18 November 2013, 01:59 PM IST
Mulayam Singh Yadav has always wanted something or the other to be banned. English in Parliament is hardly the only item in that list. Language and technology have been two perennial fault lines where MSY's lava-like anger keeps steaming and occasionally erupts violently from time to time. What MSY wants abolished, reduced, or done away with stretches from tech upgrades to expensive education to agricultural modernization to malls.
Those arguing that the demand to ban the use of English in Parliament is illogical or regressive are engaging in a futile exercise. Never has MSY been fazed by the absence of logic or rationality in argument. Mulayam will go after the use of English in every forum feasible for years and years, and advocate the shutting down of schools offering expensive education – and express his distaste for English education by sending one son to Australia and one to the UK to study. Mulayam will rave and rant that the use of computers is a recipe for increasing unemployment, that their use in the government should be banned – and then have his face on the wallpapers on the thousands of free laptops that the SP government will dole out to students. Mulayam will declare that he is resolutely opposed to capitalism, stock trading and the 'mall culture' – and, even after the split with Amar Singh, be on quite cordial terms with corporate groups that are most definitely not opposed to the stock market or the mall culture. Mulayam will install, supervise and remote control his son's cabinet in UP – and then ask voters to 'not punish' him for the mistakes that government makes. And we want to debate whether his proposals can pass the scrutiny of cold logic?
The bans list is not just about English and computers. Mulayam has earlier pitched a ban on mechanised farming because it snatches jobs from labour during harvesting season. He has more recently advocated a ban on anti-Islam content on the internet (though why he thinks anti-Any-Other-Faith content does not need similar bans is yet to be explained).
The only things I recall reading about in all these years about Mulayam not wanting banned, and in fact him supporting a revocation of then-existing bans, was when it came to – yes, surprise, surprise – a) resumption of college elections in UP and, b) the Centre's ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India.
Well, he's consistent about some things.
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