Country will have future only if it is freed from Modi: Prof Mahesh Chandra Guru
Mysuru, July 30: Progressive thinker Prof BP Mahesh Chandra Guru said that as the country would have future only if it was made Modi-free India, dalits, backward classes and minorities should come together to fight for it.
Presiding over a symposium on ‘Defeats-victories of social justice’ at the second death anniversary of Rakesh Siddaramaiah, organized at Manasagangotri Rani Bahadur Auditorium here on Monday, he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been looting the country. Every day he was going to one country and begging. Asking the countries to establish the industries to loot the country and give him something. Should the country need such a Prime Minister? The country could be made Modi-free only when the dalits, backward classes and minorities come together and fight to achieve this cause, he said.
Modi, Amith Shah, Sri Rama Sene and Sangh Parivar have been pushing the dalits and backward classes to slavery. Such organizations and persons should be taught a lesson, he said.
Right from the Brahmins to tribals, reservation should be implemented on caste basis to ensure social justice. Top positions of the country were in the hands of upper caste people. Interestingly, judiciary, universities, politics and higher positions in the administration were dominated by the Brahmins. The Brahmins who are just 3 per cent in the total population of the country, have got 90 per cent posts in judiciary. Then how would the people get social justice? It was because of the Brahmins, the country was lagging behind in development, he said.
The country was under the Brahmins clutches for many years and it was the time to remove it. It was inevitable to keep Brahmins away from power to protect the country, for which dalits, backward classes and minorities should come together. Due to lack of education, social awareness, organization, and intelligence, the backward class people were lagging behind in development. Though they have social concerns, the people did not understand this. Brahmins have taken this as an advantage and divided the society in the name of castes due to which they were enjoying the power, he said.
‘Siddaramaiah means development’
Two chief ministers from Mysuru region would remain in the memory of people for years. Former chief minister Devaraj Urs was the person responsible for transformation, while Siddaramaiah heralded the development of the state. Within few hours of taking over as the Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah had introduced Anna Bhagya scheme. He had given sufficient funds under SCP and TSP schemes for dalits welfare. If the dalit leader was the chief minister, he would not have given so much importance and funds to the welfare of dalits. The social justice should not have defeated. But Siddaramaiah was defeated in Chamundeshwari and it was the death of AHINDA(M.B.D), he analysed.
Senior journalist D Umapathi, progressive thinker Indudhara Honnapura, chief minister’s joint secretary (retired) M Ramaiah, former minister CH Vijayashankar, writer Kalegowda Nagavara, district Congress president Dr BJ Vijay Kumar and others were present.
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PM Modi, RSS strengthening wall in path of SCs, STs, OBCs: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.
