Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati features on the cover of Newsweek’s latest edition, with the US weekly drawing parallels between
her and US President Barack Obama – in their rise to political heights though belonging to the bottom of the social ladder.
However, the weekly with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief’s photo on its cover design, says Mayawati is a “bigger underdog” and a “bigger threat” to the “established order than Obama was”.
While commenting her “suspiciously ostentatious fortune” and her “limited accomplishments” on behalf of the socially oppressed Dalits, whose cause she champions, the weekly has said her possible bagging the prime ministership would “ironically end up bolstering the caste system that has kept them (Dalits) in chains”.More