Inaugural speech at the BAMCEF state convention of Karnataka at Gulbarga on Nov.22, 2009:
Brother Waman Meshram and brothers and sisters of Bahujan Samaj. Thank you for inviting me to inaugurate the first Karnataka state convention of the BAMCEF in this remote, backward Hyderabad-Karnataka town.
We have been keenly watching the steady growth of BAMCEF under the leadership of Brother Waman Meshram, who has made it the country’s largest organisation of Bahujan employees. Kanshi Ram started the BAMCEF, but after some years he got fed up. Organising the Babus is a difficult job. But Waman Meshram somehow proved successful.
GREATNESS OF SHYAM SUNDAR
The venue chosen for your first state convention at Gulbarga is very appropriate because it is from here the late Shyam Sundar launched his powerful Bhim Sena which inspired the thinking of all Dalits and Muslims of Hyderabad-Karnataka. Bhim Sena turned into a militant organization. We have made a deep study of the life, struggle and achievements of Shyam Sunder, a Mahar (Dalit) hailing from Nanded in Maharashtra, who later became a powerful leader of Dalits and Muslims under the rule of the Nizam of Hyderabad. We have published his famous book, “They Burn“, and read all his works in English. After making a deep study of Shyam Sunder we have ranked him next only to Babasaheb Ambedkar, “The Father of India”.
GANDHI – OUR ENEMY NO.1
To the Bahujan Samaj comprising over 85% of the Indian population, Babasaheb is the “Father of the Nation”. Not Gandhi. Brahminical counter-revolutionaries, however, say M.K. Gandhi is their “Father of Nation”. But to us, Gandhi is the Enemy No.1.
If today India has become a hell on earth, the credit goes to this Gujarati Bania. Though Brahmins killed Gandhi, his ghost is still kept alive by the very same Brahminists to fool us. We must bury this Gandhi 100 feet below. (cheers). As I am not a politician but a writer and journalist, I have to make so many important points. I want you note down these points.
I want to refer to two most important subjects which have completely confused today’s youth belonging mainly to the Dalits, OBC and Muslim communities.
(1) The first one is about the educated and employed Dalits – beneficiaries of the constitutional reservations.
(2) The second one is about the very powerful propaganda that “political power is the master key that opens any lock“.
As the Editor of Dalit Voice, the country’s oldest journal- now 30 years old – and the largest circulated paper, we have suffered a lot because of these two powerful propaganda weapons used by our Brahminical enemies to weaken, and virtually kill, our revolutionary fervor. The entire media of the country is in the hands of the 2% Brahminical micro-minority. And this media is playing havoc.
MEDIA CONTROL
I, too, was working in one such national English daily, Indian Express, for 25 years, before starting the Dalit Voice. By this time Dalit Voice circulation should have crossed 10,000. But our Brahminical enemy used the above two weapons, not only to check DV’s growing popularity, but also kill the anger of the country’s most revolutionary people – Dalits.
Muslims have also become the victims of this poisonous manuwadi media. Before I go into this subject I want you to understand how powerful we are number-wise. Please take down our population statistics, which is a closely guarded secret. (See the table) The last category (No.3) comprises the Hindus. That means Hindus form only 15% of our population.
No social scientist, historian or even a journalist will give you these figures. Because it reveals the shocking strength of the Bahujan Samaj. Please take down these statistics and circulate them.
CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET
These statistics are a closely guarded secret which only the Brahmins know. They will not disclose it because it is dangerous. “Know the Truth and Truth shall set you free”, says the Bible. Together, the Bahujan Samaj becomes 85% of the population. Of this, the Dalits 20% and Muslim 15% are the most revolutionary.
Dalits are the fire and Muslims are the petrol. If petrol poured into the burning fire, what will happen? Brahminism will be burnt alive.
Brahmins are the only people to know these facts. That is why these population figures are not revealed. I have published these statistics many times in Dalit Voice and also said it at many public meetings. To this day, no Brahmin social scientist has challenged these figures.
EDUCATED DALITS BETRAY BABASAHEB
In the light of these figures I will now try to examine the two deadly weapons used by the Brahminical rulers to kill our revolutionary movement.
