RSS Is Strongly Opposed To Adoption Of Caste Census At Nationwide Degree

By Arun Srivastava

RSS which claims to be the nation’s conscience keeper and beholder of the very best order of morality totally lacks ethical conviction to elucidate the explanations for its strident opposition to the caste census which principally goals at ascertaining the right socio-economic place and to mirror on inhabitants dimension of the OBCs, EBCs, Dalits and adivasis in fashionable India.

It’s certainly outrageous that RSS and BJP which benefitted most within the final two common elections of 2014 and 2019, from the assist of the OBC, EBC, dalits, Adivasis and different decrease caste teams have been dragging their ft on the difficulty of enumeration of their experiential power. RSS’s reluctance to face by these caste teams additionally underlines its worst sort of dualism. They’ve been constantly striving to incorporate them within the higher Hindutva household and even used them because the flag bearers of the “inclusive Hindutva”, however satirically are unwilling to facilitate them in getting their much-deserved share within the energy and choice making course of.

The political historical past of India makes it specific that the political institution and the political establishment which have been the unique area of the higher caste and feudal lords have been hostile to the backward caste individuals. They all the time handled them as their serfs. For the primary time they may realise their political relevance and collective power below the management of the socialists within the Sixties. The higher caste and feudal lords having fun with the patronage of the RSS, perpetrated worst type of repression on them. An perception into the character of the agrarian violence and clashes that shook the whole nation, particularly Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra within the second half of final century would expose the actual character of the RSS.

Solely just lately, exactly in 2018, some highly effective landlords, known as on a really senior journalist belonging to higher caste Bhumihar in Delhi for launch of some dreaded Ranabir Sena marauders who had been in jail and in addition to do some political foyer for the withdrawal of the circumstances towards them. The journalist has broad contacts and pals in political circle. Although he has a robust RSS background, he has been near political leaders of all hues.

For undertaking the duty of ushering India right into a Hindu Rashtra it’s crucial that RSS should attain numerical energy, at the very least the whole Hindu inhabitants, in order that it declare its stake. For this it’s important that the OBCs, EBCs, dalits and Adivasis are clubbed collectively as Hindus. This will even assist the RSS to castigate the stake of the Muslims and describe them as aliens. The RSS is for an enormous recreation. To attain the mission it has been beguiling the decrease caste individuals by projecting them as Hindus. The second the RSS makes use of the time period Hindu for them, the decrease caste individuals come to perception that they’re equal to the higher caste individuals. True sufficient RSS has been extending lip service to the decrease castes and dalits, however the actual fact stays that they all the time used these individuals to serve the curiosity of the higher castes and feudal lords. No honest effort was made by the RSS and BJP to democratise the powers and privileges of the higher castes and the feudal lords.

RSS and Modi authorities’s denial of the demand for a nationwide caste census is only primarily based on their apprehension that they’ll by no means succeed of their mission to show India right into a Hindu Rashtra, as they won’t succeed of their mission to mission Hindu inhabitants because the decisive issue. Their opposition to this demand is predicated on the worry that any such train would inflame caste-based social and political sentiments and hurt the Hindutva-nationalist mission.

The OBCs, EBCs and dalits are primarily engaged with the agrarian financial system or are depending on artisan, handicrafts or different guide labour providers. It was after inexperienced revolution their socio-economic situation improved and in some circumstances the Yadavs, Kories and Kurmis might purchase some land. Little question there have been OBC and EBC landowners because the pre-Independence days. However their quantity was fairly small.

It was within the caste census of 1931 that the inhabitants of the OBCs was final revealed, the place it was enumerated as 52% of the inhabitants. Since then, no authorities carried out any such train. Different marginalised social teams just like the Dalits and the Adivasis are enumerated within the census and the precise numbers of their presence in several areas, state establishments and academic our bodies is obtainable. However there isn’t a nationwide degree knowledge concerning the presence of the OBCs. In absence of a survey it isn’t sure whether or not their numerical power continues to be 52 per cent or has both elevated or decreased. In actual fact it’s within the curiosity of the backward castes that the survey ought to be achieved.

