So far your complaint has been that Dalits are not getting angry. So frustrated were you, that you had even resigned to the fact that they will never get angry and in such frustration, you had even begun to encourage Muslim anger instead of waiting for Dalits.
But now there is evidence that Dalits are getting violent which is an extremely good development. In Jharkhand, Dalit Maoists have formed their own Maoist party called Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) after splitting Telugu Brahmin Varavara Rao’s savarna Maoist Party along caste lines.
Brahmin Maoists killed: This newly formed Dalit Maoist Party is killing Brahminical Maoists. Besides, they hate Nepal’s Brahmin fake Maoist Prachanda, also and have accused him of being a fake and a traitor.
On the top of this the Cochin-based Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) in Kerala also seems to be taking up violent resistance. But DV has been ignoring these two developments. This is my charge against you. Such genuinely revolutionary Dalit resistance must be encouraged to physically fight Brahminical crooks. You must also popularize your “caste identity theory and the “caste war theory”. An armed, bloody, violent caste-based war for grabbing water and women seem to be inevitable and unavoidable by 2020 or so, when India is expected to run out of water.
Dalits are certainly getting angry and they are getting violent also
J. Devika with inputs from Mythri Prasad Aleyamma adds:
(http://www.countercurrents.org/devika141209.htm).
DV silence: Utterly stupefying news of attacks on Dalit colonies, almost next door to Kerala’s capital city and nerve centre of Malayalee politics, and that too by a minor anti-political force that has a legacy of anti-South Indian hatred-the Shiva Sena. And of course when one is confronted with the hard, stony silence of almost all sections of the media about this including Dalit – Voice. The mystery of the murder of an elderly. innocent morning-walker in Varkala, a town close to Trivandrum, remains a mystery. The police story is bunkum. The Hindu press always is anti-Dalit. Activists who have dared have been heckled and hounded, even senior and respected human rights activists like B.R.P. Bhaskar by the Shiva Sena. Meanwhile violence continues to be unleashed against the DHRM.
Attack on Dalit identity: There are also reports of violence against Dalits in colonies all over Kerala where people have left the CPM to join the Kerala Pulaya Maha Sabha or the BSP.
But the violence against the DHRM by the Shiva Sena and the police looks different because it appears to be a direct attack on the Dalit effort to construct the Dalit identity.
DHRM wants a separate identity for Dalits, a new dress code which provoked much violence, group singing, cooking for each other’s family, introduction of a unisex dress code of jeans and black T-shirts with Dr. Ambedkar’s image. The opposition to the dress code reminds the Brahminical anger against “lower caste”. No wonder the panchayat, police, Shiva Sena and other major political forces have all ganged up against DHRM. Any serious effort to resist upper castes will be put up down violently. DHRM is a Dalit organisation formed about two years back at Ernakulam with Selvaraj is leader. Meanwhile, Santosh Rana, a noted naxalite leader active in the Jharkhand region, speaks about the Lalgarh region where 30% of the population is Tribal, 20% Dalits and the rest OBC. The Kudmi-Mahatos are the largest among the OBCs. The Mahatos, Bagals are actually semi-tribals. The tribals constitute 30% of the population of Jhargram. The people of this region have very little participation in govt.
Landmine blast: In Nov., WB Chief Minister had gone to Salboni to inaugurate an SEZ-steel plant of Jindals. The Maoist squads operating in the area blasted a land-mine on his way back. It missed the target but the govt. ordered night-raids which ignited a massive uprising of the people led by the Santhals. The All- India Association of Majhis was leading the struggle. The movement was so strong that the police had to withdraw from the sensitive areas. It was a great victory of the people.
