Lucknow:
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has announced that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will soon replace the elephant as the party’s election symbol. The new election symbol has been approved by the Election Commission. 54-year-old Mayawati has been winning the MTV (Mayawati TV) Youth Icon of the Year Award for the past 54 years.
This will be the first instance when a human being will operate as the symbol of a political party instead of wild animals, maimed hands, dead lotuses, lightless lamps and hi-tech bicycles. Leading biologists, including the great-grandson of Charles Darwin, have termed this is as a landmark achievement for Homo sapiens.
The miserly BSP has declared no prizes for guessing who got this idea first. After speculations and whispered guesses by the media for about five hours, Mayawati apparently got impatient and announced a press conference in the evening, in which she herself made it clear that it was her idea. “The Dalits of the state are reaping the benefits of my statues. They know very well that they have no counterparts in the elephant community, so it would be best to have someone like me as the election symbol, alive and working constantly for the community,” said Mayawati.
The government has set a budget of Rs 2 cr to manufacture Mayawati masks and tattoos, which will soon be released in the state to popularise the new symbol. Vendors outside most temples will soon be instructed to sell replicas of garlands of currency notes. Mayawati is one of the most prominent monkeys of modern India, and her Dalit upliftment also benefits the monkey community.
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