Cost of foolishness

Cricket is no match for the game of politics and the Samajwadi Party on the eve of the 2014 poll, resorted to tactics most foul..Its record of governance of the state has been  abjectly wanting and its alienation with its minority vote bank almost total after its ham handed dealing of the Muzzafarnagar riots and thereafter , its neglect of  the rehabilitation camps . Mayawati riding  on an anti-incumbency sentiment  had perhaps closed all options to SP other than pitching in for a share of  the remaining cache of votes . In a thoughtless move  to upstage the BJP , to being  seen as  more nationalist , it has resorted  to laying outlandish charges  against students  cheering a Pakistani player in a game of cricket !.The SP today has managed to severely traduce not only the hard earned credentials  of this great nation but has dealt a  blow to its integrity as well. This is too big  a price to pay by a nation, in exchange for vacuous electoral edge to an insecure and wayward political outfit.

Pub Asian Age Mar 9
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