16-09-2022 The Asian Independent

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Inhuman act of violence against
Adivasis girl in Jharkhand is a
crime against HUMANITY
The story of the brutal torture of
#adivasi girl by the Jharkhand chief
of BJP’s #BetiBachaoBetiPadhao
Seema Patra, wife of a retired IAS
officer look unprecedented but definitely
reflective of how we treat the
#domesticworkers at our homes.
The fact is that most of the elite
class officers and India’s elite civil
servants keep them on lowly paid
jobs as domestics who are actually
compelled to do everything in hope
they will one day become ‘permanent’.
#Jharkhand, #Odisha and
#Chhattisgarh contribute to
#domestic sector in our major cities
apart from poor immigrants from
Bengal, actually, most of them for
the fear of any reaction, claim to be
from West Bengal in India.
Anyway, the #adivasi girls become
part of the network who supply
domestic workers to the homes of
the middle classes, who work in big
corporations or live abroad. The
stories of these scoundrels keeping
their domestic workers in their toilets
or with dogs are not new. The
maltreatment of the #adivasis clearly
shows the bully and exploitative
nature of India’s ‘growing’ middle
class which do not want to pay minimum
wages to their domestics and
exploit their vulnerabilities. Most of
these #bhakts will be in the forefront
of all the ‘nationalistic’ campaigns.
That is why, I say, Indians
have become experts in symbolism.
They don’t want their children to
join the army but would like to look
more #Deshbhakts than the fauzis
who are fighting at the border
because on TV the Bhakti comes
with a great premium. Similarly,
#swchchbharat campaign became a
hogwash as most of this corrupted
middle class or purely Sarvarna
castes never bothered about the
‘kooda wallah’ or sanitation workers
who come and clean their streets
or take their dirt daily. The campaign
became an event to get photographs
and send it to Modi ji so that
they look more obedient than others.
It is the same castes who came
forward
with
#BetiBachaoBetiPadhao campaign
and never treat their daughters or
others as equal.
Now after much effort Seema
Patra is arrested but will this case
become an example for others to
treat their domestic workers better.
Was the violence on #adivasi girl
merely a violence on #domestic
workers or was it a violence on
#adivasi girl that needed to be seriously
probed.
As reports are suggesting that
Seema Patra’s son Ayushman actually
contacted a friend against his
mothers misdeeds. Is it because
Ayushman would ask her to be
treated in a better way? How can a
mother be so brutal to forcibly send
her son to the hospital in the name
of psychological disorder ? It is
now reported that the son has now
been withdrawn from the hospital
Vidya Bhushan
Rawat
by his sister Vatsalya who took the
Adivasi girl to Delhi along with her
and when transferred back to
Ranchi , brought her along. It
means that both Seema Patra and
her daughter have been brutally
exploiting the adivasi girl for long.
We have seen the video which is
unbearable. It reflects how our caste
mind works. I have seen no campaign
by the Hindutva managers
against this. They only look for the
stories where a Muslim is involved
otherwise they are least bothered.
Hindutva is an echo system of
ignoring things when issues of caste
violence or attitude of the savarnas
towards Dalits and Adivasis comes
but they wait for the issue of any
involvement of Muslims and you
would find their noise at the rooftop
level. Right now they are silent
which is definitely criminal and
mischievous. . Not a single netas
have spoken but why will they
speak? Smriti Irani’s histrionics on
the issue of #rashtrapati by
Congress leader’s slip of tongue
was so ‘powerful’ that it looked like
drama but she has not spoken a single
sentence about garlanding the
criminals, rapists and murders of
the family of #BilkisBano. Smriti ji
spoke passionately about #adivasis
when spoke about the president of
India but now an Adivasi girl has
been brutalised by a BJP leader, the
Jharkhand chief of their Beti
Bachao Beti Padhao campaign, they
are silent. It also reflects how leaders
are appointed in the party. Why
should a brahmin from Odisha be
appointed leader of
#BetiBachaoBetiPadhao campaign
in Jharkhand. Are there no eligible
#adivasis from Jharkhand for this.
Will our Pradhan mantri ji speak
about the incident ? He has been
speaking about his #ManKiBaat but
in his 8 years so far he has not spoken
a word about any one who suffers
from such brutalities and caste
or communal violence.
