Mayawati may differ from Obama but so what? If files have to be explained to her, what's wrong with that, if those who explain are honest. Obama had a Harvard education, she did not.
It's great she wrote to him, I hope they meet soon. When I visited my daughter last in Brooklyn, the door of the apartment next to hers had a poster with a head of Obama, rays (like sun) coming out of his head, and the map of the world like a tilak on his forehead. ie people, especially African Americans, look at Obama much in the same way Dalits (I mean Chamars) look at Mayawati. A main difference between US and India is that in US a section of whites also were genuinely thrilled by his victory. Jai Bhim Jai Joti, Gail On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Siddhartha Kumar <mailsiddharth...@gmail.com > wrote: > > http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20081229/884/twl-mayawati-feels-obama-a-kindered-spir.html > > 'Mayawati feels Obama a kindered spirit' > Mon, Dec 29 05:51 PM > > London, Dec 29 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has been > so inspired by the victory of Barack Obama that she has shot off a > letter of congratulations to the US president-elect, a British > newspaper reported. > > 'She feels Obama is a kindred spirit,' the Sunday Telegraph quoted an > unnamed Maywati aide as saying. > > 'She was so thrilled that she sent him a message of congratulations.' > > The paper said Obama's success has reinforced Mayawati's belief in her > greatness despite strong criticism of her style of functioning and her > alleged failure to bring development to backward castes - her main > constituency. > > 'Whereas he (Obama) has erased only a couple of centuries of > discrimination, she wants to be known for wiping out a far longer > legacy of bigotry if she becomes prime minister,' the paper said. > > It quoted Mayawati's former principal secretary P.L. Punia as saying > she suffered from 'feudal trappings.' > > 'She terrorises her civil servants. She doesn't understand files on > complex issues, they have to be explained to her verbally,' Punia > said. > > The paper, however, said Mayawati's supporters liken her to Obama, > while she pins her hopes of premiership on a hung parliament and Left > support at the next general election. > >
