What is this Mr Karunanidhi? You oppose Rama and surrender to a new avtar of Gandhi Nehru Dynasty, the Base of the Brahminical Imperialism in India?

What is this Mr Karunanidhi? You oppose Rama and surrender to a new avtar of Gandhi Nehru Dynasty, the Base of the Brahminical Imperialism in India?

Saga of Bloody Vigilante Justice Continues

Palash Biswas

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 Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:51 AM

The congress went into election mode on Monday as party president Sonia Gandhi named her war team with her son and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi positioned to play a major role.Hindu extremist groups have actively been campaigning against Christians in India for close to a decade yet there is little the Indian Government has done to check what continues to fuel the countrys worst incidents of religious persecution.Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday welcomed Congress president Sonia Gandhi giving higher responsibilities to youngsters. Karunanidhi boasts to represent Dramuk Culture and poses as a leader of Anti Brahminical Hegemony as he expressed well with his comments on Rama to defend Setu Samudram Project. What is this Mr Karunanidhi? You oppose rama and surrender to a new avtar of Gandi Nehru Dynasty, the base of the brahminical Imperialism in India? See the skin exposed as Arunachal Pradesh government on Tuesday denied allegations of a nexus between the ULFA and the state Congress leaders and said it was ready to face any investigation in this regard!The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) may witness a split with internecine clashes on the upswing coupled with growing disenchantment among cadres who are either sick or dying in the jungles due to lack of medication, a top army commander Wednesday said.

Special Economic Zones had only helped global monopolies to create their colonies in independent India, CPI leader and AITUC General Secretary Gurudas Das Gupta said today.

Dismissing the contention of the Centre that it has done tremendous work in spreading elementary literacy in the country, the Supreme Court today held that educational development is not due to any Governmental efforts but communities' own incentives.

Elected representatives from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes fail to speak up for the cause of their communities because their political survival depends on "upper caste" votes, said Bojja Tarakam, Dalit leader from Andhra Pradesh and President of the South India cell of the Republican Party of India.

Five more lynched in Bihar

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Patna:At least eleven people have died in Bihar as incessant rains continued to lash the state for the second day Wednesday.Meanwhile, Bihar's saga of bloody vigilante justice continues with five people being beaten to death at various places for various reasons, ranging from property disputes to petty theft.All five, including one woman, were lynched by mobs on Monday and Tuesday. The woman was killed on suspicion of practicing witchcraft. One man lost his life because he was suspected to be a thief, another over a dispute on drainage and two over property issues.

In a savage irony, Sanichri Devi, 60, a poor woman in Kaimur district's Kotamdag Kolhuan village, was beaten to death with bamboo sticks for allegedly practicing witchcraft after a witchcraft practitioner said she was the one responsible for the ills of the village.

"She was first humiliated and hot water poured on her body to force her to accept that she was practicing witchcraft. When she refused, she was thrashed and beaten to death by bamboo sticks," police said.

Police have lodged a case against six villagers under the Prevention of Witchcraft Practices Act.

In the second incident, Bikram Ram, 22, was lynched in Lohkhara village of Gopalgunj district on Monday night when he was caught after allegedly stealing something from the house of Kariman Manjhi. Police have registered a case against Manjhi.

Parmanand Prasad, 35, was beaten to death with bamboo sticks and rods in Dumri village in Siwan district over a property dispute.

Similar was the case of 27-year-old Lal Babu Sahni who was killed in Laxmipur village of Muzaffarpur district over a land dispute.

A dispute over drainage claimed the life of 45-year-old Shiv Narayan Sah in Hakpara village of Saharsa district.

Before this, several cases of lynching in the state have come to light in the last 15 days.

The worst of these was the brutal killing of 10 men from the underprivileged Kueri community in Vaishali district on September 13. A high-level probe conducted after the incident found that the men were not thieves as suspected earlier.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar imposed a fine against the residents of the village where the men were lynched.

Two suspected thieves were beaten to death by a mob in a Patna locality last week. The same week a young man in Sitamarhi was murdered by a mob on suspicion that he had stolen a statue.

