The Awakened One
–BABU KANSHI RAM JI–
INSTEAD OF BEING RULED LET US BE RULERS
Kanshi Ram Tells Original Inhabitants of The Great Prabuddha Bharath
SPECIAL SPEACH DELIVERD BY MR. KANSHI RAM Ji
AT 1ST WORLD ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH CONFERENCE IN MALAYSIA ON 10TH & 11TH OCTOBER,1998
become rulers instead of being ruled. We must not be always at the
receiving end, instead become the givers, ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE
GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH Leader Mr. Kanshi Ram told the world ORIGINAL
INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH
It’s long we have been ruled. It is long we have been taking. Now it is
time we change the destiny to rule and give, he said. Mr. Kanshi Ram
who is the Founder Prisident of Bahujan Samaj Party delivered a key-note
address at the opening of the 1st World ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE
GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH Convention ‘A new vision towards a casteless
society’ at the Kuala Lampur Mines Resort City.
two day convention held on 10th and 11th October 1998 was well attended
by more than 700 delegates throughout the world including famous
politicians noted leaders from dalit movement, champions of
down-trodden, social reformers, renowned economists, famous
educationists and great scholars.
Malaysian Manister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Datuk Sabbaruddin Chik
officialy opened the conference which saw the opening very colourful
with Malaysian cultural and traditional dances performed by Indians,
Malays and Chinese.Mr. Kanshi Ram garlanded the Portrait of Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar while ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH Sena President Ram Vilas Paswan garlanded the portrait of the great Periar.
Kanshi Ram in his speech continued to trace the history of caste and
Braminical social order. He asserted by virtue of his vast experience
that elimination of caste was impossible at this stage. He also
elaborated the very purpose of creating caste.In context of caste
oppression and justice Mr. Kanshi Ram refered the role of Dr. Ambedkar.
He commended the merit of ‘Communial Award’ which he achieved after a
long struggle.
Ambedkar could not sustain the going due to the constant pressure of
the mighty upper caste Hindus, Mr. Kanshi Ram told the delegates who
packed the hall.’Babasaheb Ambedkar was able to get reservation for the
oppressed in legislative houses, job opportunities in government
departments and also places in higher educational insitutions.
wish to stress upon that reservation is not the soultion to oour
problem. We must become rulers instead of being ruled, givers instead of
being takers, Mr. Kanshi Ram told the crowd to a thunderous applause.It
is my duty to prepare my people not to get reservation but to grant
reservation. Who can granreservation? Only rulers can grant reservation.
Hence, I will prepare my people to become rulers.If we do not become
rulers, our problems will remain forever, Kanshi Ram said.
order to become rulers we must learn how to handle caste. Dr. Ambedkar,
Nehru, Gandhi and Indra Gandhi were experts in handling caste. Nehru
handled caste so well that he made Dr. Ambedkar helpless and retain the
Brahminical Social Order. Indra Gandhi also handled caste well to
benefit the Brahminical Social Order.Dr. Ambedkar prepared the SC/ST to
handle Caste. That is how we could get many benefits from the British,
he added.
Kanshi Ram expressed concern for 10 crores slum dwellers who are
deprived of proper drinking water and electric supply.People migrating
from villages to cities are also being denied of many facilities and end
up in polluting the enviornment.But those refugees who came from
Pakistan after independence were duly taken care of by the then
government and a special budget was allocated to meet their basic
necessities, he pointed out to the delegates.
to Mr.Kanshi Ram ,slum dewellers presently living in urban areas are
the Dalit refugees who have migrated from the villages because of
acrimonys & atrocities committed by upper case Hindus.They have not
been able to influence the Planning Commission and the Government of
India to allocate separate budget to provide them bread, clothes and
shelter.
decent life is a matter of fundamental right of every citizen in
accordance with the constitutional mandate, Mr. Kanshi Ram asserted.He
advocated separate settlement for dalit people as once formulated by
Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar.He was very critical of the evil impact of
caste-system in India.
the Indians went they never failed to carry with them this spreading
disease he told the lauging and cheering crowd.The Indians are prepared
to leave anythign behind. They leave behind their little property, small
land and their huts.But they will never leave behind their caste. They
carry with them wherever they go, he said.While urgimg the dalits to
unite he also called upon the Dalit intellectuals to shed away the
approach of existing analysis only.
should instead come with forward-looking approach in education,
economic and social problems.They must also come up with some sort of
effective solution programme, Mr. Kanshi Ram added.Mr. Kanshi Ram
impressed upon the delegates that Dalit problem can only be solved
through political power to rule the country.‘We must become the rulers instead of being ruled,’he told the cheering and applauding delegates.
