A Serious Matter...
Dear All,
My thoughts on the Gohana episode are a bit different than those expressed because there is a deeper social upheaval that is underway in our villages. Should my views be unpalatable, I don’t seek any forgiveness because it is necessary to speak the truth.
The fact that ‘Harijans & Dalits’ have been trampled upon for centuries can’t be denied. It is not the fault of JATS to be landowners all over the world. The society of yesteryears was based upon ‘Might is Right’. We had the might, therefore our ancestors occupied and tilled the most fertile lands. If a Harijan is born the way he is, and lives the life he lives, you can’t blame anyone for it. I am ready to see it as destiny, past Karmas or what you will. It does not mean that they have no right to better their living conditions, lead healthier, cleaner, happier and purposeful lives. We all have grown up in villages and have seen that how dependent they are on the landowners, mostly JATS.
Reservation has been guaranteed to them by our founding fathers and they have used and misused it to the hilt. Yet their lot has not improved because the whole issue of reservations is lopsided. Again they can’t blame others for it. The most disturbing trend is observed in the last two decades when these people have come to realise their immense ‘Nuisance Value’ in electoral politics and exploitation of the same. The likes of Kanshi Ram, Mayavati, Paswan, Lallo and ‘Mother of All Exploiters, the Nehru – Gandhi Dynasty have always bent backwards to ensure that undue advantage is given to Dalits. These people have the freedom to do whatever they feel like, occupy any empty land, erect a statue of Ambedkar wherever they feel like and the land becomes theirs. See what happens when you try to remove these encroachers. They are ready to do any kind of job to ensure two things: retain their nuisance value and keep increasing their numbers. They can **** on Rajpath and you can do nothing about it. In fact there are acts passed by parliament to punish law-abiding citizens who try and protest against the lawlessness of Dalits.
Now take the condition of our brethren, the JATS who are living in the villages. I don’t have to repeat as to how shrinking land, exodus to towns by those who can afford to and increasing population adversely affect the otherwise sturdy community of JATS. In simple words the villager feels left out. Those in the villages have hardly any other source of income to fall back upon except agriculture or may be a son who is in Fauj, BSF, CRPF, DTC, Haryana Roadways or some such job. Today even a Jawan wants to have independence from the shackles of a joint family and go it alone as he feels that his children will be better looked after. Add to this predicament the universally known and accepted negative qualities of our community and the mixture is alarming if not explosive. The most disturbing fact of history is that no other community stands in support of the JATS, no one.
The catalyst to this whole mixture is near abandonment of the JAT villager by their so-called political leaders and their kith and kin who are better off (exceptions are agreed to). Because we can never unite and vote as a single entity like Dalits, we would remain neglected. The politician knows that half the JATS in a village will vote for Congress and the other half for INLD/BJP. He also knows that those who voted for them this year would vote for the other side next year. So it doesn’t really matter to them because the numbers game is in the hands of Dalits and minorities. Therefore, the politician is targeting the Dalit vote (No wonder Mr Hooda, our CM. was sitting so full of guilt during the press conference, flanked ofcourse by the future leader Randeep Surjewala, as though he himself had torched the Dalit Basti in Gohana). Not a single politician has spoken about the JAT boy who was murdered.
Now the question that Police should have been allowed to do their job and that famous quote about ‘Law should take its own course’. Those of you who don’t know should be wiser by knowing that in Haryana (and may be other places as well) there is a going rate for covering up the crimes one commits. Murder ki FIR mein hera pheri karne ke liye itne hazar, Dacoity ko Chori karne ke liye itne hazar. The whole damn system is rotten. And what will holding Dharna achieve? Nothing at all as the Government of India has stopped listening to those who don’t have the power to raise an armed struggle.
Such incidents will increase in the future all over Haryana. I fear this will lead to near civil war like situation because once the Communists jump in the fray, the Naxalities are not far behind. Attempt will be made to convert a peaceful state and industrially active area into another Bihar. I see such episodes to be a direct challenge to The JAT self respect/esteem. If we don’t unite into a single political force our condition would be worst than Dalits. JATS will never lift **** on their heads or polish shoes on a railway platform to survive, whereas Dalits can do anything. It is Disadvantage JATS all the way. The day is not far off when abandoned JATS from the villages will be so disgusted by the present administrators and politicians that they will have no option but to resort to violence. And there are many enemies of India who will support them. After all they are not located very far away. I pray everyday that we don’t reach that stage.
Need I tell you what my reaction to the Gohana episode is?
Regards,
JS Malik
