It is time for Gaddar to quit Maoist Party & lead Dalits

I was present at your historic 70th birthday celebrations here on July 17, 2002 when our Dalit leader Gaddar was the chief guest. In your speech you questioned Gaddar and asked him how long he would go on silently suffering in the Peoples War Group prison-house under the custody of Brahminical people.

You were cheered when you asked him to come out and lead the Andhra Pradesh Dalit movement. For this Gadder replied that he would have gladly accepted your suggestion if the Dalits had remain united. He said the Dalits in AP were not only divided but were going away from Ambedkarism.

After some time you wrote your famous Editorial of Aug.16, 2004: “Converting PWG into a political party is fine but under Dalits:-

Famous DV editorial

Gaddar’s suffering: We have criticised the PWG leadership many times. PWG is tightly controlled by the “Socialist Brahmins”, Reddys and Khammas. Kondapalli Sitaramaiah, the Reddy chief of the PWG, died some years back. But Dalit leaders like K.G. Satyamurthy and the legendary Gaddar who built up the organisation are kept away.

Brother Gaddar, a powerful singer, writer, dancer and a mass leader, was even shot. He was humiliated and expelled from PWG. Despite all this Gaddar continues to serve the PWG because he knows PWG is a purely Dalit organisation. Without him there is no PWG. The poor man is silently suffering inside the PWG.

He is a virtual prisoner in their hands. He is an Ambedkarite first and last. His heart is with his suffering jati people.

Mala-Madiga divide: He would have conveniently joined the Dalits but he knows the weaknesses of Dalits and the difficulties of organising them and uniting them and enforcing discipline. The upper castes offered him a platform and through their media made him famous. But they also kept him gagged. Hundreds of Dalits are also silently suffering inside the PWG. They only fell victim to police bullets but rarely an upper caste man suffered.

When the Malas and Madigas fought on the issue of reservation within the SC/ST reservation, Gaddar, despite being a Mala, stood by the Madigas and thus brought sanity into the AP Dalit movement. The upper caste PWG leadership knows it. That is why they are using him. How long our people should go on serving these upper castes?

The defeated TDP led by the hated Khamma leader, Chandrababu Naidu, is virtually dead. The Congress may be ruling but its leadership is also upper caste. The powerful Andhra Dalit Mahasabha suffered due to the Mala-Madiga divide and its respected leader, Bojja Tarakam, went over to head one of the four factions of the Republican Party (RPI) which itself has no following in AP. Bahujan Samaj Party is still weak in AP.

Vacuum in AP: Dalits particularly are leaderless. So also other sections like the BCs, tribals, Muslims etc. The Brahmins and other upper castes wanted to fish in this troubled waters. And this must have prompted them to convert PWG into a political party under their leadership to fill the vacuum.

Gaddar, Bojja Tarakam and all other Dalit leaders should realise at least now that they should not allow themselves to be used by these Kannabhirans, Varavara Raos, Balagopals. The land is fertile in AP. The people are hungering for an alternative. The opportunities are immense. It is time they assert and form their own regional Telugu party of the oppressed SC/ST/BCs, Muslims and Christians.

Maoists better than RSS-BJP: But the time is running out. Comrade Ayyankali has been repeatedly warning us about the dangers posed by the Maoist Party (the new name of the Peoples War Group) under the Brahminical leadership.

You had also predicted that the entire Brahminical counter-revolutionaries might jump into Manuwadi maoist party finding it more efficient and better equipped than their favourite BJP-RSS terrorist party.

We are all great admirers of Brother Gaddar who today is the tallest leader of the AP Dalits. He alone is accepted by both the Malas and Madigas despite being a Mala himself. We also understand his dilemma. But he must know that the Manuwadi maoists are exploiting his name and fame to impose their Brahminical rule over the Dalits.

Gaddar’s silence: How long Gaddar will go on helping these Brahminical Manuwadi maoists to mislead the Dalits? How many more Dalits should get killed by police bullets and barbaric torture after getting recruited by these Brahminical scums using Gaddar’s name? How long Gaddar should tolerate this? If Dalit Voice doesn’t interfere nobody will. I learn Gaddar did not utter a single word in praise of the revolutionaries who burnt down the Deccan Queen train during his recent visit to Bombay. Even Dalit women had come out on the streets that too without any leadership.

Why Gaddar did not utter a word in praise of these genuine proletarian revolutionary heroes and heroines? That too when he is a Dalit? I feel so bad.

At least K.G. Satyamurthy criticised manuwadi maoists after he quit the party. Gaddar could at least give some excuse of health grounds and resigned from the party like KGS. No doctor will actually harm his patients even if he cannot help them. Can we sincerely say that Gaddar is an honest doctor?

