On the directives of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Ms. Mayawati, the Additional
Cabinet Secretary Mr. Vijay Shankar Pandey and Principal Secretary Home Mr. Kunwar
Fateh Bahadur visited Allahabad district today and directed the officers to bring
constructive change in their functioning and work in an impartial manner. They said that
the officers were public servants and they should respect the people. The Additional
Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary Home were reviewing the law and order and
progress of development works of the district at the Allahabad Collectorate Auditorium
today.

Both the senior officers directed the police officers to register every F.I.R. and
ensure immediate action on it. They also directed the district officers to create such
atmosphere at the thanas where people could make complaints directly without any fear
sans the interference of a middleman. They said that the innocent people should not be
implicated in the false cases. The morale of the criminals soared when wrong witnesses
were presented in the Courts and they escaped trial easily, the senior officers pointed
out.

Both the senior officers directed the S.D.Ms. that they should inspect all the
thanas falling within their areas regularly and forward a report to the D.M. They also
directed the police officers to visit villages and interior areas.

The Additional Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary Home, while reviewing
the progress of development works, directed all the district level officers to ensure that
the benefit of the schemes was delivered to the needy. They also directed that the
B.D.O. and other district level officers should visit rural areas and ensure that the
eligible persons were selected for the schemes in a transparent manner. Directing the
departments like — Education, Health, Rural and Urban Development and P.W.D. to
improve their work system, they said that the 70 per cent of the budget was spent by
these departments. Therefore, they should remain very cautious. They directed the
officers to adhere to the office presence between 10 a.m. to 12 noon in their respective
offices and listen to the woes of the people and dispose of their problems in an effective
and qualitative manner.

The Additional Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary Home inspected the
development works being carried out at the Ambedkar village Andawan under the
Bahadurpur development block of the district. They inspected the progress of Indira
Awas, kharanja, drains, latrines, C.C. roads and underground drains. They also held
Chaupal at the campus of the primary school of the village and verified the beneficiaries
of various schemes. They directed the C.D.O. to verify the BPL, Antyodya and A.P.L.
ration card holders and cancel those cards, which were found ineligible. Likewise, they
also directed to verify beneficiaries of pension schemes. Both the officers also inspected
Jhusi police station and inspected the records of the police station.

The Additional Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary Home said that the
Government intends to provide justice to every affected person and the Tehsil and
Thana Diwas were being organised with this purpose only.

Both the senior officers directed the S.D.Ms. that they should inspect all the
thanas falling within their areas regularly and forward a report to the D.M. They directed
the police officers to visit villages and interior areas as well and asked them to ensure
that the harassment of women did not take place at any level and their complaints were
attended on priority basis.

The Additional Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary Home, while reviewing
the progress of development works, directed all the district level officers to ensure that
the benefit of the schemes was delivered to the needy. They also emphasised the need
to maintain transparency in the selection of beneficiaries. They directed the officers to
adhere to the office presence between 10 a.m. to 12 noon in their respective offices and
listen to the woes of the people and dispose of their problems in an effective and
qualitative manner. They said that the employees posted in the rural areas should night
stay in their place of posting. They directed the departmental officers to visit rural areas
to verify the schemes and ensure timely completion of development works according to
the norms. They further directed the officers to make payment of labour charges under
NREGA scheme through banks or post offices only.

The Additional Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary Home inspected the
development works being carried out at the Ambedkar village Mehrampur under Khekra
Tehsil of the district. Both the officers went around the village and assessed the various
development works, besides holding Chaupal at primary school to verify the
beneficiaries of various schemes. They ordered the district officers to get the boundary
wall of the village pond constructed through NREGA scheme and place the serial
numbers on the clean latrines constructed in the village. Both the officers also interacted
with the beneficiaries of the Mahamaya Awas Yojna and Janani Suraksha Yojna and
directed the chief medical officer (CMO) to ensure wide publicity of Janani Suraksha
Yojna. They also inspected Khekra police station and directed the SP to ensure quick
auction of vehicles parked in the police station premises.

master strategist himself KanshiRam was the most sought politician in
India even when he openly accused the two mainstream political parties,
the congress and BJP as Sapnath and Nagnath. His extraordinary
organizational capabilities and one man command safeguarded the party
from internal splits and also insulated it from outsider horse trading.
Still if somebody left the party his reaction was “Jis kisine BSP
chodin hain ya BSP ke sath Gaddari ki hain, usne kabhin dubara sansad
ya vidhansabha ka muh nahin dekha hain”.
 
