Dalit India: February 2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Mayawati as a next PM

“People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.” -- Kiran Bedi.

Power of Pen

I had read that the book named “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” authored by Harriet Beecher Stowe had made history. It was the second bestselling book of 19th century, next only to the Bible and published in 1852, the anti slavery novel had actually intensified the sectional conflict that finally led to American civil war and ultimately resulted in the abolition of slavery under the leadership of “Abraham Lincoln.” The book’s impact was so great that it is said that when Abraham Lincoln met author Stowe at the start of the Civil war, he commented, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.” Believe it or not this is power of the PEN.

Success Story

After watching the grand success of Mr. Barack Obama almost everyone wondered how a black can become President of most powerful nation in world? Most importantly Dalits of India started taking afresh dream which they are hoping to come true via Behan Mayawati. Behind the success story of Obama there is long story of using all the resources those can be used for effective campaigning, are we ready for all this?

Here is a detail of Obama’s campaign:

E-mails: 13 million people on the e-mail list, who received 7,000 variations of more than 1 billion e-mails.

Donors: 3 million online donors, who contributed 6.5 million times.

Social Network: 5 million friends on more than 15 social networking sites, 3 million friends on “Facebook” alone.

Website: 8.5 million monthly visitors to www.mybarackobama.com (at peak), 2 million profiles with 4, 00,000 blog posts, 35,000 volunteer groups that held more than 2,00,000 offline events, 70,000 functioning hubs that raised $30 million.

Videos: Nearly 2,000 official YouTube videos, watched more than 80 million times with 1, 35,000 subscribers, 4, 42,000 user generated videos on YouTube.

Mobile: 3 million signed up for the text messaging program, each received 5 to 20 messages per month.

Phone calls: 3 million personal phone calls placed in last 4 days of the campaign.

I am wondering if we (Dalit-Bahujans) those who want to see Behan-Mayawati as next Prime Minister of India doing enough for this? Coming elections is a great opportunity for all of us to bring change in India.

Few days ago news appeared “National Dalit Front” will support Mr. Paswan as next PM. It made me to think what founder of Bahujan Samaj Party, Babu Kanshi Ram had said in his book named “Chamcha Jug”. He had said “Hit the hand those operates the Chamchas.” Kanshi Ram has further advised us not to hit the Chamcha’s but hit the hands those operate such Chamchas (Congress operate) as there is endless list of Chamcha’s in our Samaj. If we’ll hit one of the Chamcha they’ll pick up next & next. But if we’ll hit the hands those pick such Chamcha’s they won’t dare to pick further!

For now our main concern should be how to capture political power in the coming elections.

I’ll ask everyone:

· Be proud to be a Buddhist.

· Unite yourself and be fearless, generate a new movement with confidence.

· Discard religious superstitions and; social evils, and adopt social reforms.

· Capture complete political power.

· Try to unite people & mold them towards the Mission of Baba Saheb.

· Fight against the forces those are dividing the Dalit unity.

· Selfless devotion, dedication with enthusiasm and assertive mass movement will lay the foundation of a new Dalit movement.

Create blogs; prepare e-mail lists, websites, SMS, create videos & upload do each & everything what you can do to make Behan Mayawati as next PM.

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What Obama’s Text Message Campaign Reveals

http://gigaom.com/2008/08/24/what-obamas-text-message-campaign-reveals/

Barack Obama's Million - Dollar Text Message?

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/barack-obama-s-million-dollar-text-message-

Friday, February 27, 2009

Let’s take Credit for Slums!

“Success has many fathers & failure has none!” – English Saying.

A day before I saw two pigs fighting for taking credit that I have made the place dirtier, but the second one was saying no, it’s not you but it’s me who had made this place dirtier, I have pissed more than you.

Winning 8 OSCAR, UPA Govt. counts in the list of “UPA’s Achievements” (for providing “Danny Boyle” slums!)

All the politicians are feeling proud & why shouldn’t they take credit for what they have nourished from last 60 years (or say last 1000s years!)? I do agree that all these politicians along with Mumbai Mayors should have been nominated for “Best Supporting Actor” category! As you all know keeping slums is how much difficult in this recession period! Major credit of OSCAR should go to many of our dedicated politicians, without their dedicated efforts of disgusting corruption; such condition of slums wouldn’t be possible.

I don’t think heads of these politicians will bow in shame when common people are living in slums. Rather than taking some efforts to give education to slum people, giving security, providing them with good houses these politicians are fighting for taking credit that see we have created slums & we won OSCAR for it! Let’s create more slums so as next time we give clean sweep to rest of world at OSCAR awards? Or I think next credit these politicians will take for Mumbai attacks that in our regime there were more terrorist attacks.