DV June 16, 2005 p.6: “Manuwadis in naxalite garb: Vaidik Varavara Rao’s treachery against Dalit hero Gaddar”.

DV Edit Aug.16, 2004: “Converting PWG into political party is fine but under Dalits, keeping Brahminical leaders out”.

DV June 16, 1997 p.11: “How to rescue Gaddar drugged by marxism?”

DV May 1, 1997 p.11: “Whose hand behind shooting Gaddar?”

DV May 16, 1996 p.20: “Gaddar good-bye to marxism: PWG faces Dalit revolt”.

DV Nov.16, 1995 p.5: “PWG expels Dalit singer”.

DV Edit Nov.1, 1991: “Three-month notice to nazi naxals: Hands of SC/ST/BCs, Hindu human rightswalas are warned”.

Dalits must quit Manuwadi maoist parties & set up their own units

Even if a vaidik Brahmin touches gold it is certain to turn into stinking shit — whether it is maoisim, feminism or anything else. Similarly, Nepal’s Brahminical Manuwadi maoists are determined to turn maoism into the opium of the working class and destroy it, even before they capture power. The latest manuwadi maoist stunt is to persecute Nepal’s homosexual (gay) and lesbian community already being persecuted by its King Gyanendra. Nepal’s maoists are of course calling it a “society clean up drive” revealing their real crude manuwadi fangs. The real reason of course is that these maoist shitworms are terrified of anti-patriarchal and anti-endogamous elements like homosexuals and lesbians who will never fit into the slot of the Hindu divided family system and endogmany — the very pillars of the Brahminism which they never intended to destroy. Lesbians were cruelly punished by the Vaishnavas by chopping off their fingers.

MIM condemns Prachanda: The Moist Internationalist Movement (MIM) has explicitly condemned such crude, primitive agri-rural, patriarchial and barbaric homophotic ideas of the CIA-controlled crypto-Trotsky fake maoist front called the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) which was also incidentally upheld by Hitler’s SS troops in nazi-occupied areas. Incidentally, the very RIM actively supports Brahmin Manuwadi fake maoist Prachanda who sports a sacred tilak and also regularly visits Hindu temples.

Instead of hastening and encouraging the abolition of the bourgeoise Brahminical Hindu undivided family system, fighting BSO patriarchy and trying to abolish endogamy, Nepal’s fake maoists are out to purify and preserve these institutions. With such fake maoist moral policing, Nepal’s Dalits and janjatis hardly need Hindutva heroes and monarchies to oppress them. Our local Brahminical Reddy-controlled fake maoist party also supports such Hitlerite and crude, barbaric and agri-rural ideas. No wonder India’s Brahminical maoist literary mafia front, called Virasam run by a Brahmin, Vara Vara Rao, never encourages homosexual or lesbian writers or supports their rights.

Women cadres complaint: No wonder that the number of incidents of rapes and sexual exploitation of women guerrilla cadres is only going up even though 60% of the maoist guerrilla army are women — even when such VHP-style Durga Vahinis are led by women. Ramakrishna, the great Brahmin maoist, had no answers when feminists asked him why there was no akkas or women in the central committee or politburo of maoist party. Conveniently using the akkas as cannon-fodder as well as sexual playthings are one thing and ensuring that there are women in the politburo is something else. The real hidden agenda of these Manuwadi fake maoists is to preserve the Hindu undivided family. How can they be expected to destroy endogamy and usher in a casteless and classless world?

Burden of virginity: Periyar E.V. R had said that virginity and chastity is a burden for women. These manuwadi fake maoists of both India and Nepal are crude, barbaric, agri-rural male-chauvinist patriarchial chauvinists who wish to preserve and perpetuate the Hindu undivided family and endogamy which protects the caste system on which Brahminical Social Order is built. Both these Brahminical fake maoist parties have refused to support Iran against US imperialist attack.

All Dalit Bahujans and Adivasis should desert these maoists leadership and set up their own genuine revolutionary maoist party with a Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi leadership. Such a party alone will have any stake in destroying the BSO. Until a Dalit-Bahujan Adivasi led revolutionary maoist party is set up things will remain the same. Under Brahmin control the more things change, the more they will remain the same.

DV Dec.16, 2006 p.9: “Naxalism will zoom if Brahmin Prachanda becomes president of Nepal”, p. 10: “Upper caste rulers want naxal problem to continue”.

DV Oct.16, 2006 p.5: “Naxalism gets complicated with RSS & big business infiltration” & “Terrorism creates big business for upper caste rulers” & p. 7: “Maoist International tributes to DV”.

DV Aug.16, 2006 p.16: “Caste war within naxal leadership” & “Naxalism enslaves Dalits better than Hindu nazism”.

