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  • Why dalits should stay away from suicidal leftist politics

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    The recent suicide of Rohit Vemula, a student at Hyderabad University, has taken the country by storm. The popular narration peddled by the media is that the poor student was pushed to commit suicide due to discriminatory action by the university administration in response to political vandalism exhibited by Vemula and his peers associated with Ambedkar Students Association (ASA). To summarize, Vemula and five other students were expelled from the university after beating up another fellow student and later the punishment was reduced to expulsion from hostel. Since then, these students were protesting against university action and probably under stress. Post suicide, the ASA, media and other political parties are trying to bring in a Dalit angle to this incident by complaining that students were given harsh punishment due to their Dalit identity — a fact which is debatable.

    In the following paragraphs, we will not be dissecting this particular incident but talk specifically about how Ambedkar would have been pained by his name being used by anti-national and anti-Dalit organizations like ASA and Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC). More importantly, we will throw some light on how Dalit politics is hijacked by anti-national leftists and Marxists in India and why Dalits and specifically SC/ST and OBC students should stay away from the politics of such organizations. Under the garb of Dalit identity, these organizations headed by upper caste Hindus (check yourself that top leaders of left parties like CPI(M) etc. are almost always Brahmins or upper castes) want to exploit the fault lines present in Hindu society to further their own agenda and trap poor Dalit students in ugly college level politics.

    First, let me ask a few questions about history to get started. Who was the prominent Hindu leader in favour of partition of India before Congress succumbed under Jinnah’s pressure? Who was the prominent leader who wanted proper population exchange at the time of partition and thought without total population exchange Hindus will get a bad deal? Who was the leader who recognised the true destructive nature of Islam that we fail to acknowledge even today after seeing events like Malda and Muzzafarnagar? The answer to all the above questions is Ambedkar. Among the idealists and other crazy national leaders, Ambedkar was one of the few rational thinkers and realists in 1947.

    Post-independence, Ambedkar has been digested by the left and his legacy has been reduced to a Dalit thinker. This has been done because Ambedkar’s views were vehemently against Abrahamics (both Islam and Christianity) and state control of the economy. These other identities of Ambedkar have been carefully suppressed by the leftist intelligentsia — and this is one of the reasons that most celebrated Dalit intellectuals today, who are promoted by the media and universities like JNU, demand government control of the economy and side with Abrahamics wherever possible.

    Ambedkar’s opinion about Islam is as hard-hitting today as it was 70 years ago. In his book on partition of India, he wrote:

    According to Muslim Canon Law the world is divided into two camps, Dar-ul-Islam (abode of Islam) and Dar-ul-Harb (abode of war). A country is Dar-ul-Islam when it is ruled by Muslims. A country is Dar-ul-Harb when Muslims only reside in it but are not rulers of it. That being the Canon Law of the Muslims, India cannot be the common motherland of the Hindus and the Musalmans. It can be the land of the Musalmans — but it cannot be the land of the Hindus and the Musalmans living as equals…

    — B.R. Ambedkar, The Partition of India

    No surprise that in the last few years of his life, when Ambedkar lost hope of reforming Hindus, he chose to convert to Buddhism — another Dharmic religion — instead of joining the fold of Abrahamics. Ambedkar had written and clearly presented evidence that caste and other evil Hindu practices were equally present in Islam and Christian converts, and so conversion to these cults served no purpose. On top of that, these religions separate the individual from his roots by carefully planting the seeds of extra-territorial allegiance towards Mecca and Rome. So Ambedkar perfectly envisaged that conversion to Abrahamic cults would lead to destruction of Indic civilization.

    Looking at the above views of Ambedkar, it is no surprise that the Marxist cabal reduced Ambedkar to a mere Dalit icon. Ambedkar’s image has been used to fuel anti-caste sentiment and promote hatred towards Hinduism rather than reduce casteism from Indian society. Rather than promoting native Dalit intellectual and Dalit entrepreneurship associations like DICCI, Dalits are sold the narrative of victimhood by anti-national rabble-rousers like ASA and APSC and their parent organizations which often follow Marxist ideology.

    These parent organizations are usually headed by upper caste elites who want to exploit the fault lines in Hinduism and align with Muslims and Christians to maintain their hegemony. They do not have the best interest of Dalits but use them as mere pawns and cannon fodder in this political game. Does it come as a surprise that in 40 years that CPI ruled Bengal, the CPI Politburo had no Dalit members? Does it come as a surprise that for every Kancha Ilaiah, there are hundreds of Rajdeep Sardesai-style upper caste anti-nationals? When the shit hits the fan, Dalits will always be the first victims and at the receiving end of Muslim atrocities as evidenced from daily events in West Bengal. Given this scenario, Dalits should reject this poison sold by snake oil salesmen in the media and intelligentsia.