While
Dr Ambedkar wrote ” Who were the shudras”, “What congress and Gandhi
have done to the untouchables” ” Annihilation of Castes” and volumes of
books, KanshiRam translated Ambedkarism into workable philosophy
through appropriate strategies and tactics and built the powerful ‘BSP’
the third largest national political party in India. If KanshiRam was
not born Ambedkarism would have been rotting in the Bookshelves of so
called Ambedkarite Literates, dalit poets, scholars and bunch of high
class babus who after taking the benefit of reservation given by
Ambedkar feel shy of even disclosing their identity of being a
scheduled caste. While the Ambedkarites in Maharashtra stored, read and
wrote tonnes of books on Ambedkar, KanshiRam effectively spread the
idea of Ambedkarism throughout India.
 
KanshiRam
Said “I will not merely sit quite in anticipation that some day or the
other caste will be annihilated automatically; but as long as the
“caste” is alive, I will continue to use it in the interest of my
society”. He successfully used the caste weapon earlier used by upper
castes in favour of oppressed castes. His idea behind the formation is
ample clear from his observation” What is more important? To become
MLA/MP or to run the   movement of Babasaheb? According to me it was
more important to run the movement of Babasaheb than to become MLA/MP.
Therefore I chose to run the movement. For a moment a thought came to
my mind that to run the movement effectively we should make our people
MLAs/MPs. But the important question was which is the party that will
give us MLAs/MPs who will also run the movement of Babasahab. After a
lot of thought I reached to a conclusion that such MLAs/MPs can be
elected only through our own party.”
 
The Maharashtrian Ambedkarites:
                                                                  
While the people in Maharashtra fought around 25 years to rename a
university in Dr Ambedkar’s Name, the BSP By capturing the power in UP
has formed not just one university but many universities for which the
people from Maharashtra have been fighting for long time like  Shahu
Maharaj university at Kanpur, In 1996 Mahatma Phule university and Dr
Babasaheb Ambedkar university. Apart from this it acquired   200 acre
land at Noida for Gautam Buddha Univesity. It created 17 new districts
to fasten the process of development and more importantly to honour our
heroes by giving their names to these newly formed districts.
He
said “I have learned a lot from the people from Maharashtra. I have
learned a half lesson for running the Ambedkari  movement from Dr
Babasaheb Ambedkar. The other half lesson I have learnt from the Mahars
of Maharashtra. I have learnt from Babasahab how to run the movement.
And from Mahars of Maharashtra I have learned how not to run the
movement. To successfully run any movement it is not only sufficient to
know how to run the movement but also it is necessary to know how not
to run the movement. If you do not know how not to run the movement
then you will never be able to know how to run it”.
He
said “Now I consider it my responsibility to empower my people so that
they will not ask for reservations but they will become capable to give
reservations to others. It is easy to understand and say this thing but
it is not easy to make it happen.   Who is capable of giving
reservations? Only the ruling class of people can give reservations to
others. Even to enable your own society capable of reaping the benefits
and to protect their interests, you have to become a ruling class.
Therefore we have to prepare ourselves in the direction of becoming a
ruling class in India. We have to become the rulers. It is the solution
on most of our problems”.
Today the UP government of BSP is
capable of giving reservations not only to scheduled castes but also to
economically weaker upper castes thereby completely shutting up the
mouths of those talking about economic criteria etc against
reservation.
 