DV Edit May 16, 2006: “Red star over India: Danger of manuwadi marxists further enslaving starving Dalits”.

DV June 16, 2005 p.6: “Manuwadis in naxalite garb: Vaidik Varavara Rao’s treachery against Dalit hero Gaddar” & “DV proves right on Naxalite natak companies”.

DV Edit Aug.16, 2004: “Converting PWG into political party is fine but under Dalits, keeping Brahminical leaders out”.

DV May 1, 2000 p.7: “If PWG is menace why upper caste rulers are soft on it?”

Ungrateful M.K. Gandhi condemns revolutionaries who died for India

It is said M.K. Gandhi like many others worked for the freedom of the counry, but he had a great passion to achieve this end through non-violence. He always taught that non-violence must supersede all other values of life including nationalism and patriotism. In his system of nonviolence, formulated in his book, The Hind Swaraj, there is no need for physical protection of the individual as well as the state because “bravery consists in dying and not killing”.1. Laying down the criterion of national greatness, Gandhi said “that nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow” 2.

Upto this time, states have been maintaining vast defence organisations for physical protection of the people against internal and external threats. Gandhi demanded the abolition of the warrior class itself. Love for the enemy could change his heart. He advised the allied powers to face Hitler without arms. He condemned the heroes who fought against aggressors and tyrants. He taught women (and also men) that they should be the ideal examples of suffering like Sita and Draupadi and warned against the example of the sword-wielding Rani of Jhansi.3.

Gandhi denounced the revolutionaries and freedom fighters of the slave countries who fought against foreign rulers and tyrants, for examples Washington, Garibaldi, Lenin, Kamal Pasha, De Valera and so on. In the same breath, he condemned Guru Gobind Singh, Shivaji and Maharana Pratap. In his own words, “had I lived as their contemporary... I would have called everyone of them as misguided patriot. They cannot be my guides in life.” 4

Gandhi hurled a very derogatory abuse against Maharana Pratap when he said: “even the biographies of kings like Pratap do not inspire me. They were only giant bandits”.5

Gandhi was also severe in his criticism of contemporary Indian martyrs of the revolutionary school who fought the British rule in India. Long before Gandhi came on the political scene in India, the revolutionary school had aroused Bengal and Maharashtra by their “bombs and bullets”. Gandhi knew about it. In his Hindi Swaraj, he condemned Madan Lal Dhingra and all those who praised his sacrifice.7 He accused B.G. Tilak (who gave the slogan that freedom is my birthright) as a man who did not understand the meaning of freedom. Rejecting Tilak’s approach, Gandhi said that it showed “the want of proper understanding of what swaraj really means. He (Tilak) has not imbibed the true spirit of Mother India.”8

Gandhi was also very remorseful for the conduct of his followers who with his name on their lips committed deeds of violence during his call for strike in 1919. He refused to secure their release as it was against his religion. He said: “I have no desire that.. should be saved from the gallows if they have incited violence.”9

In 1924 Gopinath Saha faced his death sentence bravely. But the Congress condemned him “as all such acts were inconsistent with the non-violent policy of the Congress.. that such acts retard the progress towards swaraj”. Gandhi got this condolence resolution passed but there was a bitter exchange. Gandhi was disappointed to see that some of his close devotees voted against this condemnation resolution and he wept over it.10

Jaindas died on Sept.13, 1929, the 64th day of his hunger-strike in jail. He was hailed as a great martyr and the entire country was moved by his sacrifice. But Gandhi kept quiet as he said he would have written something favourable against this martyr11. About the heroes of Chittagong Armoury Raid, he repeated the charge that they were misguided in my eyes.12

BHAGAT SINGH CONDEMNED

The entire country was shaken by the execution of Bhagat Singh Rajguru and Sukhdeo on March 23, 1931. Gandhi forced the Congress to condemn these martyrs even in its condolence resolution. Further, he insulted the intelligence of these non-gandhian martyrs for whom he said that they had “not the same wisdom that I would claim for myself”13. The mass-wave generated for these martyrs did not exist for the Mahatma.

Gandhi did his best and also worst to get Subhas defeated when he felt that he could not tame Subhas. He could not reconcile to his victory for the second term and used all fair and foul means to get rid of him.

Later when Subhas marched towards India with his INA, the whole of India stood electrified by the tales of his heroic venture. Pattabhi admits that “there was not a soul in India (except that of the Mahatma) that was not stirred by and elated with their soul-stirring tales...”14.

Gandhi was a silent spectator of the warm applause showered on Subhas from all sides. Within himself, he was perhaps cursing the hero who had by this time been admitted as a more deserving candidate for the award of the title of the “Father of the Nation” than the ungrateful Mahatma. Later, Gandhi could not refrain from pouring out his venom against Subhas in his statement to L. Fisher that “I do not encourage the Bose legend” 15.

