State election could see caste-based party become national force

Описание: (4 Feb 2012) SHOTLIST
Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh - 1 February 2012
1. Incumbent Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati, who uses one name, waving to the crowd
2. Wide of the stage
3. Wide of crowd of women greeting Mayawati
4. Close of model elephant (BSP party symbol)
5. Man with elephant model on shoulder shouting slogan: UPSOUND (Hindi) "Sister, move forward, we are with you!"
6. Women dancing
7. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Mayawati, Bahujan Samaj Party Leader:
"Congress party and the other anti-dalit and caste oriented parties could not digest the popularity of the country's only government run by the daughter of a dalit."
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh - 2 February 2012
8. Wide of park built by Mayawati's government
9. Various of statues of elephants covered with plastic sheets
Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh - 1 February 2012
10. Mayawati seated in an armchair
11. Pan over crowd
12. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Mayawati, Bahujan Samaj Party Leader:
"The opposition parties may try to woo you with various promises in their election manifestos in order to get your votes."
13. Mid of supporter Ram Pyari in audience
14. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Ram Pyari, Bahujan Samaj Party Supporter:
"(I wish) for us to progress, for awareness to come. I wish for all prejudices that have been continuing to come to an end."
Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh - 31 January 2012
15. Congress Party general secretary Rahul Gandhi waving to the crowds
16. Close up of man wearing Congress Party sunshade
17. Wide of rally
18. Wide of Rahul Gandhi addressing crowd from stage
19. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Rahul Gandhi, Congress Party General Secretary:
"The money that was meant for the farmers, for the poor, was gobbled up by the elephant."
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh - 2 February 2012
20. Wide of exterior of Samajwadi Party office
21. Low angle of cutouts of leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav
Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh - 31 January 2012
22. Side profile of Samajwadi Party candidate Radheyshyam Jaiswal addressing rally
23. Mid of people listening
24. Wide of rally
25. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Radheyshyam Jaiswal, Samajwadi Party candidate:
"There can be no government more cruel than this one."
26. Wide of thatched hut
27. Wide of villager Chandrashekhar and members of his family
28. Close of his hands shelling peas
29. Pan from battery to the sole lightbulb in the hut
30. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Chandrashekhar, villager:
"When everybody votes for his caste, I will also vote for a low caste candidate."
31. Wide of village
32. Mid of family huddled around fire inside one room
33. Mid of boy eating, smoke rising in the foreground
STORYLINE
One of India's most powerful and controversial political leaders could see her party become a national force if she wins a state election starting this week.
For the past five years, Mayawati has ruled as a veritable queen over the gargantuan state of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in the world.
Now, the bottom caste dalit leader is working to convince voters to choose another five years of her brand of caste politics in an election with broad implications for the nation as a whole.
"(The) Congress Party and the other anti-dalit and caste oriented parties could not digest the popularity of the country's only government run by the daughter of a dalit," Mayawati, who uses only one name, told a rally in the town of Sitapur, about 60 miles (90 kilometres) north of Lucknow.
Her low caste supporters cheer her as a defense against the prejudice that keeps them at the bottom of the ladder.
"There can be no government more cruel than this one," he said.

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