Raju Thomas from Kottayam, Kerala, writes (DV Oct. 16, p.7) that the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) headed by Dr. Ramdas’s has given the leadership to a very powerful Ambedkarite Dalit, R. Elumalai, by making him general secretary of the PMK. This may be unbelievable and unconvincing to the BCs all over India and the Ezhava BCs in Kerala. But it is a fact. The BCs will be able to follow this example of the PMK if only they study Ambedkar’s and accept Babasaheb Ambedkar as their liberator. Will the Ezhava backward castes headed by the former Governor of Gujarat, K.K. Viswanathan, as its President, and the General Secretry Pratap Singh, show that much honesty and sincerity to give their leadership to a Dalit who is a stainless Ambedkarite? R. Elumalai had been putting much effort to teach Ambedkar’s to the BC Vanniyars of Tamil Nadu who constitute about 30% of TN population. And DV too deserves credit for achieving this great task of Dalit-BC unity in TN. Thus, the long-standing dream of Dr. Ambedkar is fulfilled at least in TN. Other States can follow this example.
Kerala Nazi party Muscles: BCs will succeed in their Mandal fight only if they make the Dalits lead the movement (DV Oct. 16, and Nov.1, 1990). But I have my own doubt if the BCs will do this because the Ezhava BCs in Kerala are more handguides than the original Hindus. They still keep limitless hatred and hostility towards the SCs and other religious communities. In Kerala, it is the BCs (the artisans, and the Ezhavas) who are the muscles of all Nazi parties. The BC leaders should educate their people and ask them to quit all Hindu parties and Hindu organisations. Remember: BCs are neither Shudra’s nor Hindus. Fighting against brahminism and at the same time practising brahminism is nothing but the act of dogs. Even a dog acts wisely when sombody stones it. The dog never bites the stone that hits it. Rather it chases the man who threw the stone. The BCs should have at least this much wisdom of the dog. Why the BCs follow brahminical Hinduism? It is the very Aryan/savarna Hinduism which made the BCs and the SCs untouchable. It is the Aryan/ savarnas who are opposing the Mandal Commission. Stop practising brahminism and throw away all Aryan gods and goddesses from your homes. The problem with BCs is that they do not have a god to keep in their homes. The Ezhava BCs have at least Sree Naarayan Guru. Let all BCs accept Dr. Ambedkar as their leader and Messiah. I am fully confident that in case the BCs and the SCs in Kerala quit the Hindu Nazi parties, in the next election the BC/SC/Christian and Muslim alliance will rule the State which had been once ruled by the Dalits in the ancient Chera Nadu. All the BCs and the SCs should be de-hinduised.
Ezhava girls with bindi: I have seen at Kottayam (7.10.1990) that during the Mandal Protection Rally all the Ezhava BCs with bindi on their forehead. Two girls leading the rally wore mulakkacha as the Nair virgin girls used to wear a piece of linen cloth over their chest while receiving the Namboothiri’s. Shamme, utter shame for the Ezhavas!! Why are they adopting the brahminical methods? The BC Ezhavas and the SCs must reject Aryan rituals, way of dressing, their religion and gods. Even the names. Fighting the oppressor means fighting the religion- cultural values also. I am glad that M.K. Raghavan had openly appealed to all 27% of the Ezhavas to stop worshipping Rama and not to go to the Aryan temples. He recalled how the BCs unknowingly worship Vishnu for 365 days and at the same time remember Mahabali, the greatest ruler of Kerala, only once a year. Raghavan seems to have understood Ambedkar’s because of reading DV. He had long back declared that the “Ezhavas are not Hindus and never been Hindus” (at Vaikom on 5.5.1985). Raghavan also challenged the Shudra Nair, Raman Pillai, ratham puller of Rama by asking him if Raman Pillai was aware of the fact that it was the very Rama, whose ratham he was pulling, who beheaded Shambuka for learning penance and Shamuka belonged to the ancestors of Raman Pillai, a shudra. The four Aryan varnas being foreigners will naturally forget all their internal contradictions and let the shudra, the worst victims of brahminism lick the feet of brahminism. Even traditionally there is story in which the Shudra Nair’s have to eat the panda’s, a kind of rice powder spread on a wooden plate, and the Brahmin woman sits on it during her menstruation and the Nair has to eat this.