The
Historic “The new Reservation initiatives” and Public Private
Partnership in which UP government is the first in India to implement
reservation in private sector.
A full page Advertisement in all
newspapers was enough to send strong signals to the industry and centre
that the day is not far when everybody has to follow it. Also when
psu’s can be privatized it can also happen vice-versa when BSP comes to
power at centre. While the RPI has been demanding reservation in
private sector since 1974 with no cognizance being given to its demand
and ironically more and more public sector undertakings being
privatized, it continued to share power with congress.
This write
up shall be too long to cover all the extraordinary measures taken by
Mayawati in the short span of 10 months. Those ill informed
Ambedkarites accusing her of sacrificing the interests of Scheduled
castes should carefully see the historic decision of creating 1 lakh
jobs for Valmiky Community in each village. A bold decision to refuse
Reliance Retail’s  outlets in UP which no other state government could
afford to take is a strong signal to capitalists that nothing can be
allowed which leads to poor becoming more poor and rich becoming more
wealthier.
 While
in the 1972 Loksabha elections RPI leader Shri Dadasaheb Gaikawad had a
meeting with Mohan Dharia of Congress at Pune for a seat sharing
agreement. The outcome of the meeting was 425:1 i.e. 425 Congress and
RPI-1 “YUTI JHALI”. Today BSP has the power to dictate its terms be it
for any cause and even the first woman president of India could not
have been selected without the support of BSP. Today there is a beeline
of candidates from all castes, religions, sects for BSP tickets and the
presence of its cadres and supporters can be seen right from Kashmir to
Kanyakumari.
 
 
 
The Iron Lady:
                           
The BSP and Movement started by KanshiRam has given to the untouchables
‘Mayawati’ the iron lady, the fourth time CM of India’s most populace
State, the title of most Powerful political leader of the times much
ahead of Sonia Gandhi, L.K.Advani, Vajpaye, Bal Thackrey etc etc. The
full majority government of BSP in UP today has become a model of good
governance and effective leadership working for ‘Sarvajan Hitay and
Sarvajan Sukhay”
One has to salute the BSP leadership for its
meticulous mobilization of different castes and religious groups. That
is why 64 Dalits, 54 OBCs, 29 Muslims, 21 Brahmins, 18 Thakurs, even
few Vaishyas have won from BSP ticket. We should be proud of the fact
that we are witness to a historical process in which a political party
led and dominated by the Dalits has come to power on in its own,
without the support of a mainstream party. With complete media, the
Superstars, the capitalists, the industrialists on one side and single
lady with organization and leadership skills on other side, Mayawati
shocked everyone when results of 2007 elections were declared. While
other parties had booklets of Manifesto’s running into pages, BSP had
no Manifesto.
Her
firm belief is that a “Samta-Mulak Samaj” (a society based on equality
– politically, socially, and economically) can be established when
there will be “proportionate empowerment. ”
International Magazine
from US ‘NewsWeek’ ranked Mayawati  among top eight women leaders
worldwide who have reached the top despite all odds. A national daily
in India recently placed  Mayawati as the most powerful politician in
India much above Advani and Sonia Gandhi and as everyone knows none of
the newspaper is controlled by BSP nor any it has control over any TV
channel. The BSP is always media averse. Yet there are TV channels,
newspapers surveys ranking her as No-1 or so with many even projecting
her as Prime Minister of India. Even the International Media has taken
the cognizance of the growing power of a lady from an Untouchable
caste.
The Critics:
                      
KanshiRam himself never bothered about his critics and as a matter of
fact,all political parties essentially did the same but they feigned
decency and decorum. What they did surreptitiously, KanshiRam did
openly and thus exposed the prevailing double standards in politics. It
is interesting to note the people who accused him of political
opportunism and unreliability repeatedly sought alliances with him even
after his alleged misdemeanor. Those accusing Mayawati of forging an
alliance with Brahmins need to revisit the blueprint of RPI which
Babasaheb himself prepared, the number of Brahmin leaders he worked
with and those who showed willingness to join his political party.
“According
to the constitution of RPI the party was not tied to any particular
dogma or ideology such as communism or socialism, Gandhism or any other
ism. The party was prepared to adopt any plan of social and economic
betterment of the people irrespective of its origin and provided it is
consistent with its principles. Its outlook is not purely rational and
modern but also empiricist and academic”. Moreover one can very well
see that it is not the dalits in UP who were touching the feet of
Brahmins, it were the Brahmin MLA’s and leaders who are in a race and
queuing up  to touch the feet of Iron Lady.
 