WITH THE National Scheduled Castes Commission headed by Buta Singh accusing the Mayawati government of ignoring the interest of the community, principal secretary (Law) SMA Abdi today said that fast track courts (FTCs) had been set up in 56 districts to take up cases of atrocities against Dalits.THE MAYAWATI government on Friday locked horns with the chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Buta Singh over his allegations of rising atrocities on Dalits in the State.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide, the organisation supporting persecuted Christians worldwide, is embarking on a two week trek to India from 13-26 October. The majority of CSW’s work in India focuses on the Dalit population (formerly known as the ‘untouchables’), the lowest level of India’s caste system. Although they make up around a third of the entire population, 70 percent of Dalits live below the poverty line. Often viewed as subhuman, they are forced into filthy, degrading jobs, have poor living conditions and are denied access to basic medical services and education. In addition, many of the Dalit women are sold into bonded prostitution. The 20 participants will spend 13 days visiting the sights of India, beginning in the Himalayan foothills and leading through the mountains, snow-capped ridges and forests, as well as a Dalit Education Centre and church. Felicity North, one of the trekkers who also works at CSW, said: "This is our first ever fundraising and awareness trek and we’re really excited about it. It has the potential to change both the lives of the participants and the Dalit people."

The Amethi MP walked into the AICC compound, led by his mother, through a side gate on the wall separating the 24, Akbar Road party headquarters and the 10, Janpath residence of Ms Gandhi.The central government asserted before the Supreme Court Wednesday that there cannot be any time limit on reservation. World Bank officials have refused to be held accountable for their policy and project interventions in India as highlighted by the four-day meeting of the Independent Peoples Tribunal (IPT) in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus in New Delhi. On the other hand, Authorities in the All India Institute of Medical Services (AIIMS) have set up a high-level committee to look into the alleged charges of caste harassment raised by an assistant professor of the radiotherapy department.

Actor Shilpa Shetty faced some unpleasant and embarrassing moments at the international airport in Mumbai early on Wednesday when an immigration official allegedly spoke rudely to her just before she was to leave for Germany for West End ...

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president J. P. Agarwal on Tuesday said that Dalits had always extended unstinting support to the Congress and expressed confidence that the party would win the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections next year for the third time in a row riding on their support.Addressing a convention at Rajiv Bhavan in New delhi, Mr. Agarwal said his party had always protected the interests of the Dalits and the community in return had reposed full faith in the party for its efforts towards their growth and uplift.He said the Delhi Government had been taking new initiatives for their welfare and the efforts had helped a great deal in protecting the interests of the community.

"The future of Dalits is safe under the dynamic leadership of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the dreams of Father of the Nation Mahatama Gandhi and Bharat Ratna B. R. Ambedkar will be realised under her stewardship," said Mr. Agarwal.

Hailing the appointment of Rahul Gandhi as All-India Congress Committee general secretary, Mr. Agarwal hoped that his young and dynamic leadership would help the Congress grow. Senior party leader Yogendra Makwana exhorted the Dalits to unite under the Congress flag and fight for their own uplift and betterment of the country as a whole.

Tamil Nadu's opposition AIADMK Wednesday filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking to declare as unconstitutional a strike called by the ruling DMK on Oct 1 to press for the continuation of the controversial Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh today demanded protection for his party workers from the Central Government for the October 1 shutdown called by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).

And this is equally amusing as another prominent Tamil leader sings well in Hindutva Tune!

Accusing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi of hurting religious sentiments by his anti-Ram remarks, AIADMK Chief Jayalalithaa today asked the Centre to dismiss the DMK government, as it was "functioning against the Indian Constitution."

Talking to reporters here, Jayalalithaa said Karunanidhi, forgetting his constitutional responsibility, was making derogatory remarks against Ram, who was revered by crores of Hindus across the world.

The Centre should therefore dismiss the Tamil Nadu government immediately and remove DMK ministers from the union cabinet, she demanded.

Jayalalithaa, who led a party demonstration seeking the resignation of Karunanidhi and also the dismissal of his government, said her party was not against the implementation of the Sethusamudram project.

However, the DMK was campaigning and making it seem as if the AIADMK was working against the project, she said.

On the proposed Tamil Nadu bandh on October one called by the DMK and its allies to press for speedy implementation of the Sethusamudram project, Jayalalithaa described it as 'anti-people and anti-constitutional'. The party would approach the High Court against the bandh, she said.

"No comments and the question is not necessary now," she said when asked about the 'third front'.

Bojja Tarakam, Dalit leader from Andhra Pradesh and President of the South India cell of the Republican Party of India has said that elected representatives from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes fail to speak up for the cause of their communities because their political survival depends on ‘upper caste’ votes. He was speaking at a function organised by the Federation of SC / ST Employees Welfare Associations to mark the 75th anniversary of the Poona Pact.

