With this murder of guruji the whole world has become an attracity prone area. & the hindu caste system was designed in such a mannar they justiy killing a dalit and raping a dalit women a non stop agitation is only the solution - karthik
On 5/26/09, Ranjit Ranjit <[email protected]> wrote: > *an interesting observation on the recent uprising of Dalit Sikhs in > Punjab.....* > > > Dear Friends > > Jaibheem > > > My condolences on the unfortunate death of a Dalit-Sikh religious leader in > Austria. The group represented by him is one of the main Dalit groups in > Punjab and Haryana that is trying to fight the caste oppression and has been > instrumental in mobilizing the Dalit Sikh across the globe. The group is > known for adopting peaceful means for the rights of the dalit sikhs. > > This was waiting to happen and I fear that there is going to be lot more > violence in the near future in Punjab and Haryana. Since last one decade > there has been underlying tensions in Punjab especially the Doab area (areas > surrounding jalandhar) where lots of Dalits have migrated to US and > European countries and are earning well. > > Before the immigration thing the Dalits never used to assert themselves in > Punjab within the Sikhism fold. There has been undercurrents , impact left > of adi-dharmi movement but that was against Hinduism and caste system per > se. They never challenged the Sikh clergies and the strong hold of jat and > khatri sikhs on Punjab social, political and economic scene. > > However, with the remittance money coming they have now started to build > their own gurudwaras almost in each village of that region. The assertion > has come via NRI Dalits in this region. The Dalit NRIs started to build the > ravidas temples since 60s onwards mainly in Canada, US, Germany and few > other european countries and they also gave donations to local gurudwaras in > their native villages. But they also demanded equal control of gurudwaras > assets which the Sikh clergy dominated by jat sikhs everywhere refused to > share the control. One of the prime example was talhan case that happened > 2-3 years ago. the violence in talhan happened over control of the local > gurudwara. > > Simultaneously Punjab also have history of deras (small sects) which have > huge followings among the dalit Sikhs. But these deras never talk about > caste oppression or caste inequality. They talk about equality in the sugar > coated words and are less rigid then jat Sikh control mainstream Sikh > gurudwaras. > > However their large following among the Dalits have made them the target of > jat Sikhs and their party like SAD as they fear that these sects later might > become the power centre for dalit assertions. therefore u wil see lots of > violence and persecution of these dera heads in recent times by mainstream > Sikhs on flimsy grounds ( for example last year persecution of guru ram > raheem of dera saccha sauda which is headed by non-dalit but has large Dalit > Sikh followings). > > Till now the Jat Sikhs (and SAD) never targeted the Dalit groups like > Ravidas samaj because it will be overtly casteist and the rupture within the > Sikh society will become open. So they targeted only these Deras and asked > them to confirm to Sikh religion almost at the lines of Taliban. > > However, i feel we have reached to the flash point and I fear that there > will be huge persecution of dalit Sikhs as the entire state apparatus is > with the jat sikhs. The RSS also share a very strong relationship with SAD > and fights election together with SAD in Delhi and Punjab since a decade > now. > > I am confident that Congress doesn't have guts to take a stand in this issue > as they are already targeted for being anti-Sikh. Being a secular party i > don't think they will even want to take a stand on 'religious' issue. > > Lets see what happens in the future. I fear the same treatment for dalit > Sikh that happened to Christians in kandhmal (all were Dalits) in orissa but > things are little better as there is a large NRI Dalit Sikh population which > will make their task of persecuting Dalits in punjab little difficult. > > > > > -- > "Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran > so your children can fly" > > > > > > -- > Ranjit > > > > -- Battula Karthik Navayan, Advocate, H.No. 21-7-761, Opp.High Court Post Office, Gansi Bazar, Hyderabad, PIN-500002, AP. Cell:09346677007, email:[email protected] http://karthiknavayan.blogspot.com/ http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=10379805095932756525 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
