CREAMY LAYER VERDICT

Bahujans disappointed with Chief Justice Balakrishnan

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: The chief justice of a high court or the Supreme Court is only the first among the equals. He has no extra or over-ruling powers.

We had said all this while we welcomed Justice Balakrishnan’s elevation as the first Dalit Chief Justice of India — at the instance of the then Dalit President, K.R. Narayanan, who is since dead.

Subverting democracy: We know the limitations of the Chief Justice, that too a Dalit CJ presiding over the entire Supreme Court loaded with upper caste judges consciously selected as part of the Brahminical conspiracy in the name of “merit”. (Merit, My Foot, DSA-2006). If the upper castes, a mere 15%, are ruling India it is solely because of the media they own and the judiciary they dominate. The two, the higher judiciary in particular is not only cutting into the powers of the legislature but subverting democracy itself. In the latest “creamy layer” verdict of April 10, 2008 (DV May 1, 2008 p.7), the role played by Supreme Court Chief Justice Balakrishnan has shocked even his greatest well-wishers among the country’s oppressed nationalities who constitute over 85% of our population.

Balakrishnan comes from a very poor Dalit family of Kerala. When a fellow Malayali Dalit, President Narayanan, suggested his elevation, the upper caste judges fumed and even frowned on the President himself and applauded by the entire Brahminical media.

In the past 61 years of ”independence”, the ruling upper castes have deliberately and consistently stiffled the country’s oppressed lot and made them virtually voiceless. Barring Dalit Voice there is no reliable media for the underdog.

Judicial terrorism: It was during this confrontation between the President and the Supreme Court, DV stood by the President and supported Balakrishnan. Hence we have the right to ask him how he disappointed us on the crucial “creamy layer” issue. When the entire lot of upper caste judges are lined up behind their micro-minority jatwala property-holders, why the CJ coming from the bottom also joined the exploiters. In his judgment if only he had just written a line of dissatisfaction with the “majority” thinking and given his frank opinion on the existing situation that itself would have been a sufficient shock to the uncontrollable judicial terrorism. Having come up the hardway, is he also trying to fall in line with the “popular opinion”? And please the ruling class?

Senior lawyers, Dalit leaders and even retired high court judges gathered at a meeting in Bangalore recently to discuss the “creamy layer” judgment expressed shock over the behaviour of Balakrishnan. At least to satisfy his own conscience he should have remembered his mentor, K.R. Narayanan, and why the President then took so much of pain to bring him to the Supreme Court. The Dalit CJ has disappointed us.

OBC MPs reject creamy layer theory

New Delhi: The Parliamentary Forum of Other Backward Class MPs on April 22 unanimously rejected the concept of creamy layer as ruled by the Supreme Court. This rejection of the creamy layer concept that the govt. has accepted in the wake of the court order was taken at a meeting of the Forum here.

Attended by four members of the Union Council of Ministers — Anbumani Ramadoss, R. Velu, Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan and V. Narayanasamy — the meting drew participation from most political parties. (Hindu, April 23, 2008).

“Maoist menace” is creation of ruling upper castes

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Naxalites, according to govt. reports, now have control over 1/3 of India forcing the Prime Minister to declare them as the country’s No.1 problem — more serious than the “Muslim terrorism”.

Who created such a serious problem? A govt. report puts the blame right on the head of the govt. itself. But there is nothing like a govt. in India as it is controlled by the 15% upper castes. The govt. is in the pocket of the ruling class. In other words, the culprit is named.

Planning Com. report: Brahminical rulers not only engineered the rise of naxals (now renamed maoists) but forced the govt. which they control, not to take action against them. However, the same rulers are for all-out merciless action on “Muslim terrorists”. And that is how thousands and thousands of Muslim youths arrested are rotting in jails without put on trial.

Why this merciless treatment for “terrorists” and soft corner for naxalites? The short answer is naxals are “our own boys”.

