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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Test of democracy is king tolerates dissent, introspects: Nitin Gadkari
Pune, Sep 21: Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said the biggest test of democracy is that the ruler tolerates even the strongest opinion against him, and it leads to introspection.
Writers and intellectuals should express themselves fearlessly, the senior BJP leader said at a book release function held at MIT World Peace University here on Friday.
"The biggest test of democracy is that the king tolerates the strongest opinion against him and introspects over it," he said.
In India, there is no problem of difference of opinion but "there is a problem of lack of opinion," the Road Transport and Highways Minister said.
"We are neither rightist, nor leftist. We are opportunists. It is expected from writers and intellectuals that they express their opinions without any fear," he added.
Gadkari also said that as long as untouchability and notions of social inferiority and superiority persist, the work of nation-building can not be said to be complete.
