రిజర్వేషన్లపై కర్ణిసేన అధ్యక్షుడి సంచలన వ్యాఖ్యలు

రిజర్వేషన్లపై కర్ణిసేన అధ్యక్షుడి సంచలన వ్యాఖ్యలు
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ఇండోర్ (మధ్యప్రదేశ్) : దేశంలో విద్యా, ఉద్యోగాల్లో రిజర్వేషన్ల కల్పన విషయంలో భారత కర్ణిసేన అధ్యక్షుడు సుఖ్‌దేవ్‌సింగ్ గోగమెడి సంచలన వ్యాఖ్యలు చేశారు. దేశంలో విద్యా, ఉద్యోగాల్లో రిజర్వేషన్లు కులాల ప్రాతిపదికగా కాకుండా వారి ఆర్థిక స్థితిగతులను బట్టి కల్పించాలని కర్ణిసేన అధ్యక్షుడు సుఖ్‌దేవ్‌సింగ్ డిమాండ్ చేశారు. ‘‘దేశంలో 78 శాతం మంది ప్రజలు రిజర్వేషన్లకు దూరంగా ఉన్నారు. ధనవంతులు, పలుకుబడి ఉన్న వారు రిజర్వేషన్ ఫలాలను అనుభవిస్తున్నారు. దారిద్ర్యరేఖకు దిగువన ఉన్న పేదలకు రిజర్వేషన్లు దక్కడం లేదు.’’ అని సుఖ్‌దేవ్‌సింగ్ వ్యాఖ్యానించారు. దేశంలో రిజర్వేషన్లు కులాల ప్రాతిపదికన కాకుండా వారి వారి ఆర్థిక స్థితిగతులను బట్టి ఇవ్వాలని ఆయన డిమాండ్ చేశారు. కులాల ప్రాతిపదికగా రిజర్వేషన్లు కల్పిస్తూ పాలకులు ప్రజలను విభజిస్తున్నారని, అందుకే రిజర్వేషన్లపై 2020లో సమీక్షించాలని కర్ణిసేన అధ్యక్షుడు సుఖ్‌దేవ్‌సింగ్ కోరారు. రిజర్వేషన్ల అమలుపై సమీక్షించాలని, కులాల ప్రాతిపదికగా కాకుండా ఆర్థిక స్థితిగతులను బట్టి రిజర్వేషన్లు కల్పించాలని కోరుతూ తాము దేశంలో ఆందోళన చేస్తామని కర్ణిసేన అధ్యక్షుడు సుఖ్‌దేవ్‌సింగ్ వివరించారు.

Onam – Remembering The Murder of “Asura” King Mahabali

Onam – Remembering The Murder of “Asura” King Mahabali
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Onam is probably the only festival in Kerala which is celebrated across religions. Reasons could be different but it is observed by almost everyone in Kerala.

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Amit Shah’s tweet on Onam a few years ago

While Dalits celebrate it as a homecoming of Mahabali, a mythical demon king associated with Dalit identity, RSS/BJP celebrates it as the birth of Vamana, Brahmin, whom they consider as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. No surprises here.

Further, RSS mouthpiece, Kesari suggests that Onam be celebrated as Vamana Jayanti and the pot-bellied, handlebar king (Bali) be sent back to the netherworld, where all demons should belong.



In an attempt to distort and erase any reference to Dalit ruler, Brahmins have cooked various stories in which Dalits were portrayed as demons in mythical stories. According to the myths cooked by Brahmins, Mahabali is considered as a demon (Asura) king who ruled Kerala and was known for his giving and charitable nature. However, Dalit consider him to be a just and egalitarian icon.

The story of Onam goes like this –

Vishnu took the form of Vamana (diminutive) Brahmin and asks for three footlongs of land from King Mahabali. After Mahabali agreed, Vamana assumed a gargantuan form – he covered the earth with one step and the skies in another. For his third step, Vamana asked where shall he put his third step and Mahabali offered his own head. Vamana stepped on him and pushed him down to the netherworld, but granted Mahabali a yearly visit to his kingdom. This annual visit, homecoming, is celebrated in Kerala as Onam.

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Later Brahmins wrote various Veda and scriptures in which Bali, an Asura king, was denigrated and Vamana, representing Brahmins, was glorified.

Despite the fact, Bali’s welfare state was beneficial to everyone, including Brahmins, Brahmins hated Bali just because he belonged to an Asura race according to them. Could we say, under King Bali, it was the first welfare state in the world?



According to Jotiba Phule, the Varna system began to be established after the defeat of Bali and Jotiba writes about King Bali and Vamana in his book Gulamgiri (Slavery). [Read – Onam – What Jotiba Phule Said About King Bali and Vamana] Hence, it could be said that Onam also marks the beginning of the caste system and slavery in Kerala.