A Planning Commission team headed by a Brahmin IAS officer, D. Bandhopadhyaya, and others including a Brahmin naxal leader from Hyderabad has squarely put the blame on the state for the spread of naxalism:

New Delhi: Admitting that the rise of naxalism was a “political movement with a strong base among poor peasantry and adivasis”, a high-powered government committee has ascribed its growth to people’s discontent and complete failure of the system and asked for immediate winding up of Salwa Judum. (Times of India, April 28, 2008).

Hindu mind: If the naxals are India’s No.1 problem and this problem is created by the state itself controlled by the 15% upper caste rulers, why the rulers are creating this problem? Why they are putting a knife into their own stomach? Such questions will get the quick answer if only we know the “Hindu mind”.

The upper castes not only created this problem but the entire leadership of the naxal army is also upper caste. That is why the rulers are so soft on the naxals.

The Planning Commission team cited the following problems for the rise of naxals:

Landlessness, insecure life, poverty, illiteracy, reckless land acquisition, lack of rehabilitation, large-scale indebtedness.

All these are not the problem of the rulers. It is mainly the problem afflicting the Dalits and Tribals who are the main recruits to the armed naxal force headed by the upper castes.

The naxal force, the army of the oppressed Dalits, fight the state police force which again is recruited from the same stock. When brothers fight brothers and kill each other, the upper caste naxal leadership see and enjoy. And their jatwala journalists write on the horrors of naxals.

Dalit Voice has carried innumerable reports on such ingenious upper caste tricks that have put the govt. — if there is a govt. in India — in a serious dilemma.

The rulers created India’s No.1 problem — naxalism — but forced the govt., which they control, not to fight it. The reason is naxalism is their own creation. This is also the reason for their admiration to the Nepali Brahmin maoist Prachanda.

DV’s repeated warning: The rulers have come to the final conclusion that they will not be able to control the rebellious SC/ST/BCs with their Hindu weapon of RSS. It is easier via naxalism. That is why the chaddi chhores are getting ready to join naxals and welcome Prachanda.

DV has said all this a number of times. And the latest Planning Commission report and the pressure on the Govt. of India to be soft on Prachanda will confirm what we have said.

DV March 16, 2008 p. 27: “Rulers love maoists but hate terrorists”.

DV Jan.16, 2008 p.23: “Brahmin Prachanda betrays Nepal revolution”.

DV June 16, 2007 p.21: “Total Brahmin control of Maoist Party”.

DV proves right on Prachanda

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: The Khatri Sikh PM, who declared maoists as the No.1 threat facing India— much more serious than the Muslim terrorists— is today facing a serious dilemma. His jatwalas, who were never happy with his sweeping indictment of the manuwadi maoists, have succeeded in changing his stand. The rulers love Prachanda and want to offer him a red carpet welcome.The secret of the Brahminical admiration for the Himalayan hero is, he is their jatwala. Not only that. His whole top leadership is Brahminical.The SC/ST/BCs of Nepal joined the Maoist Party in hundreds and died. But the leaders did not sacrifice. Once again the Bahujans of Nepal are fooled.

INDIA SHINING

Grim picture on women & child

New Delhi: India is failing its women and children and is crawling towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which targets to cut child death rates by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters between 1990-215. According to a report that tracks the progress made by 68 priority countries, which account for 97% of maternal and child deaths worldwide, only 16 (24%) were on track to meet the MDG compared to 7 of 60 (12%) in 2005. India, however, is not one of them. In fact, India’s progress towards MDG target in child mortality, in the report “the Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival” published in the medical journal Lancet has been found to be “insufficient” and its level of maternal mortality has been termed “high”. While India’s target under MDG for mortality of children under age 5 is 38 per 1,000 live births, the number of children who die before their fifth birthday stands at 76 at present. Infant mortality rate in India stands 57 per 1,000 live births while neonatal mortality rate — deaths in the first month of life — stands at 43 per 1,000 live births.