Gandhi argued that the revolutionaries were harming the country. They fought for “a bad cause”.. “being ignorant and misguided, do and have done more harm to the country than any other activity.. the revolutionaries have retarded the progress of the country 16. I must refuse to fall into hysterics over their sacrifices, however great they may be.. Those who give praise to the revolutionaries for their sacrifices do harm to them and the cause they have at heart 17. Gandhi had no polite word for any of them and condemned them all in “unmeasured terms” 18.

Gandhi used his influence to throw cold water on the spirit generated in the country by the revolutionaries. He declared that I must “endeavour to neutralise in all the ways accessible to me the poison of the revolutionary activity” 19. He repeated this claim several times. He assured the viceroy that it was his purpose to set in motion a force against the growing party of violence in India 20.

The British statesmen admitted that Gandhi was the best policeman that the British had in India who could prevent or suppress open revolutionary uprising in the country 21.

EXPERIMENTS WITH UNTRUTH

Gandhi prophesied that “free India can have no enemy. No country would bother to invade India after the departure of the British. To the question what shall India do with her army after the withdrawal of the British, Gandhi laid down that army should be used for cleaning latrines.22

However, in October, 1947 when the GOI air-lifted troops to Kashmir, this step was not meant to clean the latrines of Kashmir or to demonstrate the efficacy of his satyagraha methodology or to teach the doctrine of turning the other cheek to his disciples in GOI, but to use physical force against the invaders.

The apostle of truth was not honest enough to acknowledge the truth that he was performing the funeral of his special brand of non-violence when he defended that step.

He also talked about the possibility of war between India and Pakistan with the addition of his usual “ifs” (Sept.16, 1947). The period of his “experiments with truth” was already over. T.K. Mahadevan, a one-time ardent devotee of Gandhi, dubbed his ways as “experiments in untruth”23.

Gandhi learnt without acknowledgment a different brand of non-violence which believed in the use of force, muscular or mechanical, taught by Krishna in the Gita, advocating “destruction of the wicked” (IV.7) and also practised by the revolutionaries.

He indulged in falsification of history when he claimed that “India has fought for its freedom since 1920 deliberately by truth and non-violence as its only weapons24.

By denying the contribution of the revolutionaries to the political awakening in India which led to eventual British withdrawal from India, Gandhi insulted the memory of the thousands of martyrs in India.

References:

1. See Critique of Gandhi, p.18, 138 2. Ibid p.135

3. Ibid p.22 4. Collected Works, Vol XXVI, pp 491, Y.I. 9-4-25.

5. Desai: Day to Day With Gandhi, Vol.1 p.145 7. Hind Swaraj, p.50

8. Desai, Id. Vol.1, pp.65, 218. 9. Jan.9, 1920, To Hunter Commission

10. Pattabhi; History of Congress, Vol.1, p.312 11. Subhas: Indian Struggle, p. 163

12. Communal Unity, p.447 13. Pattabhi; History, I, 447

14. Ibid, Vol.I, p.457 15. Life of Gandhi, p. 474

16. Collected Works, Vol. XXVI, p.487 17. Ibid p.487

18. Pattabhi: Vol.1, p.513. 19. CW, XXVI p. 286

20. Pattabhi, p.375 21. Ibid, C.611, 1.611

22. Non-violence in Peace & War-II, p.79 23. His Article in Mirror, Oct.1981

24. Pattabhi, Vol.1 p.684

Gandhi a racist ?

Congressman Edolphus Towns of New York in the House of Representatives on Jan.9 referred to the book, Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity. The author, Col. G.B. Singh, who lives in USA portrays M.K. Gandhi as a person who was more interested in advancing his own group than in the advancement of all people. Using Gandhi’s own words, he portrays a very different Gandhi than you and I have been told about. He argues that the Gandhi, we have been told about isn’t the real Gandhi. Since Gandhi is called the “Father of Indian nation”, understanding his character is essential to understand India, Towns said in a congressional speech in Washington.

The book says Gandhi was fundamentally a racist. Only through a methodical probing can we expose Gandhi’s campaign of deception: the lies, the propaganda, the misinformation, the half-truths, and the effort to hide behind religion. Where Gandhi left off, his followers picked up, and they continue their own sophisticated campaigns, both in India and abroad. (assekhon@shaw.ca)

CNN on Gandhi sex life

“Dirty Gandhi” is an insulting word to describe the Hindus in Holland. We never call the Hindus as Hindus. We always call them “Dirty Gandhis”. Now a new remark is invented to descibe the Hindus, which is, pappadum. All Hindus are now called, Pappadum and “Fascist India” is called, pappadum India.

