It appears that not much has changed in terms of policies since the BJP/RSS government came to power before four years. It is a pure politics of keeping the hegemony of one class over another. The way Congress, under Rahul Gandhi, is veering towards Hindutva as is clear from the visits of Rahul Gandhi to the temples and denial of tickets to Muslims. The BJP/RSS Government is only repeating or rather strengthening the policy regime of the Congress: be it Aadhar or GST and many of the schemes that continue under different names.

Brahmin Pride in Opposing SC/ST/OBC Reservation

For Dalits, is Congress really better than BJP? When both parties have dominance of Brahmins and they come together to oppose reservation granted to SC/ST/OBCs, do you really think Congress is better for Dalits?

The BJP is a purely political entity that strives to safeguard to interests of its core constituency is clear from its politics in the North East. It has offered the people of Nagaland who are Christians a trip to Jerusalem to woo them to vote them for the BJP in the assembly elections. This was not enough that the so-called “nationalist” party allied with a “separatist” party in Tripura. What the RSS/BJP done in the largest state of North East, Assam is very evident when it started spreading the venom against the Muslims. Also in Arunachal and Manipur, it came to possess political power.

To the core, the RSS/BJP is a sectarian political entity which tries to keep the hegemony of the Brahmins-Banias alive, the hegemony that Congress strove hard to keep alive. In this political discourse, the voice of the majority is not only missing but now to a larger extent distorted with the “nationalist” agenda which is nothing but the cloak that the Brahminism has worn in this country.

It does not, therefore, matter who comes to power as they both flip the same proverbial coin which always throws the “chances” in favor of “unitary” power of the “Brahmins and Banias”.

Author – Mangesh Dahiwale, Human Rights Activist

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