    Given the analysis above, we can now analyse the current suicide as part of a bigger narrative being built in different parts of India to exploit Dalit identity. This suicide can be traced back to the protest held by these Dalit students against the hanging of Yakub Menon, a proven terrorist. It should not come as a surprise that these Dalits had been brainwashed to such an extent that their protest reflected the anti-territorial affinities usually shown only by hardcore Abrahamics or anti-national apologists.

    So, what is the way forward for Dalits? Dalit students should try to stay away from politics and focus on their education, as the free market is their best bet to fight caste discrimination and reform Hindu society. For the politically motivated ones who want to enter student politics, they should realise that leftist jholachaps have little to offer them except false victimhood. They need to realise that a stronger and united India is more in the interest of Dalits than the current generation of upper caste rulers and intelligentsia, who want to consolidate power by playing divide and rule. Only when Dalits realise and neutralise this nefarious design can they claim the legacy of Ambedkar and fulfil his dream of creating a strong and just India.

    References:

    The Partition of India — B.R. Ambedkar

  • India should stop turning criminals like Rohit into martyrs

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    It is disgusting to watch news and look at the way presstitutes are handling the suicide of a terrorist-sympathising anti-national college hooligan just because he belongs to a lower caste. Rohit Vemula and his fellow leftist hooligans had organised a protest inside the campus in support of the terrorist Yakub Menon, who was responsible for bombing more than 200 people in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. When some students in his college wrote on Facebook exposing these anti-national students, he and his fellow leftist hooligans beat up those students. The students who were the actual victims of the hooliganism of this guy and his fellow thugs complained to the college management about this misbehaviour. Taking strict action, the college management then suspended this group of thugs for goondaism inside college premises.

    But for obvious reasons the media presstitutes have chosen to completely ignore the sequence of events that led to the suicide of this anti-national thug and are now painting a false picture of a poor Dalit student getting uneven treatment by an upper caste university management — because telling the truth would not help their anti-national agenda. What’s worse is that they are now trying to pin the blame of suicide on the Vice Chancellor of the university, who in all fairness was more than generous in handling this issue. This reasoning is ridiculous but then again did we ever expect sane arguments from the leftist anti-nationals?

    Firstly, it is difficult to force anyone to commit suicide. Trying to push the narrative that this anti-national thug was forced into suicide by the VC is just ridiculous. The only people who could have vested interest in Rohit’s suicide are his other fellow suspended comrades or the Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) — the organization behind the protest in support of Yakub Menon. They are the ones who are now getting cheap publicity by this episode. This sequence of events is similar to the suicide that was staged at Kejriwal’s rally a year ago. Secondly, the guy in question is not innocent by any means and his punishment was not out of proportion to what he did. In fact, the management was lenient when he was left with just expulsion from hostel instead of expelling him and his fellow hooligans from college outright.

    Supporting terrorism and indulging in hooliganism is not innocence. Being a Dalit does not give leeway to engage in anti-national activities nor does it give anyone any right to indulge in rowdyism inside college. In fact what the VC did was actually very mild compared to what this anti-national deserved — he and his fellow anti-nationals should have been expelled from college instead of being expelled just from the hostel for beating up other students. But no, for some reason his Dalit identity is given as an excuse for his anti-national activities and the media presstitutes want us to overlook this misbehaviour.

    This is unacceptable behaviour from the media as well as the students now engaged in protest. And as usual, all the anti-national politicians from Kejriwal to Rahul Gandhi are ganging up to visit this thug’s funeral and turn him into some sort of hero. As a society, how does it make sense to turn an anti-national rowdy into a hero post suicide? And where were these Dalit-saving brigades including Rahul Gandhi and Kejriwal when Dalit houses and shops were burnt in Malda and Dalit Hindus were forced out of their homes?

    We will go further and say that the students who are currently protesting against the VC for his action against the anti-national Rohit Vemula are just supporting an anti-national unlawful rowdy masquerading as a student. Such students should be strictly punished — with suspension and expulsion if necessary — so that such anti-national politics are not condoned in the future. Our government should make it very clear that no one has any right to indulge in any anti-national activity and caste identity does not give a free pass for such behaviour.

    Any leniency on the students protesting in favour of the anti-national rowdy will only set a bad precedent for such anti-national goondaist activities inside the universities and will lead to further worsening of law and order and the academic environment. The government needs to nip this nuisance in its bud. We don’t want all our universities to turn into anti-national factories like JNU. One JNU is more than enough to fulfil our suicidal tendency of supporting anti-national ideologies.

    Originally published January 19, 2016 on Yuga Parivartan.