American actor, Dustin Hoffman hates Dirty Gandhi and thinks of him as “Pedophile Gandhi”:

On 24-11-06, Friday, at 01:45 am early morning, German time, Dustin Hoffman appeared on the “Daily Show” programme of CNN, which is hosted by Jon Stewart and said, “Gandhi used to sleep totally naked with two very young and underaged girls”.

Jon Stewart asked him, “Is it true?” Dustin Hoffman replied, “Yes, it is true”.Dustin Hoffman and Jon Stewart, both then made fun of Gandhi by expressing their viewpoint that Gandhi used to wear a bed sheet around is waist. The entire audience laughed at this insult directed against “Dirty Gandhi”. You can seek further information by contacting the CNN directly.

We are now spreading this propaganda all over the world. We have also translated the above script in German and have sent it to all prominent German newspapers in Germany. We will soon be sending it to Austria and Switzerland also, which are two more German-speaking countries. Austria is a 100% German-speaking country and Switzerland is a tri-lingual country, where German and French are the prominent languages and are spoken and understood by the majority of Swiss.Italian is also spoken in Switzerland, but only 20%.

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D.V. REFERENCE TO CRITIQUE OF GANDHI

DV Nov.1, 2006 p.25: “Gandhi, villain of India’s partition”.

DV July 16, 2006 p.7: “Gandhi killed Dalit rights: Dr. Ambedkar”.

DV July 1, 2006 p.12: “Anti-Dalit remarks of Gandhi”.

DV Feb.1, 2006 p.12: “Gandhi, a fascist?”

DV Oct.16, 2005 p.23: “Gandhi as racist: S. African writer exposes hidden face of mahatma”.

DV Sept.16, 2005 p.25: “Gandhi branded racist in S. Africa”.

DV July 16, 2005 p.26: “Gandhi & sex: A dangerous mix”.

DV Nov.16, 2004 p. 10: “Gandhi & Gandhism — a cruel hoax on oppressed Indians”.

DV Aug.1, 2004 p. 19: “Gandhi unmasked: New film”.

DV May 1, 2003 p.19: “Gandhi sleeping with young girls showed him as sex pervert”.

DV April 1, 2003 p.17: “Gandhi sold Brahminism as sweet pill to fool Untouchables”.

DV Dec.16, 2002 p.22: “How Gandhi helped British”.

DV Feb.1, 2000 p.6: “Truth about Rajghat”.

DV March 16, 1990 p.14: “Gandhism is fascism”.

DV March 1, 1990 p.14: “Devastating portrait of Gandhi”.

DV Jan.16, 19990 p.21: “Did Gandhi oppose British imperialism & Apartheid? — A South African survey”.

DV June 1, 1989 p.16: “The verdict of history on Gandhi”.

DV Edit May 1989: “Did Gandhi fight the British?”

DV Nov.16, 1983 p.5: “Gandhi as agent of India’s ruling class”.

DV Edit March 1, 1983: “Gandhi vs. Ambedkar”.

DV Feb.1, 1982 p. 12: “How Gandhi harmed OBCs?”

V.T. Rajshekar, Why Godse Killed Gandhi? DSA-1997,

Dr. Velu Annamalai, Sergeant-Major M.K.Gandhi, DSA-1995.

Fazlul Haq, Gandhi: Saint or Sinner?, DSA-1991

Brahmins killed Gandhi: Tushar

New Delhi: The Brahmins were behind several bids on Mahatma Gandhi’s life as they wanted to make India a Hindu nation, the great grandson of Gandhi said on Jan.30. “I want to condemn the theory of Sangh Parivar that Gandhi was killed because he was responsible for the vivisection of the motherland and because he forced the Indian Govt. to give Pakistan Rs. 55 crore”, Tushar A. Gandhi said at an event where his book, Let’s Kill Gandhi, was launched here. “These are all excuses which are not true. And the Brahmin community, which wanted to make India a Hindu nation, was behind all the attempts and the murder of the Father of the Nation”, he said. Gandhi’s killing was not an assassination. It was a premeditated murder.

(Deccan Herald, Jan.31, 2007).

For further particulars read our book, Why Godse Killed Gandhi? (DSA-1997). Available only in photocopy. Rs. 130.

