http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/10/08NEWDELHI2783.html
(उत्तर प्रदेश के पत्रकारों ने जो कुछ अमेरिकी राजदूत मलफोर्ड को बताया और उनकी दी गई जानकारी के आधार पर मलफोर्ड ने जो बात अमेरिकी विदेश मंत्रालय को बताई, उन बातों को मीडिया बेशर्मी से विकिलीक्स के खुलासे के तौर पर पेश कर रहा है। यह विकिलीक्स का खुलासा नहीं उत्तर प्रदेश के पत्रकारों की 2008 में की गई टिप्पणियां हैं। )
लोकसभा चुनाव से पहले भारत में अमेरिकी राजदूत मलफोर्ड उत्तर प्रदेश का राजनीतिक तापमान जानने के बाद उत्तर प्रदेश के बारे में रिपोर्ट लिखी। इसके बाद उन्होंने अपनी गोपनीय रिपोर्ट अमेरिकी विदेश मंत्रालय़ को भेजी। तारीख है 23 अक्टूबर 2008। इस गोपनीय केबल को विकीलीक्स ने 30 अगस्त 2011 को रिलीज किया। केबल में मायावती नाम देखते ही भारतीय मीडिया भूखे भेड़िए की तरह इस खबर पर टूट पड़ा और तमाम रोचक-रोमांचक-सनसनीखेज शीर्षक के साथ खबरें छापी गईं और चैनलों पर दिखाई गई। प्रिंट मीडिया में जो शीर्षक सबसे ज्यादा दिखे वे हैं
1. सैण्डल मंगवाने मायावती ने मुंबई भेजा अपना विमान (दैनिक हिंदुस्तान)
2. Mayawati sent empty jet to Mumbai for sandals: WikiLeaks- Times of India
3. मायावती को जहर दिए जाने का डर: 7 कुक की निगरानी में बनता है खाना, फिर जांच-दैनिक भास्कर
4. मायावती ने विमान से मंगाई सैंडल, राजनीति हुई गरम-जोश18 (सीएनबीसी ग्रुप)
5. 'सैंडल लेने को मायावती ने भेजा था मुंबई को जेट'- NDTV
6. 'चप्पल मंगाने के लिए माया ने भेजा था प्लेन'- नवभारत टाइम्स
7. माया ने सैंडल लाने मुंबई भेजा खाली विमान-राजस्थान पत्रिका
8.माया ने प्लेन से मंगाए सैंडल-सहारा
खबर के अंदर यह सब लिखा है-
- "She constructed a private road from her residence to her office, which is cleaned immediately after her multiple vehicle convoy reaches its destination," the cable said in an analysis of her "eccentricities, whims and insecurities".
- It added an account of Mayawati making a state minister do sit-ups in front of her as punishment for a minor protocol error, and reported it cost $250,000 to run as a BSP parliamentary candidate due to "institutionalized corruption".
- विकिलीक्स खुलासे में कहा गया है कि मायावती ने खाना चखने के लिए एक कर्मचारी भी रखा हुआ है. यह कर्मचारी उनके खाने से पहले भोजन को टेस्ट करता है कि कहीं उसमें किसी ने जहर तो नहीं मिला दिया.
- विकिलीक्स के खुलासे के मुताबिक मायावती ने अपने घर से कार्यालय तक एक निजी सड़क बनवा रखी है. उनका काफिला जब गुजरने वाला होता है, तब सड़क की सफाई की जाती है
- उत्तर प्रदेश की मुख्यमंत्री मायावती अपनी सुरक्षा को लेकर बहुत चौकन्नी रहती है। माया को विरोधियों की ओर से जहर दिए जाने का डर सताता रहता है। इसलिए माया ने खाना बनाने के लिए 9 कुक रखे हैं लेकिन इनमें से दो कुक ही खाना बनाते हैं। बाकी सात कुक खाने पर निगरानी रखते हैं। इसके अलावा मायावती ने खाने की जांच के लिए दो फूड टेस्टर रखे हैं। जो खाना बनने के बाद उसकी जांच करते हैं।
- मायावती को एक बार नए सैंडल्स चाहिए थे और इसके लिए माया ने अपने फेवरेट ब्रांड के सैंडल्स मंगवाने एक खाली विमान को मुंबई तक भेज दिया था।" इस अमरीकी केबल पर 23 अक्टूबर 2008 की तारीख दर्ज है।
- अमरीकी केबल्स के अनुसार "मायावती किसी भी राज्य पहली ऎसी सीएम हैं, जिन्होंने अपने घर से दफ्तर के लिए निजी सड़कें बनवाई। माया की रईसी का आलम यह है कि यहां से गुजरने के बाद इस सड़क की सफाई की जाती है।
लेकिन क्या यह सब विकीलीक्स बता रहा है? यह किसका खुलासा है? अमेरिकी राजदूत के केबल को ऑरिजनल फॉर्म में गौर से पढ़ा जाना चाहिए। जो सच है वह स्थापित हो और झूठ का पर्दाफाश। नीचे आप मूल केबल को ऑरिजलन फॉर्म में देखें। इसमें कुछ हिस्से देखिए।
1. मलफोर्ड इस केबल में अपनी ओर से टिप्पणी नहीं कर रहे हैं बल्कि खास तौर पर लखनऊ के पत्रकारों के हवाले से बाते कह रहे हैं।
"According to several journalists, the law and
order situation in UP has improved only in that Mayawati has
centralized corruption in her own hands. She has become a
virtual paranoid dictator replete with food tasters and a
security entourage to rival a head of state"
आप स्पष्ट तौर पर देख सकते हैं कि फूट टेस्टर वाली बाकी कुछ पत्रकारों के हवाले से कही गई है। अब 2011 में पत्रकार अपनी ही बिरादरी की बात को विकिलीक्स के खुलासे के तौर पर सनसनीखेज तौर पर लोगों के सामने पेश कर रहे हैं।
2. एक और बात जिसे पत्रकार विकिलीक्स के खुलासे के तौर पर पेश कर रहे हैं उसका सच ऑरिजनल केबल में इस रूप में है-
One Lucknow journalist related a story in which a State Minister was
forced to do sit-ups in front of her as penance for not first
asking permission to call on UP's governor. Mayawati forced
a civil servant to resign when she learned his daughter had
joined the Congress Party in Delhi.
