SC directive to UP Govt was utmost necessary

The directive given by the Supreme Court to the Mayawati government of UP to stop the construction work on the sites of memorials of the ruling BSP mentor Kanshi Ram and Mayawati herself within six hours has been welcomed widely in the country. The political degeneration has so awfully set in our democratic system that we need the judiciary to set the things right in place. Uttar Pradesh is not only the biggest state of India but also one of the most ill-admiistered. It is hit hardest by poverty and illeteracy. And it is only because of narrow politics being played for self-aggrandisement in the state for the last 15 years. UP, Bihar, Rajashthan and Madhya Pradesh were described as BIMARU states or sick states some time back. But apart from UP, all the three are no longer Bimaru states. In the neighbouring state of Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has set the motion of good governance into action through good administration and development-oriented initiative. However,despite having got the majority on its own, the ruling BSP is wasting the golden opportunity of developing by involvig itself in self-aggrandisement and glorification through wasteful expenditure of state exchequer. The construction sites, where work has been stopped on the order of the apext court, were estimated at the public exchequer of Rs. 26, 000 . The memorials and statue of Dalit icon Baba Bhim Rao Ambedkar, BSP founder Kanshi Ram and Chief Minister Mayawati can not fill the empty stomach of lakhs of Dalits in UP itself who sleep empty stomach most of days nor their statues and memorials will make them literate. BSP in its defence puts forward the reason that hudreds of projects have been named after Gandhis of Congress and no objection was raised and when we try to remind the Dalits about their heroes, hue and cry is raised. But the BSP forgets that those projects which have been named after Gandhis are meants of the development of the common people. The expenditure of public exchequer on the construction of statues and memorials for self-aggrandisement and glorification of either a person, political party and commuity must be stopped. It is sheer nonsense and naked display of wasteful expenditure. The entire country is reeling uder severe drought and crores of rupees are drained on self -glorification. The Cogress-NCP ruling alliance is going to construct the memrials of Chatrapati Shivaji which will cost the state exchequer Rs. 350 crore o the eve of Maharashtra assembly elections. Does it make any sense in the state where thousands of starvation deaths were recorded ? And the state exchequer is spent for gaining political mileage of Maharashtrians. The Centre must make consensus to stop this type of activities by the different state governments and if anywhere necessary the state government must take permission from the Centre. UP chief minister Mayawati is losing the opportuity of providig good governance and bringing the state on the path of development. This may prove costly for Mayawati politically.