#Jharkhand government must
take this issue to a logical conclusion.
Question is not whether she
will get the compensation or not but
the punishment to the culprit is
extremely important. All these
elites intoxicated of their power
must be made accountable for their
misdeeds. #SeemaPatra is the face
of the terror of a caste mind, who
are too arrogant about their caste
identities and they will resort to
inhuman brutalities if any one, particularly
Dalits or Adivasis try to
look equal to them.
#AnnihilationOfCaste is not possible
with those who believe in
#brahmanical supremacy. Every
day, we are being told about ‘great’
culture, values and civilisation but
all this #adivasi girl faced in
Jharkhand is reflection of those values
that have treated Dalits and
Adivasis in utter disdain and with
great humiliation. Can India’s parliament
take up the issue of Dalits
and Adivasis and offer an apology
for the historical wrongs. Will our
prime minister speak on the issue in
his #mankebat and tell the people
about no tolerance towards those
who humiliate fellow citizens of the
country merely on the basis of their
birth ? Will the PM speak about
untouchability and the caste system
? I hope he speaks and tells fellow
countrymen about the dangers of
such inhuman behaviour as
#AdivasiLivesMatter and as a citizen
of the country it is unexpectable
from any one to treat the fellow citizens
in such a cruel and brutal way.
Shame on Seema Patra. She must
face the law and any effort to protect
her must be exposed.
Ambedkar was a pioneer in
India’s skill development initiatives.
He was instrumental in setting
up the best Technical Training
Scheme for Workers in India. On
August 24, 1944 while in Calcutta
he said: “This is the age of the
Machine and it is only those countries
in which technical and scientific
training has risen to the highest
pitch that will survive in the
struggle…….The Technical
Training Scheme not only maintained
but extended all over the
country and became a permanent
part of the country’s educational
system”. The current draft New
Educational Policy also gives
thrust to vocational education.
Dr Ambedkar has shown his
brilliance by including Philosophy
of social justice and labor rights in
the Constitution. Dr Ambedkar
wanted the subject of labor to be in
the Union list as he stressed the
need for uniformity of labor laws.
But it could not be achieved.
A Strong Critic of
Communism
Dr Ambedkar was amazed by
the sight of equality between different
castes in an RSS camp in
Pune. On the other hand, he was a
staunch critic of Communism. He
said “I am the number one enemy
to both Communism and
Communists who exploited the
laborers for their political ends”.
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Dr Ambedkar- The Architect of India’s Labor Reforms
He said class conflict is the cause
of misery. He opposed Marxism
with Buddhist ideas. Dr Ambedkar
said human beings are not living
for bread alone; they have a heart.
He said hatred and struggle could
not be the basis of any change.
Thus, he opposed Marxism. The
Communist Party of India, becoming
angry with his sharp criticism
of Communism, declared that
Ambedkar is an enemy of laborers.
They attacked him as the ‘divider
of the working class’, ‘misleader
of Dalit masses’, ‘opponent of the
nationalist movement’ and a
‘stooge of imperialists’. CPI
founding member S.A. Dange
appealed to voters: “Spoil your
votes but don’t vote Dr
Ambedkar”. Later, as usual,
Communists took a U-turn and
claimed Ambedkar was a proponent
of class struggle. During his
last days, when both Congress and
Communists rejected Ambedkar
and opposed him, his solace was
RSS workers, which is described
in Dattopant Thengdiji’s book on
Dr Ambedkar. Thengdiji explains
the circumstances in which he
himself being an RSS pracharak
became the election agent of
Ambedkar in his last contesting of
the election.
Great Vision about Labor
He cautioned that without social
and economic freedom of all, there
will not be any meaning of political
freedom. Dr Ambedkar
declared: “Labor is not content
with securing merely fair conditions
of work. What labor wants is
fair conditions of life.” He criticized
those who use the word
“cheap labor” and pointed out that
it is a shame to the industry as
well: “It had been said that India’s
monopoly was based on cheap
labor. If this was true, it was not a
matter of complement either to the
industry or to labor.” This was an
answer to all those who at that time
propagated that industrial progress
at a cheap labor cost is the national
goal. It is relevant even today.
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