Will Mr.Rahul Gandhi marry a Dalit girl?

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Rahul Gandhi has instructed congress workers to “spend a day with Dalit household” for commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary. This approach underlines the party’s assumption that something is wrong with the dalits. “Lets go and work for their betterment.” How many of them say, “let’s go and visit upper castes and change their perception and attitude towards dalits.”

Genuine steps towards bringing about real social transformation are desired and not tokenism and lip service. Rahul Gandhi should begin with visits to upper caste households and persuade them to ensure bringing about notional change resulting in shedding their prejudiced opinions of dalits being untouchable and pollutant.

The present approach of the Rahul Gandhi not only humiliates dalits but also victimises them. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was convinced that inter caste marriages and notional change would annihilate caste. If Rahul Gandhi is at all sincere in his efforts, he got to undertake challenging work of carrying out mass inter caste marriage drives vis a vis social campaign in order to bring about notional change. Does Rahul have courage to set precedence by marrying a Dalit girl?

United Nations Human Rights Council is set to ratify draft principles, which will recognize India’s caste system as a human rights abuse. Rahul Gandhi pretends to be pro dalit in India and exploits his visits to dalit households for strengthening political grass roots. However, his government at the centre is acting against the interest of dalits and restoration of human dignity. Government of India has lobbied heavily in Human Rights Council for excluding “caste” from the draft earlier this year. How does Rahul Gandhi justify differential stand of the congress over dalit rights and dignity at local and global level?

It only exposes the dual standard congress harbors. Dalits would be better served if concrete and concerted steps were taken not only to deal with caste injustices at the local and national level but also to provide recognition of caste at UN level. And efforts are taken to address inequalities and corrective measures are taken for abandoning prevailing prejudiced victims approach. It remains to be seen weather Government of India ratifies The United Nations Human Rights Council to recognize India’s caste system as a human rights abuse and take a step towards providing dignified discrimination free, egalitarian society. The action of Indian government will also reveal weather Rahul and congress lead Indian government is genuinely interest in development of the dalits or ends up as one of the deceptive, misleading, dualist and status quoits gimmick.

Rahul Gandhi should marry a dalit girl and undertake a mega social campaign encouraging young congress workers to follow his path and secondly Indian Government must ratify UN efforts to recognize Indian caste system as human right abuse which will provide dignity to millions of dalits. Failing to follow either of these two will expose the casteist and hegemonic mind set of congress and Rahul Gandhi’s visits will go down in history as a political gimmick to entice politically maturing dalits.

November 12th, 2009 | Category: just One point | (3 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5)
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