Brother Waman Meshram and the BAMCEF comrades. Thank you for inviting me to the BAMCEF session again after over 10 years.
Happy also to note your organisation headed by Brother Waman Meshram has become largest of the country’s different BAMCEF units representing govt. employees.
EDUCATED DALITS FAILED
The last time I addressed your conference was over 12 years back. And it was at Pune.Much water has gone down the bridge and the country is going from bad to worse. The Congress Party heading the UPA coalition has proved more hostile to Dalit-Bahujans than the BJP which is our honest enemy while the Congress is our disguised enemy. Between the two we must prefer the open enemy. The ruling class will always do what it wants. But we its victims are not doing what we want. Sorry to say we have failed.
The educated, employed class among Dalits, who should have been in the forefront of the struggle against our Brahminical oppressors, has joined the oppressors.
RUSH FOR POLITICAL POWER
Babasaheb, our Father and the “Father of India”, is forgotten. As the Editor of Dalit Voice for about 30 years and having circulation all over India, we know what is happening in India. Today “our” educated Dalit brothers are rushing to capture political power, wrongly quoting Babasaheb that “political power is the master key to unlock all doors”. (DV Edit Aug.1, 2010 “Mystery of the master-key”).
Those who say this are wrongly quoting Babasaheb.
What he said was that only a thorough-going socio-cultural struggle will lead us to political power. Those who rush to seek political power have to give up the socio- cultural struggle.
In Tamil Nadu, DMK has been in power for umpteen number of years. Karunanidhi became CM 4- 5 times. But he could not touch one hair of the Brahmins in TN.
“THREE COMMANDMENTS” MISQUOTED
Even in your conference pamphlets Inaugural speech at the Karnataka state BAMCEF conference in Bangalore you have misquoted the “Three Commandments” of Babasaheb. What he said was “Educate, Agitate, Organize”. But you have put “Organise” in the middle. We call this as Babasaheb’s “Three Commandments”, but you must know that the three weapons given to us by Babasaheb are taken from Budhism. They are “Budham, Dhammam, Sangham”,
which are Pali words.
MEDITATION
Babasaheb borrowed it from Budhism and called it “Educate, Agitate, Organise”. Please correct this mistake as our enemy will use it and further confuse our people.
Some of our educated Dalits have interpreted Dhammam as “meditation”. Babasaheb never did meditation. Has anybody seen Babasaheb meditating? Does anybody have a photograph of Babasaheb doing meditation? In his book, Buddha & His Dhamma, he makes this clear.
ART OF DECEIVING
Meditation has helped the Brahmins to capture our people, making them better slaves. We have in Bangalore a top fraud heading a multi-million dollar empire called the “Art of Deceiving”. Instead of fighting the enemy, our educated Dalits have joined the enemy, wasting their precious time on meditation. Has Babasaheb done meditation? Has anybody seen him doing meditation? From where did our “educated” Dalits get the impression that Babasaheb did meditation? Meditation is for the ruling upper castes
However, I am happy to note that BAMCEF has not only identified the enemy but fiercely fighting. Congratulations. (cheers)
Your pamphlet on “Introduction to BAMCEF” is wonderful.
BRAHMINS & JEWS
It quotes an American professor saying that “the Brahmins are foreigners and that they are of Eurasian origin”. You are right. In DV, we have made an extensive research and I have written two books saying the Brahmins and the Jews are blood brothers.
Brahmins are misleading us saying that our enemies are the country’s rich. This is the “class theory” of marxism which misled us for 30 years. Marxism is the other name for Brahminişm.
In India, it is the Brahmins who control the entire financial structure. I met a young Brahmin reading the Wall Street Journal in a London Hotel. I asked him why he was reading this paper. He said he wanted to enter the financial sector. Banking, stock exchange and market manipulation are the specialised field of Brahmins. In India, the Reserve Bank, which is the banker’s bank and where currency notes are printed, is owned by the government. But in America, the Federal Reserve is a private bank whose office-bearers are all Jews. Though our RBI is government-owned, the Brahmins occupy all the top positions and posts in all the banks.