Bravery of Kerala Muslims

This is a wonderful book on history of Western India of the 16th century written by a keen, contemporary scholar. It speaks of the great naval might of the West coast Indians who kept the Portuguese naval power under constant defeats for a century. This shatters the myth that India did not have might on the maritime side. Since the history of India is written around those who ruled Delhi, writing and researching on the world and greatness of South Indians is completely ignored. This book reveals in detail how Keralites, Bijapuris and Gujratis fought bravely against the Portuguese shipping onslaughts. In no way the Indians were inferior to European shippers. Their subsequent subjugation by the West was not at seas but at the land battles fought at Plassy, Buxer etc. South Indian Hyder Ali defeated the mighty, treacherous British power in two wars called I and II Mysore Wars. Had the North Indian rulers recognised the might, valour and capacities of South Indian rulers and peoples, the course of history would have been different. This book mostly refers to naval war forces. The book ought to be titled differently in English stressing upon the social, cultural, caste factors, might and struggles of the Keralites in particular instead of its original Arabic title, which may discourage intending readers on the ground that it relates to some theological aspects of Islam which are touched only to the limited scope of encouraging Kerala Muslims to perform jihad against the Portuguese but for which atrocities committed by the Spaniards on the Americans during the same period would have been committed by the Portuguese in India. Annotations by SMH Nainar speak of his high scholarship in history. He should bestow attention on the above points and come out with more material on history of the west coast people.

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English book

tuhafat-al-mujahidin

(A historical epic of the 16th century)

Author: Shaik Zainuddin Makhdoom in Arabic

Translator: S. Mohamad Husayu Nainar

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Islamic Book Trust, Kaula Lampur and Calicut

Available at: PO Box-620, New Way Bldg., Railway Link Road, Kozhikode, Kerala - 637 002.

COMMUNICATION

Unthinking OBCs delaying Bahujan unity

In DV Dec.1, 2006 (p.7) you reported about Khairlanji massacre of Dalits by the members of Kunbi Backward Castes. In an earlier issue of DV Brother Gurnam Singh lamented over the lukewarm attitude of the Backward Castes towards anti-reservation agitation for OBCs in educational institutions.

Not only now, even at the time of agitation against Mandal Commission report, it was left to the Dalits to support it. I want to share my experiences of that agitation. I was posted at Kapurthala as Executive Magistrate. Kapurthala was tense and so was the city of Phagwara. I was detailed along with a SP rank police officer for Phagwara where a suburban area of Hadiabad was under curfew. During those days public meetings with agitating Dalits were held daily to defuse the situation.

Supreme Court order: After the meetings I could sit with Dalit leaders to convince them why do they alone were spearheading the agitation when BC leaders were not joining. They did agree with me but could not withdraw the agitation. I also discussed the issue with BC officers why they were not supporting it. One judicial officer was vociferous and said they did not want any reservation. The Dalits suffered a lot at that time. Criminal cases were filed and many kept in police custody for days. The same story is repeated now by the OBCs. As a result, the BCs and OBCs have gained but the Dalits have suffered a lot.

The BCs and OBCs may be silent now but when the “creamy layer” order of the Supreme Court is implemented they will then start feeling the pinch.

In all-India services, the OBCs get 27% reservation but Dalits get only 15% and STs 7%.

When the “creamy layer” criterion is imposed upon Dalits it will be a double loss. Our representation will remain the same but the OBCs will get more and without any effort. Our people suffered humiliation and economic loss. Still the OBCs continue their caste attacks on us. Khairlanji massacre is not the only one instance. There are many more. The Yadavs, Kurmis, Kunbis and many others in Karnataka, MP and even in the TN. It is the Backwards and OBCs who have been responsible for atrocities on the Dalits.

I am not against the unity of Backwards, OBCs and the Dalits but I want to draw the attention of the political leaders, social activists and intellectuals of the Dalits to ponder over it seriously. The history of social movement from the days of Phule indicates that he tried his level best to unite the shudras and the Ati-shudras. But to this day this has not happened. First the Republican Party and then Kanshi Ram tried his best and now Mayawati has changed her strategy in UP.

Punjab OBCs: In Punjab, the Backwards have never come to our support. As a member of the civil service, I have observed the Backward Caste behaviour. Even in Tamil Nadu, Periyar’s efforts to unite the Dalits and BCs could not succeed.

So what to do? We have over 1,000 castes (1,074). What Babasaheb wanted was to forge an alliance with the forces of socialism. But socialism is dead. BSP supported Modi in Gujarat elections. In Punjab, BSP has no understanding of theories of social change. They are running after the leaders of other political parties for electoral adjustments irrespective of their ideology.

The head of BSP in Punjab is a baptized Sikh and acts more as a Sikh leader than an Ambedkarite missionary.

I doubt if he has read the writings of Babasaheb. He is incapable of leading a political party based on ideology of social revolution. In UP, Mayawati can gain personally but not Dalits.