No.1: refers the betrayal of Babasaheb by our educated and employed Dalit brethren. The constitution came into being in 1951 which is when the job reservation for SC/ST began. It is now 59 years but those who secured the reserved jobs are only about 5% out of the Dalit population of 20%. But in the jobs for sweepers and scavengers, it is 100% implementation because none other than our people are ready.
All-India services like IAS/IPS etc. have to statutorily implement the SC/ST quota. But there are several fields for which there is no reservation for SC/ST like higher judiciary, scientific services, defense etc.
CONSTITUTION SUBVERTED
That is how the ruling Brahmins have subverted the constitution itself and cheated Babasaheb. So we have only about 5% reservation among SC which include sweepers scavengers. and Brahmins have very effectively sabotaged the constitution in the name of merit and efficiency. I have written a book itself on this subject, Merit My Foot. All our books are kept outside for sale.
When the Brahmins have sabotaged the SC/ST reservation itself, why our educated Dalit youths are not getting angry?
MARRYING BRAHMIN GIRLS
Just because some Dalits are allowed into government service, why do they forget Babasaheb, because of whom they have been able to secure the job?
Babasaheb himself has said in his last days with tears in his eyes that the “educated Dalits of India have betrayed me”. Yes. This is a fact.
Many of our Dalit boys have married Brahmin girls. They have forgotten not only Babasaheb but even the very community. I know scores of IAS – IPS officers, judges. They have no courage to speak. Brahmins and all other upper castes run their jati hostels for their jati children. They also run educational institutions. But we have not seen any such thing in our community.
DALIT ACADEMICS DISAPPOINT
Look at BAMCEF itself, which is the organization of governement employees. We find hardly any enthusiasm. Our Dalit academics are a total disappointment. Look at the Brahmins. They have condemned and rejected the RSS itself for failing to fulfil its promise of establishing the Hindu Rashtra, meaning Brahmin Rashtra.
Abhinav Bharat, Ram Sene, Sanathan Samstha and many others are not under the RSS. Lt Col. Purohit, a serving officer in the Army, has condemned RSS itself for not crushing the Dalits and Muslims. See how angry the Brahmins are. They have rejected L.K. Advani who built BJP and demolished the Babri Masjid.
But our people, who are treated as the slaves of India, are not even getting angry. We have not only become slaves – but slaves enjoying our slavery. What a fall.
By this time our Dalit youth should have turned into tigers and lions – eating our enemies. But today we have become lambs and sheep to be slaughtered and made Biryani. (loud cheers)
VIPASSANA POISON
Who can save such a people? As the Editor of Dalit Voice, I have the picture of whole country. It is simply pathetic, heart-rending. Many a time I silently weep over the way our educated Dalit officers drawing a monthly salary of Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 50,000, have betrayed their own father, the Father of India. They have taken to Vipassana, Sabarimalai, Tirupati visits. Who can save a people who do not want to save themselves?
No.2: Now, I come to the second serious mistake we have committed under the Brahmin influence. All over the world oppressed people resort to struggle to recover their lost human rights. Islam has a beautiful Arabic word for struggle: Jihad to which Brahmins have given a wrong meaning.
Struggle is going on in Palestine, Kashmir, among the Blacks in Africa. Even in Nagaland. All over the world the oppressed people struggle for their human rights. In India, one vital section which has completely lost its human rights is the Dalits.
SLAVERY IN INDIA GOING STRONG
Slavery is abolished all over the world, but Hindu India is proudly displaying its slavery.
Dalit Panthers was the first in India to launch such a struggle to recover our lost human right. But the crooked Brahmins who have infiltrated every movement of the oppressed, tried to mislead the Dalit struggle for human rights by quoting Babasaheb Ambedkar saying “political power is the master key that will open all the locks”.
I have read all the books of Babasaheb not once but many times.
STRUGGLE FORGOTTEN
We have one page devoted to “Thus Spake Ambedkar” in every issue of Dalit Voice. But so far we have not been able to trace where exactly Babasaheb has made such a statement. We have consulted many experts but nobody could trace this particular sentence. In the book, Annihilation of Caste, Babasaheb made it very clear that power can be secured only after struggle and sacrifice.
R.S.S. DOESN’T BELIEVE IN NON-VIOLENCE
But in India, all the oppressed people are told to form political parties, contest elections and come to power.