Same pigs I saw were again fighting over taking credit for fighting against terrorism. 1^st pig said in my regime in whole country there were more than 85 bomb blasts in 6 months. 2^nd pig claimed sees you have failed, in my regime there was a big Kargil War (1000s were killed, still wives, mothers of those heroes can’t believe that their husbands/sons are no more)! 2^nd pig didn’t stopped here, he continued to claim see in the states where I am ruling like in Orissa we killed thousands innocent Christians, in Bihar just because of our dedicated corrupt efforts there was flood in Kosi river, in Karnataka we attacked on innocent women in ‘Pub” (In England it means nothing but a “Public House”, where people meet & have some refreshment but these pigs have misunderstood this as brothel) as we are the real supporters of Hindu culture, this all we made possible only through inefficiency & unlawfulness!

1^st pig in my regime I made possible killing of Sikhs, 2^nd pig replied in my regime I made possible killing of Christians, Muslims. (Forget about the condition of Dalits both pigs can take equal credit).

1^st pig didn’t stopped here & how can he stop when there are many much things to take credit for? He said in my regime the number of children suffering from malnutrition went up from 15.5% to 19.1% while the number of kids under five with anemia rose from 74.2% to 79.2% though we have doubled the child specific schemes. Credit for this also goes to our dedicated corrupt, cunning politicians. 2^nd pig was hopeful that they will be given chance in next elections to improve this tally & then he’ll see the 1^st pig. Isn’t shameful that still millions children are deprived of their rights, food, security & health.

1^st pig is tackling 2^nd pig through “Bharat Nirman” that after coming again in power I’ll give cheap food to everyone (no need to give education & jobs as I am going to give 2kg rice free per month!). 2^nd pig claimed that after coming to power i’ll run Rath Yatra throughout India, i’ll provide trishuls to everyone (so as they can kill Christians, Muslims, and Dalits easily), I’ll start Surya Namaskar in schools, (I’ll bring superstitious to schools), bring astrology to schools then everyone will get job!

I was stunned how these pigs are fighting & I preferred to leave those pigs fighting…come back to slums…

OSCAR winning movie showed clearly that children being tortured, forced into begging profession (highly paid!) in addition to all other evils like corrupt police force, brothels etc. Does 1^st pig take credit for all of these?

People in slums are living in unimaginable poverty, stop taking credit for all these & work for improvement.

There were many more issues on which pigs wanted to take credit for, but till that time their landlord appeared & both disappeared! Anyhow pigs will continue fighting & it’s time for all of us to think, do we want to see these pigs in parliament again? Think logically & this time VOTE FOR CHANGE!

“Life is yours, choice is yours”!

Jai HO! (Salute to our politicians!)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Next PM: Mayawati has the best chance

Who will be the next prime minister of India? The probabilities are Mayawati 40-45%, Manmohan Singh 25-30%, L K Advani 10-15%, and others (up to a dozen people here) 10-15%.

Read complete stroy from :

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Next-PM-Mayawati-has-the-best-chance/articleshow/4058237.cms

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Mayawati to be next Indian PM: pollster (Lead)

February 23rd, 2009 - 9:32 pm ICT by IANS http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/mayawati-to-be-next-indian-pm-pollster-lead_100158791.html London, Feb 23 (IANS) The coming Indian general elections are likely to lead to a Left-leaning government led by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and supported from the outside by either the Congress or the BJP, a leading pollster predicted Monday. Yashwant Deshmukh, who runs the Team Cvoter polling firm and has covered more than 100 state and national elections in India, will tell leading British politicians this week that neither the Congress nor the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be able to win a majority in elections to the Lok Sabha. In fact, he believes that both parties will see their number of seats dramatically reduced. “I am looking at the possibility of Mayawati leading a government of an assortment of political parties, barring the Samajwadi Party,” he told IANS ahead of Wednesday’s House of Commons briefing for British MPs, members of thinktanks and businessmen and investors. “This government would be formed with either inside- or outside-support from the Left parties. But it will need the support of either the Congress or the BJP from the outside. “In the current scenario either of them will do it because no one wants to be seen as trying to stop a Dalit woman from becoming prime minister. Coming in her way would be committing political harakiri.” Deshmukh said the post-election scenario was less clear than in previous years, but predicted: “This time round the Congress party will be the loser and the BJP will be the even bigger loser. Both will all need to give away a lot of power if they’re going to even come close to a majority.” Vikas Pota, managing director of the public relations firm Saffron Chase, which is organising the briefing, said the elections were expected to lead to a slowdown in the process of liberalisation in India. “It seems that the current world recession is leading to protectionist language from all nations. It will be difficult to grow the insurance, retail and banking sectors as a result,” he told The Guardian newspaper. http://voteforbsp.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/27315615@N02/ http://www.youtube.com/dalitjade http://dalitindia.blogspot.com/

Monday, February 23, 2009

Some important decisions taken by BSP to keep eternally alive the memory of Manyavar Shri Kanshi Ram Ji

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About The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) or Majority People's Party is one of the only five prominent national political parties of India, which is the largest democracy of the world.

