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Hindutva Chaddis are confused about what to do to win in Uttar Pradesh and retain Gujarat
by Guest Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:24 pm
“Remember, it’s not about cow protection and Bharat Mata Ki Jai. It’s now reduced to a taunt, a jeer reflective of the searing visceral hatred for Dalits and Muslims”, a senior Congress Gujarat leader told me – after visiting Una where four Dalit youth were beaten up mercilessly for skinning a dead cow. Their assailants, self-assigned gau rakshaks, had filmed the boys being beaten up.
It was a prophetic remark, as the next day, Bharatiya Janata Party leader and newly minted vice-president, Dayashankar Singh compared Bahujan Samajwadi Party leader Mayawati to a “prostitute” and said she was worse than a sex worker. United outrage followed in Parliament and the BJP, keeping in view the upcoming mother of all electoral battles, expelled Singh.
Unfortunately for the BJP, this disastrous self-goal has considerably diminished its chances at the Uttar Pradesh hustings. The BJP was just about recovering from the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula and the spectacle of former Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani wagging her finger at four-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, who is also a Dalit. Irani and her belligerent insistence that Vemula was not a Dalit, was later proven wrong – and it had led to many Dalits being upset across the country.
The BJP and the Sangh is caught in a peculiar situation. As long as the gau rakshaks or cow vigilantes, who enjoy state support in BJP-ruled states, were targeting Muslims it played to the party’s base. Now that over 20 suicide attempts by Dalits have been reported from Gujarat, there is reason for both Modi and Shah to be worried about the rising Dalit anger which could well derail the BJP in UP, Gujarat and Punjab - where it is projected to do very poorly.
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has reported a 40 per cent rise in crime against Dalits in 2011-14, with the BJP-ruled states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh reporting the highest rates. Take the draconian beef laws passed by former pracharaks-turned-chief ministers Devendra Fadnavis in Maharasta and ML Khattar in Haryana and you can see why the Dalits feel they are under economic siege and can understand the outburst of rage.
Jobs in the leather industry, which employs mostly Dalits and Muslims, fell from 40,000 in 2013 to 8,000 in 2015, according to Indiaspend. The Sangh’s “savarna” problem is also the reason why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has maintained radio silence while his home state burns. A state which is now ripe for the electoral picking, as both Hardik Patel and Congress eye Modi’s citadel, the home of the fast unravelling Gujarat model.
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/Do-The-BJP-Or-Congress-Really-Know-How-To-Tackle-UP#T.ucefieppm
It was a prophetic remark, as the next day, Bharatiya Janata Party leader and newly minted vice-president, Dayashankar Singh compared Bahujan Samajwadi Party leader Mayawati to a “prostitute” and said she was worse than a sex worker. United outrage followed in Parliament and the BJP, keeping in view the upcoming mother of all electoral battles, expelled Singh.
Unfortunately for the BJP, this disastrous self-goal has considerably diminished its chances at the Uttar Pradesh hustings. The BJP was just about recovering from the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula and the spectacle of former Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani wagging her finger at four-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, who is also a Dalit. Irani and her belligerent insistence that Vemula was not a Dalit, was later proven wrong – and it had led to many Dalits being upset across the country.
The BJP and the Sangh is caught in a peculiar situation. As long as the gau rakshaks or cow vigilantes, who enjoy state support in BJP-ruled states, were targeting Muslims it played to the party’s base. Now that over 20 suicide attempts by Dalits have been reported from Gujarat, there is reason for both Modi and Shah to be worried about the rising Dalit anger which could well derail the BJP in UP, Gujarat and Punjab - where it is projected to do very poorly.
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has reported a 40 per cent rise in crime against Dalits in 2011-14, with the BJP-ruled states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh reporting the highest rates. Take the draconian beef laws passed by former pracharaks-turned-chief ministers Devendra Fadnavis in Maharasta and ML Khattar in Haryana and you can see why the Dalits feel they are under economic siege and can understand the outburst of rage.
Jobs in the leather industry, which employs mostly Dalits and Muslims, fell from 40,000 in 2013 to 8,000 in 2015, according to Indiaspend. The Sangh’s “savarna” problem is also the reason why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has maintained radio silence while his home state burns. A state which is now ripe for the electoral picking, as both Hardik Patel and Congress eye Modi’s citadel, the home of the fast unravelling Gujarat model.
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/Do-The-BJP-Or-Congress-Really-Know-How-To-Tackle-UP#T.ucefieppm
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