Concluding
the session Mr.Waman Meshram said that the brahmin-baniya press media always try
to highlight only those issues which are favorable to their society and always
hide all the issues which are in the interest of SC/ST/OBC and converted
minorities. People of India were thinking that after the Durban conference there
will be enough discussion in the media after the conference, whether it was a
success or a failure. but none of the toilet news paper tried to discuss on the
issue. When Atal Bihari attacked Pakistan and the battle which won was
highlighted and celebrated throughout India as operation "Vijay" The
entire press media was speaking in one voice that we had won the war. But I
would like to share one secret information. when I was in UK, I came to know
that there was one secret meeting between NRI's and Asst. Commissioner Mr.
Sanghvi, who was representing the
BJP govt. In that meeting he told two things. One was relating to putting a bill
in the parliament to give dual nationality to NRI's and the other was regarding
that they have defeated the dalits at Durban. Atal Bihari attacked
Pakistan and the won was highlighted as operation Vijay. But was it a real
Vijay? The enemy enters our camp (Land) and then we are removing them from our
house (Land). Is it the real success? On the other hand his representative goes
to U.K and propagate that we had defeated the dalits at Durban. My question is
why the brahmin-baniya Print media did not highlighted the issue of the defeat
of the dalits at the conference. If they could have done it or could have
highlighted the issue of defeat then all the indigenous could have stood up
against their defeat. The Indian Govt. didn't want to give any indication of
defeat inside INDIA and instead are propagating outside India.
Another
objective behind putting this topic for discussion was self critical analysis.
Now to discuss what can be the parameters for analysing the success or failure.
Simply we can target the objective and what we had received in turn. If our
objective was to include the caste problem in the UNO chart, then it is
uncompleted task. We wanted the discussion on the ground of caste
discrimination. But we will have to analyse the developments that had happened
before the conference. Before the Durban Conference one meeting was organised in
India and in this meeting Mr. Soli Sorbajee was the govt. representative. In
this meeting Soli Sorbajee stressed that if the caste word is removed from the
agenda and instead if the word work and decent is replaced then we will support
on the issue at Durban otherwise not. Because in the word work and decent the
word caste is already included, so
none should have any objection. So this was a part of conspiracy. To divide
our people Mr. Atal Bihari send Mr. Soli Sorbajee in the NGO meeting and
indirectly got our consent to remove caste word. This is very serious matter to
think. We could not have given consent to remove caste word and could have
insisted not to remove the caste word, then whether we could have achieved any
thing at Durban or not is different matter. If the caste word could have
highlighted at Durban then there was a little chance for brahmins to escape.
Caste is the weapon of Arya-Brahmins to make us slave and themselves the rulers.
In my opinion we could have insisted the word Brahmanism in place of caste.
Because caste is the outcome of Brahmanism. This is a political issue. There is
no solution to any problem without specific strategy. If we could not succeed in
present conference then we must highlight it in near future. This is not the
end, but the start. Many people who are not aware of Indian casteism will come
to know through discussions in future. But this was not our objective or goal.
So we got partial success by highlighting the issue at inter national level. Now
its responsibility of all the delegates who wanted to put their views at Durban
but could not succeed, they should highlight the issue at national level
at different places within India as well as abroad. Because if the United States
take another 10 years to organise such type of conference they we should not
keep mum for these years. We will have to go America, UK and organise
international conferences on caste discrimination. Also these conferences shall
discuss the untouchability problem. Untouchability is the outcome of caste
system. If we exclude the untouchability problem from caste problem then
probably there is a chance of consolidation of SC's only. But untouchability
problem is highlighted then St's will also come forward and join with us.
We shall use
only those words which are common to all categories SC/ST/OBC and minorities and
that's why we stress on mulnivasi word. Our aim is to establish national
movement in this country and we are marching towards it.
|