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They were humiliated by government
enquiries as the guilty
were protected by BJP’s leadership.
Humiliation reached its
zenith when BJP leaders had food
with Dalits in their houses on
camera. The same symbolism
was depicted when BJP president
Amit Shah took samrasta snan
with Dalits in Madhya Pradesh.
These gestures are blatantly
humiliating. The so-called upper
castes are simply reminding
Dalits, ‘look you are so lowly
even when we are eating with
you or bathing with you’. The
question is why do you have to
remind Dalits again and again of
their structural location and prove
your hegemonic benevolence?
At another level, Dalits feel
humiliated and demoralised
when so-called Dalit leaders
belonging to the BJP and NDA,
like Ram Vilas Paswan, Thawar
Chand Gehlot, Ramdas Athavle
and Udit Raj, don’t speak a
world on these gross atrocities
on Dalits. In the same vein, the
BJP-led NDA government took
months to appoint a scheduled
caste commissioner under
Article 338 of the Indian constitution.
Even after the appointment
he remains silent. There is
never a BJP Dalit spokesperson
on TV to air the anguish of
Dalits. The prime minister’s
statement, ‘shoot me if you
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The Challenges Facing Ram Nath Kovind as
President Are Both Particular and National
want, but don’t target Dalits’,
does not ask for stern action
against the perpetrators of atrocities
on Dalits. The statement
depicts the prime minister’s
helplessness and lack of political
will, further demoralising Dalits,
especially Dalit youth.
Presidential opportunity :
The first particular challenge for
Kovind is to cushion the pain
and agony of Dalits, who have
been suffering for the past three
years. How will he restore the
lost pride of the Dalits?
Moreover, will he be able to succeed
in making reforms for their
effective representation in different
institutions of government if
he becomes president of India?
If he doesn’t succeed in doing
so, he will not be able to halt the
Dalits’ disenchantment with the
BJP. The precedent suggests that
chances of his success are very
bleak. I say this because it is not
the first time that a Dalit has
been fielded for the post of president
of India. In 1997, exactly
two decades earlier, K.R.
Narayanan was elected as the
first Dalit president. The
Congress had nominated
Narayanan to the post to counter
the ever-increasing influence of
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BSP, not only in UP, but all over
the country. However, the
Congress could not stop the rise
of the BSP in UP and it would
gradually go on to wipe out
Congress from UP. Whether the
BJP will meet the same fate,
only time will tell.
Constitutional values and
Dalit justice : Another challenge
for Kovind is to match the
political acumen, assertion and
independent nature of
Narayanan. We have to accept
the fact that Narayanan was one
of the most assertive presidents
of the country who upheld constitutional
values to the core. At
the outset, he was the first president
who exercised his franchise
by standing in a queue like an
ordinary citizen of the country.
This can be considered as a revolutionary
step in democratic
politics, because presidents
before him feared to be dubbed
as partisan.
He was also one of the few
presidents who faced politically
turbulent times under two different
regimes, National Front
(1997) and then BJP-led NDA
government (1998). Amidst the
chaos, he did not lose constitutional
ethos. With strong political
acumen, he upheld constitutional
value, twice asking the
government of the day to reconsider
its advice on the use of
Article 356.
First, in October 1997, he
asked National Front’s cabinet to
reconsider its decision to dismiss
the then Kalyan Singh-led BJP
government in UP, and forced
them to hail his effort as a ‘victory
of democracy’. Again in
October 1998, Narayanan
returned a Union cabinet resolution
seeking the imposition of
president’s rule in Bihar and the
suspension of the assembly.
It is a coincidence that the
outgoing president, Pranab
Mukherjee, accepted both recommendations
of presidential
rule (first in Arunachal Pradesh
and then in Uttarakhand) by the
present BJP government.
However, even the president’s
ascent could not withhold the
scrutiny of Supreme Court of
India. Can Kovind uphold constitutional
values in the way
Narayanan did? Can he raise the
voice of the Dalits, as Narayanan
did when he raised the issue of
under-representation of marginalised
sections in the Supreme
Court? It is on these particular
and national issues that Kovind’s
candidature will be tested by the
nation as a whole and by Dalits
in particular.