UP gets the blues: all wear Maya's colour

MAYA RAJ: The BSP chief seems to have a strange fascination for blue.

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Lucknow: While the aam aadmi deals with changing prices, in Uttar Pradesh its all about changing political colors.

In the last year, Chief Minister Mayawati might have ruthlessly crushed her political rivals and virtually reversed all major decisions taken by her predecessor Mulayam Singh Yadav. But in her one-year stint she would be known for doing something even more striking.

In her regime everything from the public sign boards, carpets in her house to traffic police all have turned blue.

Lohia's follower Mulayam loves to walk on green carpets. But Kanshi Ram's sishya Mayawati loves blue. The BSP chief seems to have a strange fascination for blue.

So much so that when she comes to power everything turns blue - road railings, signs boards and even the traffic police.

Traffic constable K K Rajvanshi says, “Blue is better than white it does not need to be washed.”

So when Mayawati chooses to print her autobiography well, the cover is blue. And if you're wondering why the BSP's flag and the party's symbol, the elephant, is blue, well, Mayawati's minister has the answer:

BSP minister Rakesh Dhar Tripathi says, “We are a national party. We believe in welfare of all castes and blue stands for that.”

You might be a minister, an MLA or a party worker - for BSP blue symbolizes true loyalty.

Like the party's senior leader swami Prasad Maurya who has painted his house blue. It seems to be helping Mayawati let her blues out.

BSP MLA Abhinav Mishra says, “I will use more blue color in my day to day life even curtains of my drawing room are blue."

Even as Mayawati's fascination for blue continues to grow her followers are making sure they keep their supreme leader happy by making blue an integral part of their life.

But in this mad race of turning everything blue, we can only hope that Mayawati realizes the importance of all the colors just like she realized the importance of taking along people of all the castes under her new formula of social engineering.