3. इस केबल में सूचनाओं का आधार क्या है, इसे शुरूआत में स्पष्ट किया गया है। अमेरिकी राजदूत ने ईमानदारी से स्रोत का उल्लेख किया है। भारतीय माडिया यह नहीं बता रहा है। -
Poloff traveled to three cities in Uttar
Pradesh (UP) during the week of October 13-17 to gauge the
political state of play. A wide range of business,
political, academic and media contacts generally agreed that
Chief Minister Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
have done little to promote development since her May 2007
election.
4. इन्हीं स्रोत के हवाले से मलफोर्ड लिखते हैं -
Mayawati's full majority victory in May 2007 UP State
Assembly elections left her beholden to no one and has
allowed her to act on her eccentricities, whims and
insecurities. When she needed new sandals, her private jet
flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand.
According to Lucknow journalists, she employs nine cooks (two
to cook, the others to watch over them) and two food tasters.
She fears assassination and demanded from the central
government the highest level of protection available. In
addition to this outsized security apparatus, she constructed
a private road from her residence to her office, which is
cleaned immediately after her multiple vehicle convoy reaches
its destination.
जाहिर है कि पत्रकारों ने जो मलफोर्ड को बताया और उनकी दी गई जानकारी के आधार पर मलफोर्ड ने जो बात अमेरिकी विदेश मंत्रालय को बताई, उन बातों को मीडिया बेशर्मी से विकिलीक्स के खुलासे के तौर पर पेश कर रहा है।
जूलियन असांज की साइट विकिलीक्स ने इतना भर किया है कि अमेरिकी दूतावास से आए केबल संदेशों को सार्वजनिक कर दिया है। लेकिन भारतीय मीडिया ने इसका जिस तरह से सनसनीखेज इस्तेमाल किया है और झूठ बोलकर लोगों को भ्रमित करने की कोशिश की वह शर्मनाक है। मायावती के शासन की निर्मम आलोचना कीजिए। कोई समस्या नहीं है। लेकिन इसके लिए विकिलीक्स की विश्वसनीयता की ढाल का इस्तेमाल नहीं किया जाना चाहिए।
नीचे पढ़े ऑरिजनल केबल।
स्रोत-http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/10/08NEWDELHI2783.html
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 NEW DELHI 002783
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/25/2017
TAGS: PGOV PREL SOCI PINR KISL IN
SUBJECT: MAYAWATI: PORTRAIT OF A LADY
REF: A. NEW DELHI 2012
¶B. NEW DELHI 825
Classified By: A/PolCouns Pushpinder Dhillon for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
¶1. (C) Summary: Poloff traveled to three cities in Uttar
Pradesh (UP) during the week of October 13-17 to gauge the
political state of play. A wide range of business,
political, academic and media contacts generally agreed that
Chief Minister Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
have done little to promote development since her May 2007
election. According to several journalists, the law and
order situation in UP has improved only in that Mayawati has
centralized corruption in her own hands. She has become a
virtual paranoid dictator replete with food tasters and a
security entourage to rival a head of state. Civil servants
will not speak to the press for fear of losing their
positions. Journalists admitted they feared retribution
should they print anything negative about Mayawati. One
journalist claimed that all civil servants' and most
journalists' phones are tapped. Politically, contacts noted
that while Mayawati's support from Brahmins and Muslims may
be waning, she remains extremely popular with her Dalit vote
base. Mayawati is obsessed with becoming Prime Minister and
the BSP will spend huge sums in next year's national polls.
