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Hello People

Today, Mayawati, the Chief Minister of UP, celebrates her birthday.

Last year, Mayawati’s men murdered an engineer, Manoj Gupta, because Manoj did not want to contribute 500,000 rupees for Maya’s birthday celebration fund. Before he was killed, Maya’s henchmen pulled his hair out, gave him electric shocks, broke his bones, and burnt him with cigarettes (link to news story). I wonder if it was his money or his blood that they needed for the birthday bash.

The news stayed in the media for a little bit but eventually no one was convicted for this savagery. Shekhar Tiwari, the chief perpetrator of the crime, is in custody but is yet to be convicted. Last thing I know about him is that he was requesting a bail in October. CBI wanted to probe this issue further, but Maya did not let the CBI in, probably fearing the opening of a bigger can of worms.

So, repeat after me as I make this plea to Maya on her birthday this year:

Maya, last year you spent 20 billion rupees on your statues when half the state was languishing in droughts. In one case, you got a 70 million rupee statue redone because you did not like its face (can’t really blame the sculptor, can we?) and because you suddenly decided that the statue needed to hold a handbag. A few hundred thousands should be like pocket change for you!

I sincerely hope that the money ‘pocketed’ by you and your men from this project will obviate the need to torture innocent citizens for this pocket change. And if my suspicion is right and it is actually the blood of these people that you desire, then just look carefully at your statues. You’ll see that they are smeared in blood of the people who could have been saved by the monies allocated to your insatiable vanity.

So slay no more, please?