BRAHMINS ARE EURASIANS
When you say that the Brahmins are Eurasians you are absolutely correct. Very rarely a Dalit organization has the courage to say this. Unless we identify the enemy whom are we going to fight? We cannot fight in the air. The enemy must be identified first. Babasaheb, Periyar and Phule all identified the enemy. But some Dalit organizations still have not done it. Once I attended a meeting in which one person said: “How long we must keep on criticizing the Brahmins? | think we must stop this. Brahmins are no longer our enemies”. Look at our Dalit leaders buttering Brahmins.
BRAHMINS & JEWS AS BLOOD BROTHERS
But see the position and the power the Brahmins hold in this country. In West Bengal, where the communists ruled for 30 years, the Chief Minister is a Brahmin. E.M.S. Namboodiripad, whom I knew intimately, was a 150% Brahmin. So the Brahmins control the Communist Party, the Congress Party and they have infiltrated into socialism and even Bahujan Samaj Party. They are everywhere. Where there is sugar there will be ants. In Dalit Voice, we have written that the Brahmins and the Jews are blood brothers. We have to fight them.
We have to be anti-Brahmin and anti-Brahminism.
In Maharashtra, every Chief Minister has been a Maratha. Yet the Marathas say they are backwards. The Marathas say that they need reservation. I visited Pune soon after the attack on Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute by some Marathas. They are against Brahmins but not against Brahminism. I will give you the example of Tamil Nadu. There was a Justice Party in Tamil Nadu led by the Mudaliars, the Reddys, and the Naidus. They said that non-Brahmins must get power. Because of the struggle of Periyar and DMK the non-Brahmins came to power in TN. After coming to power, however, they started kicking only our people. Today the Mudaliars, the Vellalas, the Naidus and the Chettiars are one with Brahmins.
EDUCATED DALITS BETRAYED THE COMMUNITY
In your pamphlet titled “Introduction to BAMCEF” (p.4), you say you are organising only the “educated class” and say the “educated class is nothing but the intellectual class”.
If this is true, this educated class should have carried out the mission of Babasaheb.
Did they do it? I am sorry to say as the Editor of Dalit Voice the Dalit-educated class has disappointed us.
Babasaheb himself said at the fag end of his life.
GOVT. BABUS NOT INTELLECTUALS
The definition of an intellectual is one who earns his living out of his intellectual work. This class includes writers, artists, teachers, singers, poets, teachers etc.
Govt. employees do not come under this class. Even journalists can’t be strictly called intellectuals. They may be semi-intellectuals.
Yet in another place you say Dalit employees being govt. servants cannot participate in political activities. You are wrong.
ABHINAV BHARAT
The Abhinav Bharat Brahmins who did the Malegaon bombing, now in jail, are all govt. servants. Some of them like Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit are serving Army officers.
How did they actively participate in Malegaon anti-Muslim riots? How did they participate in political activities and become terrorists?
Participating in socio-cultural work is not political work. Lt. Col. Purohit’s work in Malegaon anti-Muslim riots amounts to political work.
Sorry, please don’t take my remarks as criticism of BAMCEF.
Dalit Voice is great supporter of BAMCEF and its chief, Brother Waman Meshram, is our good old friend.
MEDIA CENTRE
We assure our full support. Before we end, we want to tell Brother Meshram that any socio- cultural organisation involved in the work of the oppressed must have its own media.
We want to assure you that DV will be too glad to associate ourselves – as your work and our work is the same. We thank you for inviting us to BAMCEF session and helping to reconnect the two organisation – BAMCEF and Dalit Voice.
DV on the intellectual front and BAMCEF as a mass movement can do a lot to bring about the long delayed cultural revolution.