Brief Introduction :

The ideology of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is "Social Transformation and Economic Emancipation" of the "Bahujan Samaj ", which comprises of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Religious Minorities such as Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Parsis and Buddhists and account for over 85 per cent of the country's total population.

The people belonging to all these classes have been the victims of the "Manuwadi" system in the country for thousands of years, under which they have been vanquished, trampled upon and forced to languish in all spheres of life. In other words, these people were deprived even of all those human rights, which had been secured for the upper caste Hindus under the age-old "Manuwadi Social System".

Among the great persons (Mahapurush) belonging to "Bahujan Samaj", who fought courageously and with commitment against the brutal and oppressive Manuwadi system, for providing a level playing field to the downtrodden to help move forward in their lives with "self-respect" and at par with the upper castes Hindus, especially Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's socio-political campaign later proved to be very effective in this direction.

Though the contributions of leaders of the downtrodden communities like Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, Narayana Guru and Periyar E. V. Ramaswami have been immense in the fight against the obnoxious Manuwadi system, but the struggle of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, who was born in Scheduled Caste community, and that of Manyawar Kanshi Ram Ji later proved to be greatly effective and pregnant with far-reaching consequences.

Besides waging a spirited campaign against the Manuwadi Social System, Dr. Ambedkar instilled consciousness among not only the Dalits, but also among those belonging to other backward groups, which continue to be victimised and trampled under this oppressive and unjust Manuvadi Social System.

By virtue of his pivotal role in the framing of the Indian Constitution, these groups were given a number of rights in the Constitution on a legal basis to lead a life of dignity and self-respect. But he was fully conscious of the fact that these exploited sections of the society would not be able to get the full legal rights as long as the governments would remain dominated by the Manuwadi persons and parties.

That's why Dr. Ambedkar, during his lifetime, had counseled the "Bahujan Samaj" that if they wanted to fully enjoy the benefits of their legal rights, as enshrined in the Constitution, they would have to bond together all the Bahujan groups on the basis of unity and fraternity, bring them on a strong political platform and capture the "Master Key" of political power. This was to be the modus operandi for the formation of Bahujan Governments at the Centre and in States. Only such governments could enforce all the constitutional and legal rights of the "Bahujan Samaj" and provide opportunities to its People to move forward in all spheres of life besides enabling them to lead a life of "self-respect".

Keeping in view this observation and advice of Dr. Ambedkar, respected Manyawar Kanshi Ram Ji founded the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), with the help of his associates, on April 14, 1984. For many years while he enjoyed good health, he prepared the "Bahujan Samaj" to secure the "master key" of political power, which opens all the avenues for social and economic development.

However, being a diabetic and host of other serious ailments, his health did not permit him to lead an active political life for too long. On December 15, 2001, Manyawar Kanshi Ram Ji, while addressing a mammoth rally of the BSP at the Lakshman Mela Ground in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on the banks of the river Gomti, declared Kumari (Miss) Mayawati Ji, then the lone Vice-President of the Party, as his only political heir and successor.

Moreover, on September 15, 2003, Manyawar Kanshi Ram Ji's health suffered a serious setback, and the entire responsibility of the Party fell on the shoulders of Bahan (Sister) Kumari Mayawati Ji. Later, on September 18, 2003, the Party, through a consensus and in keeping with its Constitution, made her its National President.

Being the National President of a National Party, Kumari Mayawati Ji in her address sought to assure that "I would like to make aware people of the country that my Party, the BSP, is committed to not only improving the socio-economic conditions of people belonging to the "Bahujan Samaj" but also of the poor among the upper caste Hindus, small and medium farmers, traders and people engaged in other professions.

But people of the Manuwadi mindset, even if they are in different fields of life, are acting under a conspiracy to project the image of the BSP as if it is confined to championing the cause of Dalits alone and is opposed to the upper castes Hindus and other sections of the society. Also, the BSP has nothing to do with the issues of national interest. However, on the basis of facts, I can say with firmness and conviction that all such talks are a bunch of lies, baseless and devoid of facts and are nothing else more than a slanderous campaign of the status quoits Manuwadi forces. The policies, objectives and ideology of the BSP are crystal clear and attuned to the welfare of the entire country and its vast population.

On the basis of its ideology, the BSP wants to sound the death-knell of the "Manuwadi Social System" based on the 'Varna' (which is an inequality social system) and striving hard and honestly for the establishment of an egalitarian and "Humanistic Social System" in which everyone enjoys JUSTICE (social, economic and political) and EQUALITY (of status and of opportunity) as enshrined in the PREAMBLE of the Constitution.

Further, our Party Constitution very clearly states that "the chief aim and objective of the Party shall be to work as a revolutionary social and economic movement of change with a view to realise, in practical terms, the supreme principles of universal justice, liberty, equality and fraternity enunciated in the Constitution of India."