MAYAWATI AND THE SECOND SOCIO-CULTURAL
REVOLUTION IN UTTAR PARDESH
RONKI RAM (DR.)
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PANJAB UNIVERSITY CHANDIGARH (INDIA)
ronkiram@yahoo.co.in
Mayawati,
the BSP supremo, sworn in as 40th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on
May 13, 2007. This is the second socio-cultural revolution in the
history of Uttar Pradesh where during the medieval Bhakti movement Guru
Ravi Dass, an untouchable poet-saint of very high repute, convinced the
Brahmins that it was not caste but ones deeds which are important.
Brahmins and Rajput Kings prostrated before him and Ranis and Maharanis
of the then rulers and the rulers themselves became his followers. It
seems that history was repeating itself when Brahmins and Thakurs among
others were touching the feet of BSP supremo Mayawati during the
swearing-in ceremony of the new cabinet at Lucknow. Once again Mayawati
has proved that hollow prestige based on birth when put on trial in the
democratic court of social justice failed to stand any more. But proving
that is much easier said than done.
Guru
Ravi Dass fought a relentless battle against his tormentors who were
adopting all fair and foul tactics to prevent him from entering into the
mainstream of the social space. He unleashed a frontal
attack on the long tradition of social oppression and untouchability. He
took the battle right into the capital of the Brahmanical Social Order
(BSO) and lay bare its fraudulent social structure. He employed Bhakti (loving devotion) as a method of protest against social exclusion. In his Bhakti
he laid emphasis on compassion for all and absolute faith in God. His
method was very daring and noble. He choose to challenge his tormentors
by adopting the iconography of their dress code as a symbol of revolt
which was not only highly objectionable but was equally deadly for a Shudra
of his times. He rejected all forms of religious rituals and sectarian
formalities. He challenged the tyranny of Brahmins and defied them by
wearing Dhoti (cloth wrapped around the waist), Janeue (sacred thread) and Tilak
(sacred red mark on forehead) that were forbidden for the untouchables.
Though he attired himself like an upper caste, he did not hide his
caste. He continued with his hereditary occupation of making/mending
shoes. While adopting the prohibited dress and symbols of the upper
castes, and at the same time sticking to his hereditary occupation he,
probably, tried to show how lower castes could achieve their human
rights without compromising with their separate ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH identity. His Bhakti
method of social protest reflected the democratic and egalitarian
traits of his social philosophy. When challenged in their own estate and
even in their own fiefdom of Bhakti, Brahmins had no option but to participate in a debate on the shastras thrown open by the Kashi Naresh
(King). As Chandrabhan Prasad argues, “Ravidas’s genius found no match.
The pandits turned pale, bending before the saint in recognition of his
greatness. The saint rode the royal chariot through the lanes of Kashi,
the King standing by his side. That was the Dalits’ first war of
independence. Kashi was secured. The cow belt Brahmins never recovered
from the shock, and were forced to reconcile to the Dalits’ cerebral
superiority”.
History
was repeated on May 13, 2007. The place was Lucknow, the current
capital of power in UP. And the star of the battle was Mayawati. To be
more precise this time the battle was not around the shastras but
about the numbers in the game of electoral politics. To win in such a
fierce modern battle is to prove ones metal. And more so when you have
been fighting while sharing the chariot with the ones who were very
recently sitting in your opposite camp. Mayawati did very well. She
proved her metal and turned victorious. She has reinforced the ‘cerebral
superiority’ of the ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH
once again. It is in this context that her grand success in the
recently concluded assembly election in Uttar Pradesh can be considered
as the second socio-cultural revolution in the heartland of the
varnashram order. Mayawati has provided a single-party government after
more than 16 years breaking the whirlpool of coalition politics in UP.
