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BSP's triumph

The Bahujan Samaj Party's win in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election could be a trailblazer for many changes in the country's political map. The verdict is a setback to the Congress that played every trick in the book to try and bounce back but met with little success. It has been a pathetic display by the BJP too. The SP, for all its show using filmstars, has had to remain content with coming second. There is a lesson in this for all parties: do not take the electorate lightly.

V. Padmanabhan,
Bangalore

BSP chief Mayawati deserves congratulations for her success in a hard-fought election in a State that is considered the country's heartland. The Congress' rejoicing that the SP and the BJP have lost as well is funny. It reminds me of the story of a schoolboy who went to check his annual result. His father, who was waiting at the gate, asked him what the result was. The child coolly said that Ramu, his classmate who lived next-door, had also failed!

C.S. Sukhavanam,
Coimbatore

The BSP's triumph has shown the voters' disdain for national parties and their lofty slogans. The people of the country's most populous State have gone for a personality rather than a particular party. Ms. Mayawati herself must have been pleasantly surprised by her party's comfortable majority.

Ganapathi Bhat,
Akola

The U.P. election has proved that the average Indian voter has no heart for either caste-based or communal parties as evident from the defeat of the SP and the BJP. As for the Congress, it has tried to fool the people with its pseudo-secularism for far too long.

P.V. Maiya,
Bangalore

Ms. Mayawati's new concept of social re-engineering of combining Dalits and Brahmins has yielded a clear mandate, a rare happening in present-day politics.

R. Nagarajan,

Tiruchi

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