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Hinduisation of Jat Sikhs caused fall of Punjab

We agree with Brother Bal. BCs or OBCs do not come with us. Their fear is if they join us they too will become Untouchables. We have answered the question of serious contradictions between the two several times. Babasaheb has done it more effectively. He had compared the Dalits to a tortoise and asked the BCs to jump on its back if they wanted to cross the river. The tortoise might be slow but it would take them across safely and surely. But the BCs are not listening to Babasaheb because of their intellectual poverty. Being a highly hinduised lot, they listen to the Brahmins much more than the Dalits. And the Brahmins effectively play upon this contradiction between the two and keep us divided and fighting. Since the human nature is to go up the ladder of life and always to look up and not down, they also look up to the guidance from the Brahmin who injects the anti-Dalit poison into their veins.

So much so, all over India it is the BCs who attack Dalits at the instance of the Brahminical people.

DALITS SUPPORT MUSLIMS

The problem is the BCs have not produced an all-India intellectual leader of the stature of Babasaheb. All the BC leaders were state or regional-level leaders who spoke only of BCs but not of Dalits. Babasaheb spoke, worked and sacrificed not only for Dalits but also BCs and in fact every section of the Indian society including the Brahmin women. That is why he is called the “Father of India” — much above the discredited “Father of the nation”.

Just because the Backwards have proved awkwards that doesn’t mean we have to fight them. No. They are an unthinking people. As the children of Babasaheb it is our duty to fight for the liberation of all sections. Our Father has said this.

It is our duty to fight for BCs, Muslims, Christians and thereby create the Bahujan Samaj.

We do admit the situation is grim — gloomy. As we have no media of our own and the Brahmins hold the monopoly, they can frustrate all our efforts to form the Bahujan Samaj.

As the Editor of Dalit Voice and fully in touch with every part of the country, we are aware of the serious contradictions between the Dalits and BCs and between Dalits and Muslims.

JATS AS CULPRITS

Punjab is a peculiar state where the Brahminical forces are concentrating all their energies, having infiltrated every section of the society.

They have fully succeeded in destroying the Sikh ideology by corrupting and co-opting the Jat Sikhs. What a tragedy. Jat Sikh leaders themselves were commissioned to destroy Sant Bhindranwale’s revolution.

They have also infiltrated the different Dalit sections and instigated them against Jat Sikhs.

If today Punjab is suffering and destined to fall further the principal cause is the Jat Sikhs who are not Hindu but born enemies of Hindu.

Brahminical revivalism is in full swing in Punjab. So we are not surprised by the disarray within the BSP. They know that if the Dalits unite they can capture power in Punjab. Brahmins know the danger.

UNTHINKING BRAHMINS

The situation is very bad. But the Brahmins do not know that they alone cannot take this country to their dream-land, keeping the over 85% of the population in the torture chamber. Right now they are flying in the 8%-10%-12% GDP clouds.

But the thinking sections among Brahmins know the truth.

India is in a bad shape. Punjab can’t be different — EDITOR.

Punjab Dalits can rule if they use Kanshi Ram’s caste formula

Even in casteless religions like Sikhism, Budhism, Islam and Christianity, vestiges of Hindu castes and subcastes are visible.

If not overt discrimination, micro-discrimination is being practised by upper caste groups in all these religions which in reality deny all kinds of discrimination. But quite a few Hindu upper castes have infiltrated these egalitarian religions to perpetuate their exploitative mentality to subjugate all those social groups and castes who have got converted to these casteless, anti-exploitative religions which stand for social justice and equality. As a consequence of this phenomenon we find Dalit and Backward Caste groups in all these non-Hindu religions.

Huge population of Dalit Sikhs: The demography of Punjab reveals that the state has about 26% Dalit population which is quite a huge chunk.

These people have been divided into sects, subsects and cults that never allow them to come on the common platform to ward off the injustice perpetrated against them by their own upper caste fellow Sikhs.

The total population of Sikhs in Punjab is 60%. Of this, Dalit Sikhs form about 50%. If they can cobble the other neglected caste groups they can become a formidable force. They can dictate in parliamentary democracy instead of remaining followers of upper castes. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar has shown the path by saying, “minorities should not always remain minorities in parliamentary democracy” —meaning the minority social and cultural groups should always strive to forge majority in the political field.

Kanshi Ram legacy: Kanshi Ram, the Bahujan Samaj Party founder, belonged to Punjab. He will go down in history as the tallest post-Ambedkarite leader the state has given to the country. He was a superb political strategist who demonstrated to the country’s Bahujans they can rule if they follow his guidelines. He practically demonstrated by making BSP a major opposition party in the state Assembly. He was a master strategist in forging caste alliance. But the Punjabi Dalit Sikhs have forgotten the victorious political legacy of Kanshi Ram.

Political power is not the monopoly of upper castes which in fact is just a 15% minority. Despite being a numerically solid force, Dalits in Punjab have been mistakenly supporting the upper caste political parties and in turn helping them to commit injustice upon them. This could be altered and changed dramatically if Dalits assert themselves politically. Otherwise their mighty 26% voting strength will go waste.

