The UP Municipal election results are out and BJP has won. And people are going bonkers. At one end, BJP is taunting Congress for losing and losing very badly, and at the other side, Congress is highlighting that BJP has lost a seat / few seats in the constituency of Yogi Adithyanath / Keshav Prasad Maurya. Considering that this sounds more like that famous "Pass Persua Fail Perusa" from the movie Gentleman, I can happily ignore their rants as a joke.
It is the media coverage of the same is the one that gets my goat.
There is a moron who confidently concludes that "Yogi Adityanath has kept the BJP's vote bank of upper castes firmly with him as these results indicate.". And another moron has attributed BSP's victory to the support of Dalit-Muslims. Where do they get these inferences from? Are they having access to some information which even the Election Commission does not have? Has any one ever mentioned their caste when they vote? No one knows who an individual has voted for, and we have these morons coming out and making all these assertions.
Now, they may be drawing their inferences from surveys done by various psephologists. But I still don't understand as to why they are keen on "bracketing" a whole group of people. Are these guys so sure that voters still vote as herds? And that the voters are brainless? And that every one of them will always vote their caste? Can't these writers ever realize that such immature writing can probably perpetuate the herd mentality?
I find most such assertions only as an indicator of their moral depravity. The vulture that salivates on the prospect of communal / caste divide, knowing very well that less we talk in these lines, more the lines will get blurred.
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Nopes! I never said that. I only said that the media should stop highlighting these things. And media shouldn't always presume that people vote only based on caste. Many don't.