RSS DECEIT ON CONSTITUTIONAL
RESERVATION
RSS
which claims to be the biggest organization of Hindus in the world is, in fact,
a unique organization which trains its cadres in manufacturing and spreading
lies in the pure Goebbelian tradition. It functions as a gurukul; a high
Caste learning institution for Hindu high Castes where students also graduate in
practising what George Orwell termed ‘doublespeak’ and thus RSS has rightly
been described as an “organization that thrives on political doublespeak”.
[Edit, ‘Sangh’s triple-speak’, The Times of India, 26 August
2002.]. It is through lies that poison is spread against lower Castes, minorities
and all those who stand for multi-culturalism.
India
came face to face with this inherent trait of RSS when its Supremo Mohan
Bhagwat in a speech at Hyderabd (April 28, 2024) while reacting to a video (in
which a RSS luminary called upon to finish off constitutional Reservation)
stated
“Ye
galat baat hai, asatya hai (This is wrong, false)…“The Sangh has been
supporting all reservation as per the Constitution since the beginning. And,
the Sangh says that it should continue as long as those for whom it exists feel
that it is necessary…It (reservation policy) should continue as long as
discrimination exists in society.”
[‘Lok Sabha elections: RSS joins BJP quota firefight as
unease grows’, The Telegraph on Line, Kolkata, April 28, 2024.
when the founding
fathers of the Constitution of independent India made provisions for
reservations to Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes, the most prominent
ideologue of RSS and 2nd Supremo of the organization, MS Golwalkar
strongly reacted by alleging that the rulers “were digging at the roots of
Hindu social cohesion and destroying the spirit of identity that had kept all
the various sects in a harmonious whole in the past”. [Cited in N. L.
Gupta, RSS and Democracy (Delhi: Sampradayikta Virodhi Committee, nd.,
p. 17] He refused to admit that Hindu social system was at the root of the
neglect of the lower castes. [Golwalkar, MS., Bunch of Thoughts,
selection of writings/speeches/interviews, Sahitya Sindhu
Prakashana, Bangalore, 1996 [3rd edition], p.363.] When he
was asked: “What about the protection to Harijans guaranteed in the
Constitution and its subsequent extension?” His reply was:
“Dr. Ambedkar had envisaged the special
privileges for ‘Scheduled Castes’ for only 10 years from the day we became a
Republic in 1950. But it is going on, being extended. Continued special
privileges on the basis of caste only, is bound to create vested interests in them
in remaining as a separate entity. That would harm their integration with the
rest of the society [Hindu society]. [Golwalkar, MS., Spotlights, Sahitya Sindhu,
Bangalore, 1974, p. 16.]
For Golwalkar, the real
issue was not how to undo the injustice done to the lower Castes
[Sudras/Dalits] for thousands of years in the past but “take extra care to
see that their separateness is not given fillip.” [Golwalkar, MS.,
Spotlights, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1974, p. 184] He never accepted
the fact that lower Castes were being maltreated in India. While reacting to a
big carnage of Dalits in a part of India he wrote on October 14, 1972:
“There is a trend these
days to give Harijan-non-Harijan colour even to ordinary happenings, probably
out of political motivation and digging a rift in the oneness and solidarity of
the people. For immediate benefits-even these doubtful-to sacrifice the lasting
good of the people as a whole that is the unfortunate aspect of the trends
obtaining now a days. In our work, we have to steer clear of this poisonous
trend and do our best to clarify the atmosphere.” [Golwalkar, MS., Shri Guruji Sanmgr Darshan, (selection
of his writings/speeches in Hindi), vol. 7, Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur,
1974, p. 244.]
Golwalkar’s hatred for Dalits was outcome of his firm belief in Casteism
under which they did not enjoy even right to life. For him Casteism was synonymous
with the Hindu nation. According to him, the Hindu people are none else but,
“[The]
Virat Purusha, the Almighty manifesting himself…According to purusha
sukta sun and moon are his eyes, the stars and the skies are created from
his nabhi [navel] and Brahmin is the head, Kshatriya the hands,
Vaishya the thighs and Shudra the feet. This means that the people who have
this fourfold arrangement, i.e., the Hindu People, is [sic] our God.
This supreme vision of Godhead is the very core of our concept of ‘nation’ and
has permeated our thinking and given rise to various unique concepts of our
cultural heritage. [Italics as in the original]
[Golwalkar,
MS., Bunch of Thoughts, pp. 36-37.]
This was nothing but a re-phrasing of Manu’s inhuman
anti-Sudra codes. Golwalkar refused to accept that Casteism was a bane to
Hinduism or hindered the feeling of unity among Hindus.
“Persons
interested in calumniating Hindus make much of the caste system, the
‘superstitions’, the want of literacy, the position of women in the social structure,
and all sorts of true or untrue flaws in the Hindu Cultural Organization, and
point out that the weakness of the Hindus lies solely in these.”
[Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, pp. 61– 62.]
Ambedkar, who
witnessed RSS growing and was familiar with its destructive tendencies, was of the firm opinion
that the ideology of Hindutva practised by RSS was nothing
but a ploy by upper Caste Hindus to maintain
control over society and its resources. He wrote:
“They have a trait
of character which
often leads the Hindus to disaster. This trait is formed by
their acquisitive instinct and aversion to share
with others the good things
of life. They have
a monopoly of education and wealth, and with wealth and education they have captured the State. To keep this monopoly to themselves
has been the ambition and goal of their life. Charged
with this selfish idea of class domination, they take every move to exclude
the lower classes
of Hindus from wealth, education and power...This attitude of keeping education, wealth and power as a close preserve
for themselves and refusing to share it, which the high Caste Hindus
have developed in their relation
with the lower classes of
Hindus, is sought to be extended by them to the Muslims. They want to exclude the Muslims from place and
power, as they have done to the lower class Hindus.
This trait of the high Caste Hindus is the key to the understanding of their politics.”
[Ambedkar, BR., Pakistan or the Partition
of India, Government of Maharashtra, Bombay, 1990 (reprint of 1946 edition),
p. 123.]
How shamelessly RSS has been opposing Reservation was
made clear in 1981 when its cadres played most nefarious role in opposing
Reservation to socially and economically
backward Castes in Gujarat introduced by Congress ministry headed by Madhavsinh
Solanki. More than 100 people were killed including 2 police officials. It is
interesting to note that like today the debate of Reservation was turned in
spreading poison against local Muslims who were killed with impunity.
Shamsul
Islam
April
30, 2024
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