“Caste identity” rocks Rajasthan: Gujjar - Meena war kills BJP’s “Hindu unity”

DV’s “caste identity” has exploded in Rajasthan and caused over 24 deaths till the time of writing this. The message is simple but stunning. If any oppressed caste, tribe or community in India wants to come up the social (and economic) ladder it can do so only through one route — the “caste identity” — by strengthening its roots.

This is what the long neglected, poverty-stricken Gujjar tribals did in Rajasthan. They must not stop.

Jats, Meenas, Rajputs of Rajasthan went up the same ladder only by strengthening their “caste identity”. Jats dominate the OBC quota and the Meenas occupy Govt. services in ST quota. Since “caste” in India is also “class”, the caste-ridden country’s road to social justice (socialism) is bound to lie through caste war. We had said it many times and Rajasthan has proved it.

The Meenas under ST have started violently opposing the Gujjars, leading to a caste war. Gujjars form 7.5% of Rajasthan’s over 5.6 crore population. The Meenas are much larger forming about 14% and well represented in services. The caste war has spread to other states.

But the Gujjars are left out because they did not strengthen their “caste identity”.

The only solution is reservation in proportion to the population of each caste.

Death of “Hindu unity”: The greatest gain of the Rajasthan “caste war” between the Gujjars and Meenas — both “Hindus” according to the Brahminical yardstick — is the death of “Hindu unity’. This is the second happiest news after the Hindu terrorist party, BJP, died in the neighbouring UP —the heart of the cow belt — following a Chamar caste war.

What we did not like, however, is Meenas’ violently opposing the Gujjar demand for inclusion in the ST quota. May be they are instigated by the Congress to keep Rajasthan boiling so that the BJP Govt. will collapse in the course of the caste war. But when the dust settles down and sanity is restored the equally oppressed Meenas would do well to accommodate the just demand of the Gujjars without reducing the Meena ST quota.

In AP, the Malas opposed Madiga demand for proportional representation. The Meenas should not follow the Mala example.

We thank both the Gujjars and Meenas for disturbing the stinking “Hindu pond” of Rajasthan by taking to the “caste identity” route.This is the right royal way to kill Brahminism.