Further according to Jotiba Phule, Bali was killed in the battlefield but his son Banasura defeated Vamana and Bali’s subjects celebrated the victory. To this day, women in Maharashtra remember Bali’s egalitarian rule and say,

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“Ida Peeda Jao, Bali Raj Yeo” (May our troubles and sorrows go, and Bali’s rule return).

“Bali thus became for him [Phule] the symbol of human achievement. The missionary influence was demonstrated by his reference to Christ as the “Bali of the West.” Where most Europeans had seen Krishna as the equivalent and counter to Christ, and were followed by Brahmin theorists like Harishchandra making a reversal to claim priority for Krishna and Vishnu, Phule instead looked at the asura Bali as Christ. Bali figures at the centre of a long and somewhat puzzling Brahminic myth, killed despite his generosity by the deceitful Brahmin boy Waman [or Vamana],” writes Gail Omvedt in her book ‘Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals’.



“The insistence to continue the celebration of Onam, therefore, is an insistence to celebrate the defeat of the struggles of the untouchables and the lower-castes of our country,” writes James Micheal on Round Table India.

2019 Padmashree Daya Pawar Memorial Award for Sheetal Sathe

2019 Padmashree Daya Pawar Memorial Award for Sheetal Sathe

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This year, ‘Padmashri Daya Pawar Smruti Puraskar’ (Padmashri Daya Pawar Memorial Award) was awarded to Meghana Pethe, Sheetal Sathe and Malika Amar Shaikh. This award is given in memory of Padmashree Daya Pawar. The award consists of a memento/trophy and cash of Rs. eleven thousand.


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Heartfelt congratulations to Sheetal Sathe on winning the extremely prestigious 2019 Padmashree Daya Pawar Memorial Award. I hope everyone recognises the untiring hard work she has put in. She deserves every accolade for winning such a highly-regarded honour.

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“Heartfelt congratulations to Sheetal Sathe on winning the extremely prestigious 2019 Padmashree Daya Pawar Memorial Award. I hope everyone recognises the untiring hard work she has put in. She deserves every accolade for winning such a highly-regarded honour,” tweeted Prakash Ambedkar, National President of Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi and Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh.

About Sheetal Sathe
Sheetal Sathe is a well-known folk singer, poet and Dalit activist from Maharashtra. She is one of the lead singers of the famous troupe, Kabir Kala Manch. She has been prominently featured in Anand Patwardhan’s documentary film, Jai Bhim Comrade. Kabir Kala Manch had played an important role to mobilize people during Khairlangi protests in Maharashtra.

Sheetal Sathe’s performances are a unique mixture of Ambedkarite, Socialism and Feminism ideologies. In one of her songs, she calls for new Ambedkar in our new era.

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“Better to sacrifice this body
than live like a corpse
Open your eyes to the
dream of Dalit martyrs
And create a new Bhim
For our new era.”

In May 2011, a crackdown by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on musicians and poets accused of promoting Maoist or Naxalite ideology led to Sathe and other members of Kabir Kala Manch going into hiding.

Sathe and her husband, Sachin Mali, also a member of Kabir Kala Manch, finally came out of hiding in April 2013 at the Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai, declaring it an act of satyagraha for free expression and not “surrender”, while also maintaining their innocence of the charges levelled against them. But in spite of her pregnancy, Sathe, along with her husband, were denied bail immediately and again on 4 June 2013 by the Mumbai Sessions Court. Finally, she was granted bail by the Bombay high court on 28 June 2013 on humanitarian grounds.

Award
Daya Pawar was a novelist, poet and writer from Ambedkarite literary tradition and his autobiographical novel ‘Baluta’ was one of the first works of literary genius from Dalit/Ambedkarite literary tradition; Baluta has also won several awards and went for numerous editions for publications. ‘Padmashri Daya Pawar Memorial Award’, stands for the commemoration of Daya Pawar and his literary contribution and to appreciate the literary contribution of contemporary writers, poets and novelists within the progressive movement. [Source]

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The ‘Baluta’ award, started last year, has also been announced. This year’s recipient (the second recipient to win this award) is Dr Mangesh Banasode. He won it for his book ‘Ushta’, a Marathi translation of the Hindi book ‘Joothan’ – the autobiography well-known author Omprakash Valmiki.

The publishing house ‘Granthali’ has instituted this award to celebrate the 40th year of publication of ‘Baluta’ – the highly acclaimed autobiography of the late Daya Pawar.

The awards will be given by the Padmashree Daya Pawar Foundation in a ceremony to be held on Friday, 20 Sept at 5.30 pm at the hall of ‘Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh’ (Bombay Association of Marathi journalists), Mumbai.

The chief guests would be Pratima Joshi, Dr Harishchandra Thorat and Dr Raosaheb Kasbe.