How to make BSP a force: After Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar there had been a big void in Ambedkarite politics. By sacrificing his entire life, Kanshi Ram filled up this void by building a BSP network throughout the country. Due to Kanshi Ram and Mayawati, BSP could become a national party.

If a mere 18% Dalit population in UP could make Mayawati CM thrice what will happen if 26% Dalits in Punjab rally behind BSP? The recipe is ready. Punjabi Dalits can use this recipe and prepare a delicious cuisine.

Foreign missionaries persecuted in AP

Over 10,000 Christians from AP marched through Vizag on Jan.24 against “visa policing” of foreign Christians, graveyards in district headquarters and major towns for Christians and demanding 10 acres land to hold spiritual meetings for Christians. Christians are facing persecution from Hindu terrorists in every walk of the life. The state police and intelligence agencies, often accompanied by Hindu thugs, have been breaking into Christian meetings where international guests are present. Several such meetings have been abruptly broken up by the police. Dr. Sam Paul, national secretary of All-India Christian Council, said that in last three months four Christian meetings at Rajahmndry on Nov.16-20, 2006, Vizag (Nov.15-25), Kakinada (Dec.1-2, 2006) and Antarvedipalen, East Godavari dt. (Jan.10-14, 2007) were obstructed by the police forces with RSS-BJP thugs. International visitors are not here on missionary visas which India does not give though thousands of Hindu priests routinely go abroad to preach in the West. Our guests do not convert but participate in Christian meetings.

LETTERS TO EDITOR

Parvez Khan, Bahnhofvorplatz-2a, 50667 KÖln, Germany: Poppadom is a new insulting word against the Hindus, which, originated from the crisis of Shilpa Shetty during her altercation with Jade Goody in London recently. British newspapers, particularly the Daily Mail, which is very very anti- foreigner, gave this word of poppadom a full coverage. Because of this media campaign the indignant word of poppadom is now permanently labelled upon the Hindus all over the world. It has given rise to a new anti-Hindu joke also, which is: What is the difference between a Shilpa poppadom and a Gandhi poppadom? A freshly made, hot and tasty poppadom is called Shilpa poppadom. The poppadom which is several hours old, tasteless and cold is called Gandhi poppadom. We have spread this remark and Hindu joke in Holland with 5,000 poppadoms (Hindus) in Amsterdam and around 3,000 poppadoms in Rotterdam, which is the second biggest city of Holland. There are around 800 poppadoms in the small city of Delft also, of which 60/70 are students in the Technical university of Delft. In Pakistan, Sialkot City has gained international prominence for the manufacture of sports goods and surgical instruments. The European firms buy these surgical instruments at a rock bottom price, label them as “Made in Germany”, “Made in England” etc. and sell them at a high price. I have seen these surgical instruments with the label of “Made in Germany” sold for 400 to 1,000 euros each. In Pakistan they buy it for 20 euros.

Planning Commission document

Plenty of funds allotted to Dalits but where did it go?

REPORT ON THE SUB GROUP ON SCHEDULED CASTES SUB-PLAN (SCSP) XI FIVE YEAR PLAN

Headed by R. Christudas Gandhi
a powerful Dalit IAS officer from Tamil Nadu

Address: CMD, TN Urban Finance & Infrastructure Devp. Corp., 490/1-2 Anna Salai,
Nandanam, Madras - 600 035

Conceptually the Scheduled Castes sub-plan, earlier called special component plan, constitutes a landmark
on social budgeting anywhere in the world.

The 11th plan size will be about Rs. 10 lakh crores of which the share of Dalits (SCSP) will be about 1.6 lakh crores.

Read the booklet to understand how the Dalits, the country’s most important segment comprising
about 20% of the population, is continuously being cheating in the planning process

2007 pp.38 price not marked

photocopy available with DV. Rs. 25.

Happy news for Muslims : India going Islamic

An OBC leader predicts death of Hinduism at
the hands of Islam

INDIA ON THE PATH OF ISLAMISATION

Dr. S. Bheemappa

A Bangalore-based surgeon & Karnataka
Backward Caste leader

Criticises Hinduism “for ruining the Hindus”. Says “Dalits and BCs are cursing themselves for having been born Hindu. But a Muslim, though much poorer, will never curse his religion of Islam. If Hinduism is dying it is because of its
caste system sanctioned by its Scriptures”.

With 21 chapters full of statistics and historical analysis, it is a must reading for Dalits and Muslims.

“If Islam can destroy Brahminism (Hinduism) which we have been fighting since centuries, why not welcome it”, said a noted Dalit leader.

2006 pp.130 (A/4 size) Rs. 195

Rs. 100 for DV family members

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