—(Times of India, April 18, 2008)

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Crisis on farm front

More than 125 farmers have committed suicide in Vidarbha since the announcement of the Rs. 60,000 crore farm loan waiver. Clearly, the demonstration and despair that have gripped the benighted region are of extraordinary proportions. That the waiver itself would have a marginal impact on Vidarbha was predictable and indeed predicted by this newspaper. It was clear that the waiver’s failure to touch money-lender debt and its cut-off limit of two hectares would let down these dryland farmers terribly. Now even official figures suggest that the better-off farmers of western Maharashtra will benefit almost twice as much as the distressed ones of Vidarbha will from the waiver. The gap between the State’s regions, already the cause of great discontent, is growing. It is painfully clear the neither the Prime Minister’s relief package nor the Chief Minister’s has made any dent on the crisis. Indeed, Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister concluded a Vidarbha tour two months ago expressing anguish over the poor progress of the packages. The waiver too has had little impact. All that remains is the promise of “looking into” the cut-off limit. People are losing the little hope they had. Nothing has happened in the past few years that addresses sharply declining farm incomes in the region. Even the brief rise in cotton prices a few months ago is of a fragile nature.

—(Hindu editorial, April 21 , 2008)

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LETTERS TO EDITOR

J.N. Sudhakar, Taiwan (sudhakarjns@yahoo. co.in): I am regularly receiving DV. After joining DV, I am receiving a series of e-mails from some Dalit organisations claiming that BSP has betrayed Dalits and they are the only true representatives of Babasaheb’s mission. What is this I don’t understand? I would like to know the conditions of Dalits in Tamil Nadu. Here there are many Tamils who are die-hard anti-Brahmins and they claim Tamil soil is liberated from Hinduism (Brahminism). When I asked them why they are all still Hindu, they said the brand of Hinduism in TN was different from other states. Their Hinduism is de-aryanised. It seems there is no Manu in Tamil Hinduism. Is this true? Almost all the Tamils here are BCs. When I questioned them why there are no Tamil Dalits here, they said “Tamil Dalits who study will get good jobs inside TN”. Please clarify.

Your question has been also bothering us for long. The land of Periyar has forgotten and betrayed Periyar. Our circulation in TN has fallen and we don’t have even a representative in Madras. Brahmins have brain-washed Dalits to criticise and fight the OBCs saying that they are anti-Dalit. At the same time the Brahmins approach the OBCs and tell them that Dalits are anti-BCs. This is called playing upon caste contradictions in which the enemy has great expertise. So the version given to you by Tamil BCs is wrong. Chief Minister Karunanidhi is a secret worshipper of Brahmins who have recovered TN from Bahujans — EDITOR.

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Nirwair Singh, 2015 -7th Street East, Suite 1M, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7H 0Z7: In the global village of modern-day world, nobody lives in far off land, unless one chooses to. Portraying hopelessness does not help combat the gravest enemy of humanity. That is why Sikhs pray for Charhdi Kala (high spirits) everyday. The method I suggested has been tried successfully time and again. To simply imagine its outcome and rule it out is not justifiable, specially when there is no alternative being offered. The donors for your “media centre” project need to feel it is their project. You will be surprised how many non-Dalits like me will contribute.

We did not tell you how many people we approached with our begging bowl in the last 15 years — at least. Everybody praised us, gave good dinner parties and that was the end. We choose our words after good deal of thought. The Sikhs, particularly the Jats carried us on their heads when we were released from the jail (1986) at Chandigarh. The then Akali Dal leader, Dindsa, who later became a Union Minister under Vajpayee, met us in the jail, honoured us on behalf of his party and offered to get us elected from Punjab to parliament. We rejected his offer. We are citing one solitary example to impress you the big support we received. But within ten years the whole situation changed. Today our circulation among Sikhs is down. Our Chandigarh DV silver jubilee was attended mainly by the Dalit Sikhs. We have written so much on the greatness of Sikhism and the need to revive it, freeing it from the Brahminical contamination but we get no response — EDITOR.