Ruby Goes, in sending the following link: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1235023 said: "Between the devil and the deep blue sea. So amoral!"
The rally was boycotted as a "protest against the party fielding gangster Mukhtar Ansari from the holy city (Varanasi) for the coming Lok Sabha election". The report also says: ""Brahmin rally for votes in the Lok Sabha election is totally immoral, and when it is for the mobilisation of voters in favour of a mafia don, it is really unfortunate." So the amorality was on part of the BSP, it would seem. And the Brahmins have acted in a form which many on this list have suggested that we do, if we were in the same situation. The rally was address by Satish Chandra Mishra, a Brahmin, and supposed to be the architect of the social engineering that Mayawati is credited with. Mishra claims that Brahmins form 15% of the voters in Uttar Pradesh. "He alleged that parties like Congress and the BJP had only exploited the Brahmins and despite ruling the country and the state for years, both the parties ignored the Brahmins and did nothing for their betterment." This is from a report in Pioneer avaialble at the following link: http://www.dailypioneer.com/159359/Mishra-urges-Brahmin-Samaj-to-make-Mayawa ti-PM.html Best regards, Dr. U. G. Barad