In fact, Mayawati put an end to coalition politics and ushered into an
era of “ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH -Brahmin-Muslim-Thakur-Vaishya-Bhumihar-OBCs”
sarvjan combined rule. This new form of “combined rule of sarvjan”
under the leadership of the ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH is
certainly an advancement not only over the tight rope walk of the
coalition system that India has been experiencing for the last many
years, but also a new beginning of the coming of the marginalized into
the center stage of power politics.
Mayawati’s ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PRABUDDHA BHARATH -Brahmin
thesis and her emphasis on “sarv samaj” coupled with the social
engineering formula would facilitate in laying down parameters for the
mitigation of the gap between what Baba Sahib Dr. Ambedkar said
“political equality and social and economic inequality” in India. In
other words, this new system of ‘sarvjan combined rule’
would certainly help in deepening of the roots of democracy in India and
inculcating positive feelings among the downtrodden that they too
matter in this land where they were for centuries kept socially
excluded, politically marginalized and economically deprived. Now they
feel encouraged to come forward not to plead or ask for favors because
they were neglected but because they are able to provide leadership to
safely steer the ship to its destination. It was vividly clear from the
oath taking ceremony dais where Smt. Mayawati was occupying the front
seat followed by Pandit S.C. Mishra, general secretary of BSP. Is it not
really a revolution in Brahmin dominated social set-up in India where
they have agreed to not only sit behind Dalits but also to touch their
feet? Imagine this even a few years before! Mayawati is absolutely right
when she said that behind her great victory lays the philosophy of
Phule, Naryana Guru, Periyar, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, and Babu Kanshi Ram.
In fact, it is she who tried to put this philosophy into action and
translated it into reality.
Whether the Savarnas
were falling at the feet of Mayawati out of gratitude or of political
expediency is not the point. The real point is that by putting the
Brahmins and Thakurs in line and commanding respect, Mayawati has been
able to evaporate the Laxman Rekha of Varnashramdharma. She has set the ball of self-respect and dignity of the so-called Avarnas rolling. She has brought the Savarnas and Avarnas
on a single platform, of course, led by her. What is even more
important is that she achieved all this through democratic way without
firing a single shot. And people of all sorts (read castes) stood by her
in her battle against social repression and jungle rule. In fact, this
is not in any case less than a social revolution. This revolution needs
to be replicated in other parts of the country too, if India really
wants to shine as a world power in near future. If India wants to march
ahead, social exclusion has to be ended first. Untouchability is not a
problem of the Shudras only; it is a number one problem of the entire
Indian society. It needs to be tackle immediately. Baba Sahib Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
sounded a grave warning on November 25, 1949 in the Constituent
Assembly on the completion of the Draft Constitution: “On the 26th
January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In
politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will
have inequality… We must remove this contradiction at the earliest
possible moment or else those who suffer inequality will blow up the
structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so labouriously
built up”. Mayawati has fired the first shot. The struggle has to
continue.
Posted on May 15th, 2007
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BSP Supremo Mayawati sworn in as 40th Chief Minister
CHIEF MINISTER OF UTTAR PARDESH
On
May 13, 2007 BSP supremo Mayawati sworn in as 40th Chief Minister of
the State (UP) that is going to play a decisive role in the forth coming
presidential election. She has privided a single-party government after
more than 16 years breaking the whirlpool of coalition politics in UP.
