Meira Kumar’s elevation as Speaker is the Congress’s first major offensive to retake the Dalit vote.
With her selection, many birds have been killed by one stone, no one more important than Mayawati. It has posed a direct challenge to Uttar Pradesh’s presiding deity and her brand of Dalit politics. Mayawati has left no occasion to challenge Sonia, at times quite personally: this is the Congress president’s riposte.
Last year, battle lines were drawn between the two when `Behan’ Mayawati had denied Sonia the permission to hold a rally in Rae Bareli. She cited a flimsy violation of procedure. Clearly to stop Meira Kumar from growing. In the run up to the trust vote on the Indo-US nuclear deal, Mayawati had emerged as leader of the oust-Congress campaign, only later to be thwarted comprehensively.
Sonia’s chose of Meira is natural. The new Speaker has in the past bested known Dalit stalwarts like Ram Vilas Paswan and an emerging Mayawati from Bijnor in UP, back in the 1980s. Meira won Sasaram, Jagjivan Ram’s old constituency in Bihar with a thumping majority in 2004 and has retained her seat in 2009. That counts for a lot. So clearly, even Paswan is on the hit list.
With such a distinguished lineage – and now a political heritage - it is surprising that Meira Kumar has been missing from the Congress ranks. This former diplomat has what it takes to turn around Congress’s Dalit fortunes. The first salvo in that direction has been fired.
With her selection, many birds have been killed by one stone, no one more important than Mayawati. It has posed a direct challenge to Uttar Pradesh’s presiding deity and her brand of Dalit politics. Mayawati has left no occasion to challenge Sonia, at times quite personally: this is the Congress president’s riposte.
Last year, battle lines were drawn between the two when `Behan’ Mayawati had denied Sonia the permission to hold a rally in Rae Bareli. She cited a flimsy violation of procedure. Clearly to stop Meira Kumar from growing. In the run up to the trust vote on the Indo-US nuclear deal, Mayawati had emerged as leader of the oust-Congress campaign, only later to be thwarted comprehensively.
Sonia’s chose of Meira is natural. The new Speaker has in the past bested known Dalit stalwarts like Ram Vilas Paswan and an emerging Mayawati from Bijnor in UP, back in the 1980s. Meira won Sasaram, Jagjivan Ram’s old constituency in Bihar with a thumping majority in 2004 and has retained her seat in 2009. That counts for a lot. So clearly, even Paswan is on the hit list.
With such a distinguished lineage – and now a political heritage - it is surprising that Meira Kumar has been missing from the Congress ranks. This former diplomat has what it takes to turn around Congress’s Dalit fortunes. The first salvo in that direction has been fired.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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