Cyberia slams Raghuraj’s entry

LUCKNOW: Akhilesh Yadav’s elevation got a mixed response from the online community. While the netizens welcomed the youngest chief minister of UP, they also reacted sharply to the selection of tainted Raja Bjaiyya, facing multiple criminal cases, as a minister. The decision was widely criticized as Akhilesh was termed as ‘promise-breaker’.
As soon as the swearing-in ceremony started, Twitter was flooded with tweets of #Raja Bhaiya.The love that the youngest CM of the state got from the cyber world was left to cold air as netizens started comparing the ‘old wine in a new bottle’ . @OneandOnlyIndie tweets, “Raja Bhaiyya’s return symbolises that Akhilesh is nothing but the Old wine in New Bottle.” @incorrigiblepam tweets, “Youngest #CM begins his office by defending criminals :(“ Similar reactions were from others as well. @RupaSubramanya tweets, “Lovely. Akhilesh breaks promise, makes notorious Raja Bhaiyya min… rumored to ve once fed his enemies to pet crocodiles. #developmentpolitics (sic).” Aasif Khan writes on Facebook, “Khandani parampara hai, taking criminal in his cabinet is a tradition he is following!”
@RaviGhiyar tweets, “Raja Bhaiya is a minister under Akhilesh Yadav. Hail law and order and good governance ! God Save UP !” Facebooker Abhishek Prasad writes, “What a great comeback for Raja Bhaiya .... from being declared a terrorist by Mayawati to now being inducted as a minister by the CM whose top priority is law and order!!! So people of UP who voted SP, get ready for the return of the Goonda Raj! If this is the start , what lies further ahead?”
A few tried to find logic behind the decision. As Vedant Singh Rathore writes on Facebook, “This is UTTAR PRADESH .... yaha BAHUBALI ka hi raj chalta .... nothings gonna change here.... Raja Bhaiya has been with SP for a long time and it was clear that his appointment as a cabinet minister was necessary..... Sarkar chalane k liye Goondo ka saath saari parties leti hai .... BSP k time pe Bahubali DP Yadav ka naam bhi saamne aaya tha , but kisi ko fark pada ?? nahi ... ”
Punsters too were of the opinion that this is something Akhilesh could have best avoided. @alok174 tweets, “maintaining law & order with Raja bhaiyya is like hoping to win oscars with a Bhojpuri film #akhilesh #up (sic)” @TheRadioJoker tweets, “RAJA Bhaiya is now a UP minister. What’s the big deal? Back in school the most notorious boy always used to be the monitor (sic)”
Just a few days back, Facebook was flooded with congratulatory messages and was in agenda-setting mode for the Yadav junior, but the mood and sentiments of the Facebookers took a paradigm shift on Thursday. Puneet Sharma writes, “wlcm gundaraj again, lookin like dis govt ll also be remote controlled govt by mulayam singh yadav , akhilesh yadav was just introduced for vote politics only, majority ministers who take oath today are near & dear of mulayam.. (sic)”
This is a major setback for the Samajwadi Party and Akhilesh Yadav in particular as he was riding on a very favourable cyber movement till now. Since the declaration of results, social media was full of positive responses for the youngest CM of the state and hash-tags related to him always had drawn favourable responses in Twitter . #Akhilesh was trending worldwide when he was declared as Samajwadi Party’s CM candidate. But, as Rashmi Goda writes on Facebook, “It’s too early to write him down... ”