 
The Leaders from other Parties:

                                                               
While the Congress has the largest number of Scheduled Caste leaders at
present right from daughter of Jagjivan Ram miss Meira Kumar, Mata
Prasad, Sushil Kumar Shinde etc, there is Ramvilas Paswan who is always
with any ruling party provided he is made a minister, Bangaroo Laxman
in BJP etc.  None of these leaders have been honest enough to address
the problems faced by untouchables.
 
 The grand historic rally
of Mayawati at Shivajipark, Dadar has certainly sent shockwaves across
the untouchable agents of congress who still continue to use
Ambedkarite movement as their source of livelihood.
 
 The Maharashtrian
Ambedkarites wanted the Sun to rise; there is no doubt about that, but
they wished that the Sun should rise after hearing the sound of their
cock. As the Sun rose in Uttar Pradesh, without hearing the voice of
cock from Maharashtra, the people from Maharashtra pretended that there
is no sunrise.
 
The organisations like “BAMCEF” started by
KanshiRam have also split into various groups. While there seems to be
no reason for BAMCEF to be headed by different leaders to exist when
the original one is still giving direct results. Here again come into
picture the Maharashtrian Ambedkarites who also happen to head the two
main factions of BAMCEF. While one faction organized the statewise
conference in Maharashtra with a topic dedicated to challenge the BSP’s
strategy of forming an alliance with Brahmins the other aims at
creating a pressure group or force which shall come on streets. The
former faced the wrath of a dynamic dalit Beauracrat in Mumbai who
termed them as “Intellectually Bankrupt”. Confusing the already
confused minds? Those questioning Mayawati arrange conferences with
topics as “Belagam hoti Nyayapalika ko Lagam Kaise Lagayi Jain?  Don’t
they know that it is the Parliament and the elected representatives who
can stop the judicial activism?
 
 With
every TOM DICK AND HARRY questioning Mayawati, the grassroot BSP and
BAMCEF cadres of KanshiRam and Mayawati are busy preparing for
Mission-2009 when they wish to see Mayawati as the first Dalit Prime
Minister of world’s largest democracy.
 
One thing is sure that
the BSP, KanshiRam and Mayawati  have raised a ray of hope in millions
of suppressed and marginalized sections of the society that there is at
least one party which can make a difference in their lives. Whether the
formula used by BSP is called “Social Engineering or Social
Transformation” , whether the critics call it caste politics which each
and every political party does in India, the dalits in India cannot
afford to miss this historical opportunity. As a journalist from south
rightly pointed “The question is not what Mayawati can do for dalits,
but what  dalits can do for themselves when she is around”.
 
 
 
Jaibhim and Regards
Abhay Madhukar Dongre.
 
References:
Some information has been taken in verbatim from the articles of the following.
I express my acknowledgement to them.
 
1) KanshiRamji’ s Historic Qulalumpur speech.
2) On the Threshold of Social Democracy-Kumari Mayawati.
3) Mayawati’s Social Engineering or Social Transformation- Dr K.Jamnadas.
4) BSP’s Victory is Democratic Win-Prof Dr Vivek Kumar, JNU.
5) An Enigma Called KanshiRam- Dr Anand Teltumbde.
6) A Mayawi Revolution-Dr Anand Teltumbde.
7) On
Judging Mayawati- ChittiBabu Padavala.
8) Kanshi Ram Expertise in using Caste Weapon