Reservation should continue till beneficiaries need it, says RSS
RSS joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale added that reservation is needed because there is social and economic disparity in society

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Published 9.09.19, 4:34 PMUpdated 9.09.19, 4:34 PM
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat participates in the seven-day RSS camp, in Pushkar on Tuesday, September 3, 2019
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat participates in the seven-day RSS camp, in Pushkar on Tuesday, September 3, 2019
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Reservation is required because there is social and economic disparity in the society, and should continue till its beneficiaries feel it is needed, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh said in Pushkar on Monday.

RSS joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale added that the organisation strongly feels that temples, cremation grounds and water reservoirs should be open for all and not restricted to any specific caste.

"There is social and economic disparity in our society and therefore reservation is required...we totally support the reservation as mandated by the Constitution," he said at a press conference on the last day of the Sangh's three-day coordination meeting.

Asked whether the RSS feels reservation should not continue indefinitely, Hosabale said it is for the beneficiaries of the system to decide.

"Reservation should continue till its beneficiaries feel it is required," he said, clearing his organisation's stance on quotas.

A Dalit organisation, he said, had written to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat applauding the Sangh's stand on ending discrimination in the society.

Reservation was not on the agenda of the Sangh's coordination meeting and was not discussed.

Over 200 delegates of 35 RSS affiliates attended the coordination meeting, the first after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

BJP working president J. P. Nadda and general secretary (organisation) B. L. Santhosh also attended the meeting.

Bhagwat recently suggested that a dialogue should be held in a harmonious atmosphere between those who avail themselves of reservation benefits and those who don't.






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"On the issue of reservation, they will be needed till the time there is untouchability, economic need, and its beneficiaries feel they require it," RSS joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said
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Reservation Should Go On Till There Is Untouchability: RSS
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PUSHKAR: Reservations should continue in the country till discrimination exists in the society, whether in the form of untouchability or economic reasons, said Dattatreya Hosabale, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) joint general secretary.
"RSS chief has said that water sources, temple and cemeteries should be available to everyone. On the issue of reservation, they will be needed till the time there is untouchability, economic need, and its beneficiaries feel they require it. The day it stops and its beneficiaries say we do not need it anymore then it will be stopped," Mr Hosabale said addressing a press conference at the end of the three-day All India Coordination Committee meeting in Rajasthan's Pushkar.

Talking about the National Register of Citizens (NRC) issue in Assam, Mr Hosabale said that more work needs to be done on the topic by the Center to single out every illegal immigrant residing in the nation.

"Assam conducted NRC under a fixed time as guided by the Supreme Court. NRC is a complex issue, the survey needs time. We also want the process to be quick but we feel there are many people of Bangladeshi origin who have documents from India. It was a newly elected government which was entrusted with a difficult task there," Mr Hosabale said.

"NRC report is not the final rule, the government will need to figure out what more steps need to be taken to find out the inefficiencies in it. There might be some shortcomings which people are speaking against but we welcome the step," he added.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and heads of over 35 organisations affiliated to the RSS attended the three-day All India Coordination Committee meeting held between September 7 to 9 in Pushkar.

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Other topics discussed included during the meeting included repeal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.






RSS supports reservation, Sangh issues clarification on Mohan Bhagwat's remark
Issuing a clarification on Monday, RSS spokesperson Arun Kumar said that there were "attempts to create an unnecessary controversy over a part of Mohan Bhagwat ji's speech".
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has issued a clarification on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's call for dialogue on the reservation as the statement created an uproar.

On Sunday, Mohan Bhagwat had said that there should be conversation in harmonious atmosphere between those in favour of reservation and those against it.

"Those who favour reservation should speak keeping in mind the interests of those who are against it, and similarly those who oppose it should do the vice-versa," he had said.

The statement had erupted a controversy with Congress claiming that it exposed the "anti Dalit-backward face" of the RSS and the BJP.

"The anti Dalit-backward face of the RSS-BJP has been exposed. The conspiracy to end reservation for the poor and the policy of changing the Constitution have been uncovered," Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said in a series of tweets in Hindi.

Issuing a clarification on Monday, RSS spokesperson Arun Kumar said that there were "attempts to create an unnecessary controversy over a part of Mohan Bhagwat ji's speech".

"He called for a discussion on sensitive topics like reservation in a harmonious atmosphere. As far as RSS's view on reservation goes, that has been made clear several times that the Sangh supports reservation to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs and economically-backward people," the statement said.


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Speaking at an event at IGNOU in New Delhi on Sunday, Bhagwat said that the RSS, the BJP and the party-led government were three different entities and one cannot be held responsible for actions of another.

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Talking about the perception of Sangh's influence over the Narendra Modi dispensation, Bhagwat said, "Since there are Sangh workers in BJP and this government, they will listen to RSS, but it is not mandatory for them to agree with us. They can disagree as well."

Since the BJP is in government, it has to look at the bigger picture and can disagree with the RSS point of view, he said, adding that once a party comes to power, for it the government and national interest become a priority.

Earlier, the RSS chief had advocated for a review of the reservation policy, drawing sharp reactions from many parties and caste groups.