Considerably the Adivasis by no means handled themselves as Hindus and even didn’t establish with the OBCs or EBCs. They maintained their separate id of Sarna. In current instances, they’ve been urgent the federal government to establish Sarna because the image of Adivasi id. Intriguingly whereas the Modi authorities is out to disclaim them this standing, RSS is striving exhausting to membership them with the Hindus. This transfer of the RSS and Modi authorities may very well be discerned from the putting in an Adivasi because the President of India. Via this machination of theirs, they need to ship the message throughout the Adivasi neighborhood that they’re Hindus. One revealing facet of the RSS operation has been that it didn’t acknowledge them because the MoolNivasi of India, which one can deny that it’s in fact a historic truth. The reason being the motion it will establish the Adivasis because the MoolNivasi, they’ll stop to be the ingredient a part of the Hindu neighborhood.

Until early sixties the OBCs, EBCs, Dalits fashioned the core assist base of the Congress. However after the agrarian battle which emerged in a robust method throughout the nation, they may make out that the Congress managed by the higher castes, feudal lords and rightist parts which had their vested land curiosity wouldn’t present them with house to articulate their needs and aspiration they shifted their loyalties to the regional groupings. Within the early Seventies, these agrarian castes emerged as the brand new claimants of political energy. This section witnessed the emergence of Lalu Yadav, Devi Lal, Mulayam Sing, Ram Vilas Paswan and others below the management of Ram Manohar Lohia. They’ve with them the political ideology of socialism and social justice.

Because the leaders of those castes couldn’t present them a uniform and steady political base, after 2014 they shifted their allegiance to the BJP, particularly to Modi as he efficiently aroused their anti Congress sentiment and exploited for electoral good points. Initially socialism and politics of social justice made them preserve distance from the rightist forces, RSS and BJP, however later the sturdy urge to have energy and outline the political narrative of the nation, they joined the rightist forces. Consequently social justice politics misplaced its sheen, permitting the BJP’s aggressive politics of communal nationalism to dictate the political discourse.

Although the RSS and BJP intend to maintain these teams below its efficient management on the plea of their being Hindus, these teams should not content material to play second fiddle to the saffron brigade. They need extra energy and say. Considerably to steadiness them the RSS and BJP has been striving to convey the dalits and adivasis into their fold. It was with this in intention the a while again BJP introduced that below Hindutva politics, the bottom caste teams might be given satisfactory illustration in energy circles, could have particular welfare insurance policies executed for his or her empowerment and might be ensured a dignified social location.

However this isn’t going to occur. Whereas the RSS won’t divorce Manusmriti, the OBCs and EBCs are reluctant to abide by the dictates of Manusmriti because it brutally assaults their class curiosity. This has put the RSS and BJP in quandary. These caste teams additionally nurse the sensation that BJP has benefitted from their assist however the RSS and BJP has executed little or no to vary their life-style.

The primary section of Bihar’s caste-based census train has already commenced. The Mahagathbandhan could have important political advantages from a caste-based census. The United Progressive Alliance authorities on the Centre had carried out a socio-economic and caste census in 2011. Nonetheless, the information from that train was by no means launched citing errors in enumeration.

The Congress which has been progressively adopting left to the centre coverage and politics below Rahul Gandhi has been immediate to grasp the potential of launching caste census. Whereas Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister to instantly conduct the inhabitants census that had been scheduled for 2021, Rahul additionally demanded from Modi to publish the 2011 caste census knowledge. Congress additionally calls for elimination of fifty per cent cap on quota.

As regards Sangh Parivar, the opposition to the caste primarily based census at nationwide degree is linked to the roadmap drawn by them for the implementation of Hindu Rashtra in levels. The adoption of caste primarily based census is a hindrance in direction of  attaining their final political and social objective in India. (IPA Service)

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