Such a social system is wholly in the overall interest of the Country and all sections of the society too. If, in this missionary work of "Social Transformation", people of the upper castes (Hindus) shed their Manuwadi mindset and join hands with the Bahujan Samaj, our Party, with all due respect and affection would embrace them. Such people will be given suitable positions in the Party organisation in accordance with their ability, dedication and efficiency, and there would be no distinction between them and those belonging to the Bahujan Samaj. Also they will be fielded as Party candidates in the parliamentary and assembly elections, and if our government is formed, they will also be given ministerial berths.

These are not hollow talks because the BSP in the past, during the three successive governments, had implemented all such promises. In Uttar Pradesh, Ms. Mayawati government was formed four times, and on each occasion, upper castes people were inducted in the Council of Ministers. Even an upper caste person was appointed to an all-important post of Advocate General. They were given the Party ticket for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections and also nominated to the Parliament's Upper Chamber i.e. Rajya Sabha and state Legislative Councils.

In addition, upper caste people have been given high posts in the Party organisation. For example, Mr. Satish Chandra Mishra was nominated to the Rajya Sabha and also was made national general secretary of the Party. In similar fashion, other castes of the Upper Castes (Hindus) were promoted.

Thus, keeping in view all these facts, it would be injudicious and fallacious to hold that the BSP works for the welfare of a particular group or section. Yes, the Party does give priority to those sections, which have been ignored and scorned all along by the Manuwadi governments in all spheres of life. In addition, the BSP has always contributed positively to all issues pertaining to the welfare of the Country. The BSP has always taken an unequivocal stand on issues of the Country's welfare and never compromised on the issues related to the interest of the country whenever the need arose.

Aims and Objectives

The chief aim and objective of the party shall be to work as a revolutionary social and economic movement of change with a view to realise, in practical terms, the supreme principles of universal justice, liberty, equality and fraternity enunciated in the Constitution of India, to be followed by State in governance, and in particular summed up in the following extract from the Preamble of the Constitution.

We, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

Justice, social, economic and political;

Liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

Equality of status and opportunity; and promote among them all

Fraternity assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;”

The Party shall regard its ideology as a movement for ending exploitation of the weaker sections and suppression of the deprived through social and economic change in keeping with the above stated chief aim, and its political activity and participation in governance as an instrument of furthering such a movement and bringing in such a change.

This being the chief aim of the Party, the strategy of the Party in public affairs will be governed by the following general principles:

1. That all citizens of India being equal before law are entitled to be treated as equal in true sense and in all matters and all walks of life, and where equality does not exist it has to be fostered and where equality is denied it has to be upheld and fought for.

2. That the full, free, uninhibited and unimpeded development of each individual is a basic human right and State is an instrument for promoting and realising such development;

3. That the rights of all citizens of India as enshrined in the Constitution of India and subject to such restrictions as are set out in the Constitution, have to be upheld at all costs and under all circumstances;

4. That the provisions of the Constitution requiring the State at Center and in States to promote with special care and protect the socio-economic interests of the weaker sections of the society denied to them for centuries, have to upheld and given practical shape in public affairs as a matter of prime most priority.

5. That economic disparities and the wide gaps between the ‘haves' and the ‘have nots' must not be allowed to override the political principle of “one man, one vote, one vote, one value” adopted by our republic.

6. That unless political empowerment is secured for the economically deprived masses they will not be able to free themselves from the shackles of economic and social dependence and exploitation.

In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the aims stated above the Party will work specially towards the following objectives:

1. The Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the other Backward Castes, and the minorities, are the most oppressed and exploited people in India. Keeping in mind their large numbers, such a set of people in India is known as the Bahujan Samaj. The Party shall organise these masses.

2. The party shall work for these down trodden masses to –

a. to remove their backwardness;

b. to fight against their oppression and exploitation;

c. to improve their status in society and public life;

d. to improve their living conditions in day to day life;

2. The social structure of India is based on inequalities created by caste system and the movement of the Party shall be geared towards changing the social system and rebuild it on the basis of equality and human values. All those who join the party with the commitment to co-operate in this movement of social change shall be ingratiated into the fold of the Party.

Towards the furtherance of the above noted aims and objectives the organisational units of Party as designated in this constitution, shall be empowered to:-

1. purchase, take on lease or otherwise acquire, and maintain, moveable or immovable property for the Party and invest and deal with monies of Party in such a manner as may from time to time be determined;

2. raise money with or without security for carrying out any of the aims and objectives of the Party;

3. to do all other lawful things and acts as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of any of the aforesaid aims and objectives,

Provided that none of these activities will be undertaken without the express approval of the National President.

Reference Sites: www.ironladykumarimayawati.org

http://www.bspindia.org/