In fact, Mayawati put an end to coalition politics and ushered into an
era of “Dalit-Brahmin-Muslim-Thakur-Vaishya-Bhumihar-OBCs” sarvjan
combined rule. This new form of “combined rule of sarvjan” under the
leadership of the Dalits is cetrtainly an advancement not only over the
tight rope walk of the coalition system India has been experencing for
the last many years, but also a new begining of the coming of the
marginalized into the centre stage of power politics. Mayawati’s
Dalit-Brahmin thesis and her emphasis on “sarv samaj” combined with the
social engineering formula would facilate in layingdown parameters for
the mitigation of gap between what Baba Sahib Dr. Ambedkar said
“political equality and social and economic inequality” in India. In
other words, this new system of combined rule would certainly help in
deepening of the roots of democracy in India and inculcatinig positive
feelings among the downtrodden that they too matter in this land where
they were for centuries kept socially excluded, politically marginalized
and economically deprived. Now they feel incouraged to come forward not
to plead or ask for favours because they were neglected but because
they are able to provide leadership to safely steer the ship to its
destination. It was vivdly clear from the oath taking ceremony dias
where Smt. Mayawati was occupaying the front seat followed by Pandit
S.C.Mishra, general secretary of BSP. Is it not really a revolution in
Brahmin dominated social set-up in India where they have agreed to not
only sit behind Dalits but also to touch their feet! Imagine this even a
few years before! Here Mayawati is absolutely right when she said that
behind all this the philosophy of Phule, Naryana Guru, Periyar, Dr.
Ambedkar, and Babu Kanshi Ram has been playing the determinant role. And
it is she who has put it into action and translated it into reality.
In her 49-member Ministry 19 Ministers are of cabinet rank, 21
ministers of state (independent charge)and 9 ministers of state. The
caste composition of her cabinet is: three Brahmins, one Muslim, one
Thakur, one Bhumihar, one Vaishya, four Scheduled Casdtes and eighy
OBCs.Cabinet ministers are: Naseeruddin Siddiqui, Ramveer Upadhyaya,
Inderajit Saroj, Lalji Verma, Thakur Jaiveer Singh, Sukhdev Rajbhar,
Swami Prasad Maurya, Ved Ram Bhati, Laxmi Narain, Rakesh Dhar Tripathi,
Babu Singh Kushwaha, Jai Narain Rai, Phagu Chauhan, Nakul Dubey, Daddoo
Prasad, Narain Singh, Sudhir Goel, Ram Prasad Chaudhary and Dharam Singh
Saini.
We all wish her success in her endeavours,
Ronki Ram (Dr.)
Panjab University, Chandigarh (India), Cell:+91 987 286 1290
Poted on May 13, 2007
RESURGENCE OF ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF PRABUDDHA BHARATH:
DELHI IS NOT FAR
Dear All,
Jai Bheem!
Congratulations
The
victory of the BSP in UP has shown the way to power to those who were
being denied for centuries. Power game has its own grammer. It seems the
followers of Babu Kanshi Ram are now not too late to master it. BSP
supremo, Mayawati has proved it. She has meticulously worked out the
dynamics of number game. She has not only convinced her own people that
united they win and divided they loose, but has also established her
credentials among the dwijas who uptill very recently were opposed tooth
and nail to the coming of Dalits in to the public sphere. What is even
more important is that the people of UP are convinced that if any
political party can provide them relief from the mounting atrocities of
the erswhile establishment it is the BSP under the strong leadership of
the Madam Mayawati. They reposed confidence in her leadership and
brought her into power to bring rule of law as well as justice in the
beleaguered state of UP. Many are keeping the fingers crossed as to how
Madam Mayawati would be able to make a balance between the Dalit
emancipatory agenda of the BSP and the political expedency of her power
politics. It seems, given her acumen and dexterity in politics, she
would be able to tell the world that Dalits are now come of age and that
Delhi is not too far from them.Once again Congrats to all of you.
Ronki Ram (Dr.),
Dept. of Political Science,Panjab University, Chandigarh, India Cell: +91 987 286 1290.
BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY IN UP
Dear All
Jai Bheem!
This is the
greatest achievement. I would like to thank everybody for this victory
in UP. I absolutely agree with V T Rajshekar, well said and want to add
that all dalits from all states of India should drop the divisions of
dalits and come to a main dalit party (i.e. BSP) especially in
Maharastra and some other states where many dalit factions and parties
exist. We should unite and learn lessons from the election result from
UP. Let’s forget our differences and join hand with BSP and integrate
all dalits of India. Also please check out my web page (http://www.satyaguru.org) when you get a chance.
