions.
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Election campaign in India has always been exciting and eventful. This time, there is not a single poll issue which is being used by any of the major political parties.

Recently, Varun Gandhi, the BJP candidate from Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, has been making news for soem Hate Speech. As he has got media coverage, many leaders are taking cue from him. Either they are trying to make some hate speech like him, either by opposing him or supporting him. Mr. L P Yadav, who is a part of UPA, but contesting against his other UPA allies, has tried to give equal hate speech like Varun Gandhi, and got himself on media headlines too.
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