This is expected to be condoned because of caste considerations. In fact the greatest damage done to the national fabric can be attributed to caste leaders such as Mulayam Singh Yadav and Kanshi Ram in Uttar Pradesh and Laloo Prasad Yadav in Bihar. In the name of caste the state treasuries have been emptied of cash, administration has been ruthlessly devalued and efficiency reduced to a joke. A man like Laloo Prasad spends lakhs of rupees on the marriage of his daughter and nobody has the temerity to question the source of his finances. The man is barred from occupying the Chief Ministership but he nominates his wife to the post.
Criticism is muted.
Like the Dickensian character, Chief Minister Farouk Abdullah is asking for more. The state has turned out to be a bottomless well. The excuse given is rising unemployment of the youth. But the youth are not encouraged to leave the state and find fresh fields and pastures new. Thousands of Malayalees flock to the Middle Eastern countries to earn their living, leaving their families behind.