A casual observer of statements coming out of Uttar Pradesh, cannot be blamed for assuming for a minute that he/she may have stepped back into the early 2000s.
On the one side you have Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati, endorsing the Supreme court’s stay on the University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations on equity, saying the rules would stoke social tension, reflecting general category anxieties, on the other was former Union minister Kalraj Mishra, breaking cover after retiring from a gubernatorial stint in Rajasthan, again speaking out on the UGC issue.