Vivek Nirala
(http://www.satyaguru.org)
Posted on May 12, 2007
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Clearly
new social engineering of “serve jan” , in which new dalit -Brahamn
alliance,has a foothold in the political arena, eeds to be tested if
this is a merely a political phenomenon. Certainy ms. mayawati’s gamble
has payed her hefty divdidend.
History has told us that Brahamans are a cunning bunch, they use
needle to take another needle and one that is done, they throw both
nedle outside don’t bring them in the house.
I wish ms. mayawati and her Cabinet all the best and hope that law
and order must be their first agenda, because public has voted on this
very iissue and gave BSP a thumping mandate by giving BSP an absolute
majory.
All political pundits except CBP were prooven wrong..
On dalit issue if the cabinet can focus on Eduction and economic
empowerment ,that will be like a fresh breeze on a hot summer day like
these days.
Well done BSP, your social engineerng was a bold one in an unchartered territory and proven wrong skeptic like me.
Finally we can now boldly say that we do have a spokesman for dalits , with a powerful voicein Ms. Mayawati.
Posted on May 12, 2007
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GREAT VICTORY OF BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY
congratulations to Madam Mayawati Ji, the President of Bahujan Samaj
Party & her entire party members on their great victory in Uttar
Pardesh Assembly Election 2007. This victory of BSP is a great victory
of Bahujan Samaj of < ?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />India.The
credit for the success goes to Mayawati & her entire team, voters
& supporters.www.ambedkartimes.com forum once again puts on record
its heartiest congratulations & wishes
great success to the BSP Government in its various programme in the
state of Uttar Pardesh as well as in the whole country.
www.ambedkartimes.com
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Many-many
congratulations to Behan Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj party for
becoming victorious in the state Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2007.
We also congratulate her on becoming the 4th time Chief Minister of the
State Uttar Pradesh.We wish her great success & her BSP Government
in its various programmes in the state of Uttar Pardesh as well as in
the whole country.
WWW.AMBEDKARTIMES.COM
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MOHAN GILL
AMBEDKARITE, YUBA CITY, CALIFORNIA (USA)
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NARANDIR SINGH HIRA
SANGAMNER (MAHARASHTRA) INDIA
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NARENDER KAUR PANJABI
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (USA)
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TARSEM JALANDHARI
JOURNALIST, JALANDHAR CITY, (PANJAB) INDIA
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SUDARSHAN PARK,NEW DEHLI (INDIA)
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VILL. DHANAL KHURD P.O. PHOOL PUR, DISTT. JALANDHAR (PANJAB) INDIA
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JAGDISH KUMAR (TALWAN )
PRESIDENT, SHRI GURU RAVDASS DARBAR, BERGAMO (ITALY)
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PRESIDENT, SHRI GURU RAVIDASS SABHA BAY AREA ( CALIFORNIA )
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PRESIDENT, SHRI GURU RAVIDASS SABHA SELMA, CALIFORNIA (USA)
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PRESIDENT, SHRI GURU RAVIDASS SABHA FRESNO (c.v) CALIFORNIA (USA)
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CHAIRMAN, SHRI GURDASS RAM BHUTTA YADGARI CHERITABLE TRUST, GARHPADHANA NAWANSHAHR, PANJAB (INDIA)
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HISTORIC VICTORY
Heartily Congratulations to Sister Mayawati Ji.!!!
It
is unique and uncommon victory in Indian political democracy. It means
“the dream of Baba Sahib Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s comes true”. If the
majority of the Dalit had followed footsteps of Baba Sahib, then we
would have ruled on this country. I hope you will help the down trodden
people and help their change and their destiny. Once again many
congratulations & BSP’s workers, voters, supporters, & also out
of party, BSP’s well wishers.
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CONGRATULATIONS !!!
Many
Congratulations to Bahujan Samaj on the spectacular victory of Bahujan
Samaj Party in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections led by Bahen
Mayawati. This is the biggest victory of Ambedkar movement. Thanks to
all UP people for voting to BSP. This victory will lead Bahen
Mayawati’s Elephant, road to Delhi one day and fulfill the dream of Late Babu Kanshi Ram Ji.
Kamal Dev Paul
President, International Bahujan Organization (California)
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