With all signs pointing to another coalition government in
Delhi, Mayawati could be a powerbroker and perhaps even a
king (or queen) maker. End Summary.
L'Etat, C'est Moi
-----------------
¶2. (C) Poloff me a host of contacts in the UP capital,
Lucknow, as well as Kanpur and Varanasi. Those contacts that
must deal with the government (which in state-centric India
means nearly everyone) remarked on Mayawati's vice-like grip
on all levers of power. All decisions must run through
Mayawati or her very small coterie of advisors. One Lucknow
journalist related a story in which a State Minister was
forced to do sit-ups in front of her as penance for not first
asking permission to call on UP's governor. Mayawati forced
a civil servant to resign when she learned his daughter had
joined the Congress Party in Delhi. Other than BSP
stalwarts, none expressed an even begrudging approval of
Mayawati's rule.
Institutionalized Corruption
----------------------------
¶3. (C) Most contacts acknowledged that the law Qnd order
situation in the state had improved somewhat from the
previous Samajwadi Party (SP) government of Mulayam Singh
Yadav. However, this is not because Mayawati has put more
police on the streets or reduced corruption. Rival mafia
gangs shooting each other in the streets while vying for
dominance characterized the SP's rule. Now Mayawati has
institutionalized corruption with competitive fealty payments
to her replacing shootouts. Just to run as a BSP
parliamentary candidate costs roughly 250,000 dollars. This
does not ensure victory of course, but with the BSP likely to
field candidates in over 300 constituencies nationally, it
does ensure Mayawati's campaign coffers will be full, in
addition to all her other revenue sources including payoffs
and kickbacks from almost every interaction that large
businesses have with the state government, standard practices
in UP. In comparison, several commercial contacts in Lucknow
and Kanpur spoke glowingly of the business climate in Gujarat
and its Chief Minister, Narendra Modi.
Eccentric Paranoia
------------------
¶4. (C) Mayawati's full majority victory in May 2007 UP State
Assembly elections left her beholden to no one and has
allowed her to act on her eccentricities, whims and
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insecurities. When she needed new sandals, her private jet
flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand.
According to Lucknow journalists, she employs nine cooks (two
to cook, the others to watch over them) and two food tasters.
She fears assassination and demanded from the central
government the highest level of protection available. In
addition to this outsized security apparatus, she constructed
a private road from her residence to her office, which is
cleaned immediately after her multiple vehicle convoy reaches
its destination. India has seen such political personalities
before, and never failed to deal with them eventually at the
ballot box.
Press Cowered
-------------
¶5. (C) Mayawati rarely speaks with the media and when she
does hold a press conference, questions are not allowed.
More worrying, Lucknow journalists claimed the government has
tapped their phones as well as those of civil servants. Most
civil servants now refuse to talk to the press. Reporters
fear losing their jobs should they print anything negative
about Mayawati. Caving to political pressure, the Hindustan
Times removed its Lucknow correspondent after she published a
satirical piece about the Chief Minister. The newspaper's
owners also operate sugar mills and chemical factories in UP.
Caste Politics Dominates
------------------------
¶6. (C) Comment: A coalition of Dalits and Brahmins (and a
small percentage of Muslims) elected Mayawati in 2007.
Dalits will remain with Mayawati regardless of poor
governance, simply because the fact that one of their own is
Chief Minister provides them heretofore unimaginable pride.
With the virtual collapse of the Congress Party and the
weakening of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in UP over the
last several years, the higher castes fled to the BSP to end
the lawlessness of the SP's rule. But after more than a
year, only a narrow sliver of Brahmins who are close to
Mayawati's Brahmin advisor (and virtual number two), Satish
Mishra, have seen any return for their support. They could
go back to the Congress or the BJP. Though the Congress
Party secured the support of the SP for the June 22
confidence vote over the Indo-US civil nuclear initiative
(Ref A), the two parties appear to be making little headway
yet in reaching a seat-sharing agreement for UP. If the
parties form a strong alliance, they can credibly challenge
the BSP. However, if terrorist bombings continue, many
Hindus will likely polarize to the BJP and Muslims will flock
back to their traditional SP home. In this case the SP would
see little to gain from a pre-poll alliance with Congress and
would prefer to play the field.
¶7. (C) Comment Continued: As for Mayawati's dream of becoming
Prime Minister, the most plausible scenario would entail weak
performances nationwide by both the Congress Party and the
BJP and a strong showing by Mayawati and other regional
parties. This would allow the BSP to dictate terms of a
third front (non-Congress, non-BJP) coalition in Delhi.
While inflation, development and terrorism will be the
"issues" in the coming national polls, caste remains the DNA
of UP politics, and no one has demonstrated more ability at
playing caste politics than Mayawati. End Comment.
MULFORD
यह विकिलीक्स का खुलासा नहीं 2008 में की गई पत्रकारों की टिप्पणियां हैं।