Tell us one state or even portion of a state where the oppressed have been able to secure their human rights by “capturing political power”.
Brahmins who are about 2% have no chief minister, hardly any political power. How are they ruling and controlling, even our breathing? Why our people are not understanding this simple truth?
The struggle for Kashmir’s self-determination is India’s oldest and single biggest struggle. The oppressed Kashmiris are fighting and dying daily to achieve Azadi (liberation). Still they are not able to achieve anything.
Maoists are fighting and dying since decades in the Eastern part of India.
They are able to spread their net over about 20% of the country. But the Brahminical rulers are using police to gun them down. Even army is getting ready. In the North-East, the Mongoloid tribals are fighting not by forming political parties but through armed struggle.
The Assamese Brahminical party of ULFA has taken to violent struggle. RSS and the Abhinav Bharat Brahmin terrorists do not believe in non-violence, nor in contesting elections to achieve their Brahmana Rahstra. Give us one example in the whole of India or outside where the deprived destitute were able to recover their human rights through the ballot box? Political power is no power. The real power has passed into the Brahmin who control the media, judiciary, finance, industry etc.
Yes. Mayawati is able to capture power for BSP in UP.
But twice before she captured UP and lost. We are great supporters of Kanshi Ram and Mayawati but we refused to join BSP only because of this reason.
POLITICAL POWER NOT GIVEN BUT TAKEN
Political power is not given, but taken – seized. To seize, you need strength. Not mere physical strength but intellectual strength.
With police, army and more than that the most poisonous media being the monopoly of Brahmins, how can we capture power? Still our Dalit, OBC youth are all rushing to join political parties and rotting there. We have searched all the volumes of Babasaheb published by the Maharashtra Govt. In Vo.17, Part-III (p.388-389) is published a speech by Babasaheb addressing the 5th conference of the UP Scheduled Caste Federation in 1948 at Lucknow on April 25, 1948.
POLITICAL POWER AS MASTER-KEY
In that speech, he said:
“Political power is the key to all social progress and Scheduled Castes can achieve their salvation if they captured power by organizing themselves into a third party and holding a balance of power between the rival political parties-Congress and Socialists”.
This is the only reference that comes closest to the now famous claim of “political power as the master key”. The situation in 1948 was entirely different. Brahmins were not strong then. Dalits could have then joined with Muslims, who are a big force in UP. to come to power. They did not. They could not capture power because they were not organized. Brahmins have no political power.
There is not even a single Brahmin chief minister. No Brahmin can get elected with minor exceptions. Yet they control all the parties and the whole country? How could they control India without political power? I was a close friend of Kanshi Ram. We are of the same age. Except joining BSP, I was with him throughout.
It is the Chamar power that helped Mayawati to come to power.
There is no Chamar power in any other state. This is a big subject which we want to throw out for Debate in Dalit Voice. Brahmins will not hand over power to you on a golden plate. If Dalits organize themselves into a force every effort will be made to break them. If the Brahmins fail, they will bring the Army to finish us.
What is needed is intellectual strength. This is first priority. Do you have it?
It is the intellectuals and intellectuals alone who can lead a society.
INDIA IN GRIP OF CIVIL WAR
But they can also be mislead if they are not honest intellectuals. Babasaheb was an honest intellectual but Brahmins are dishonest and corrupt to the core. How can we trust them? So we have to produce lots and lots of honest intellectuals and then organize, which Waman Meshram is doing through BAMCEF
I found one such person in Kanshi Ram and now another in Waman Meshram. But to further our cause we need a powerful media of our own. Brother Meshram is convinced about it. We have assured our full support in this direction.
Before concluding, I have to warn you that the country is in the grip of a civil war. Everything is breaking down. Confusion is total. The govt. is not able to govern. Nothing is working. This is the right time for us to strike. Violence is spreading all round. India is being pushed from the third world to the fourth world. If the educated Dalits and Muslims fail to exploit this golden opportunity, Brahmins will clamp down another emergency and further tighten their grip on our neck.
That is all I have to say.
I have spoken too long. But I am sure I have made you think. Making you think is itself a big achievement.
Thank you,
Jai Bhim!
