Bangalore: Dalit Voice has been a greate admirer of Sister Phoolan Devi and we had even described her as India’s greatest human rights fighter for women.
We also remember our Editor’s visit to the Gwaliar Jail on BSP chief Kanshi Ram’s request to sound her on contesting Parliament on BSP ticket. The suggestion to field Sister Phoolan was made by the Editor and Kanshi Ram gladly accepted it. What followed is now history.
Strength in caste identity: Phoolan, a victim of Hindu India’s deep-rooted caste politics, has proved in her death that the country’s road to socialism is only through a bloody caste war and more caste war. And that to wage such a “caste war” against the minority but powerful upper castes, who today became rulers with our consent, the oppressed Dalits, Backward Castes, Tribals etc., who are in a big majority, will have to strengthen themselves through “caste identity”. This is the lesson left by Phoolan in her tragic death in Delhi on July 25, 2001.
Phoolan, a Backward Caste Mallah, was shot dead-by the Thakurs. Doesn’t matter. Thakurs form only 12% of the UP population. They have joined the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) to protect their jati interests. They have forgotten the dwarf Brahmin Parasurama’s crime of slaughtering the entire race of Thakurs (Kshatriyas). Brahmins form 13% of the population. Together, the two form 25% to which has to be added the minuscule Banias, Kayasths and Jats. Put together, all these upper castes do not come up to even 35% of the state population.
Thakurs beware: The rest are our people. Dalits alone come to about 23%, Muslims 17%, Yadavas 9%. Then there are many other BC jatis, Tribals etc. All these are deprived jatis which have nothing to lose except their chains. It is now their turn to establish their self-respect.
The Brahmins, Thakurs, Banias, Kayasths and Jats became rulers by consolidating their jati through “caste identity”.
The Thakurs got the courage to kill Phoolan only when their jatwala Rajnath Singh became the Chief Minister of UP. The Thakurs must be now ready to face the music.
Media menace: The upper castes are thriving. And ruling only by dividing the Dalits, BCs and Muslims. The brahminical media is playing a leading role in divided and keeping us perpetuating this unjust brahminical rule.
The state of UP is the country’s sociological laboratory to experiment the power of “caste identity” under the leadership of our able Social Scientist Kanshi Ram.
The time has come for the deprived SC/ST/BCs and Muslims to ponder on all these issues and seriously plan to challenge this unjust upper caste rule. If this caste-ridden racist Brahminical Social Order must end, then Phoolan’s spirit must be restored. Only such an action will be the most fitting tribute to the departed Sister Phoolan who died for us. UP elections are coming. This is the right time to show our strength.
Muslims oppose Ladakh Budhists
Leh: The demand to make Ladakh a union territory (UT) is confined to the Budhists of Leh district, and it is losing momentum with the opposition from the majority Muslims. The Muslim population in the Ladakh region is 1,11,729 while the Budhist population 1,5,956. But the president of the Ladakh Budhists Association (LBA), Tsering Samphel, who frequents Jammu and Delhi rather than Srinagar, says “we are talking on behalf of the entire Ladakh”. (Hindu, Aug.8, 2001).