(About the Poona Pact: To draft a new Constitution involving self-rule for the native Indians, the British invited various leaders for Round Table conferences in 1930-32. Mahatma Gandhi did not attend the first Round Table conference but attended the subsequent conferences. The concept of separate electorates for the untouchables was raised by Dr B. R. Ambedkar; such a provision was already available to minorities such as Muslims, Sikhs etc, at the time. The British government agreed with Dr Ambedkar's contention. But Gandhi strongly opposed it on the grounds that the move would disintegrate Hindu society. He went on an indefinite hunger strike from September 20, 1932 while he was lodged in the Yerawada Jail in Pune, against the decision of the British Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald's Communal Award to the depressed classes (untouchables) in the constitution for the governance of British India. The nation was deeply concerned about the health of the Mahatma. Dr Ambedkar came under tremendous pressure to save the life of Mahatma Gandhi and a compromise between the leaders of caste Hindus and Ambedkar was worked out on September 24, 1932; this is the Poona Pact).

According to Tarakam, Dalit MLAs and MPs being at the mercy of upper caste Hindu votes is a sad legacy of the agreement between Gandhiji and B R Ambedkar in 1932. While I agree that most of the Dalit MLAs and MPs have become stooges of politicians, I wonder why Dalit leaders like Tarakam do not do some soul-searching. What Tarakam has said of Dalit MLAs and MPs is true of MLAs and MPs belonging to the minority communities too.

It takes two hands to clap. It is the lure of filthy lucre that leads the Dalit MLAs / MPs astray as it does the non-Dalit MLAs / MPs. Some such Dalit MLAs / MPs manage to bag ministerial berths and the vested interests that have ‘purchased’ them project them as the leaders of the Dalit community. Which politician would like to let go of an assured vote bank, particularly when it can be bought, courtesy the ‘projected’ leaders? Thus the Dalits stagnate, barring those ‘leaders’ who have been ‘trapped’ and ‘projected’ by vested interests in the manner I have explained. I would even say that it is naïve to believe that a community will be best served only if it is led by one belonging to the community. I can cite the case of Kanshi Ram, a Brahmin, who fought relentlessly for the cause of the oppressed classes until the end. He had also antagonized his own relatives and friends in the process. Undeterred he went ahead since he had the courage of his own convictions. Brahmins these days have more faith in Mayawati’s party than in the so-called Brahminical BJP!

Even amongst the Dalits, some have fared better than the others. If you compare the progress made by the Dalits of Kerala and Tamilnadu with the progress made by the Dalits from the rest of the country, you will definitely agree with my argument. How and why this has been possible only amongst the Dalits of Kerala and Tamilnadu? The explanation is simple: they went to the root of the problem.

In Kerala and Tamilnadu (in that order) from the very beginning, the anti-upper caste movement was based on the deep-rooted conviction that education is the only vehicle that can ensure the success of the movement. It is this conviction that is lacking in the Dalit communities of other States of India. It is the duty of Dalit leaders like Mr Bojja Tarakam that this gap in education is bridged. It is education which ensured that Dalits like Dr Narayanan became the President of India. It is education that led many Dalits from the States of Kerala and Tamilnadu to become judges of High Courts and the Supreme Court. (It is a different matter that the media almost gave the impression that they occupied such coveted posts because of the caste factor). Eventually, this will also en-sure that those Dalits ‘projected’ as Dalit leaders by vested interests are exposed for what they are and isolated. It is high time people like Tarakam persuaded the Dalits to take this cost-effective and surefire route to prosperity.

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today lamented that it was the country's ''misfortune'' that the Congress actually felt proud about its tendency to encourage dynastic politics.

Mumbai: Six indigenously made bombs were found on Wednesday in the Andheri area of Mumbai. Currently the police are investigating the possibility of a terror attack. Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother, Iqbal Kaskar, has surrendered before a special court in Mumbai in connection with a case relating to the illegal construction of Sara-Sahara shopping malls. The Society of Friends of Sassoon Hospital (SOFOSH) and Bhartiya Samaj Seva Kendra (BSSK), the two orphanages in Pune, have come up with a novel way of maintaining records of their children by using video technology. Amid beats of drums and cymbals, chants of "Ganapati bappa mouraya", people of Maharashtra Tuesday bid adieu to Lord Ganapati - as the 10-day-long festival drew to a close.

New delhi:President Pratibha Patil, VP Mohd Hamid Ansari, LS Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and a host of other leaders greeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who turned 75 on Wednesday.The CBI arrested on Tuesday former Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief secretary Akhand Pratap Singh for misusing his office. "He was nabbed while trying to flee a farmhouse in south Delhi," an officer of the agency said.

Agartala:Tension was mounting over construction of a shopping mall in north Tripura as some local people accused the Tripura Government of occupying a Wakf land near a mosque bordering Assam.

Thiruvananthapuram : The Kerala Government today decided to lodge a strong protest with the Centre regarding the criteria for identifying Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan today said a Security Commission will be formed for modernisation of the police force in the state.