Thursday, 5 June 2014
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Why Maywati’s Dalit Vote Bank has shrunk? -S.R.Darapuri I.P.S. (Retd)
Why Maywati’s Dalit Vote Bank has shrunk?
S.R.Darapuri I.P.S. (Retd) and National Spokesman All India
Peoples Front
Commenting on the recent rout of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
in Lok Sabha election Mayawati has attributed it to Brahmans, Backwards and
Muslims having been misled and hence not voting for BSP. She added that they
may have to repent afterwards. As such she has clearly admitted the failure of
her much trumpeted up “social engineering” formula. Mayawati has also
attributed her failure at election to her having extended support to Congress
lead UPA government. She has further accused Congress and Samajvadi Party (SP)
for spreading the rumour that Dalit vote bank is shifting to Bhartiya Janta
Party (BJP) and thereby mislead Muslims and Backwards. But along with it she
has also claimed that in spite of her failure to win a single seat her Dalit
vote bank has remained intact.
Now let us test the truth of this claim in the light of
available data:-
If we look at the result of various elections since 2007 it
becomes clear that since the beginning of Mayawati ‘s Sarvjan Politics (All
People) in place of Bahujan (Majority of People)Politics in 2007 vote base of
BSP has continuously shrunk. In 2007 Assembly election BSP got 30.46 %, in 2009
Lok Sabha election 27.42 % (-3.02%), in 2012 Assembly election 25.90 % (-1.52%)
and now in 2014 Lok Sabha election it has come down to 19.60 % (-6.30%). It clearly shows that Mayawati’s claim of her
Dalit vote bank remaining intact is not correct.
Mayawati’s claim that her Dalit vote bank in Uttar Pradesh
(U.P.) has increased from 1.51 Crores in 2009 to 1.60 Crores in 2014 is also
not correct because out of a total increase of 1.61 Crore voters her share has
remained limited to 9 lacs voters only. According
to figures released by National Election Commission the vote share of BSP has
scaled down to 4.1% from 6.17 % in 2009 after suffering a fall of 2 %. Sanjay
Mohan, the Director of Centre for Study of Developing Societies has also hinted
at an encroachment on Dalit vote bank of Mayawati.
Mayawati’s blame that misguided Dalits have voted for BJP is
also baseless. She knows it well that a large chunk of Dalits including
Chamaras who are said to be highly committed to Mayawati, had moved away from
her during 2012 Assembly elections. One of the main reasons for it is that
Mayawati has sold Dalit politics to the same mafias, goons and capitalists who
are their class enemies. Antagonised with this a large number of Chamars and other
Dalit sub castes have moved away from BSP. It is well known that Mayawati sold the
Assembly and Parliamentry tickets by auction, sold Dalits votes like sheep and
goats to any body and boasted of having the power to transfer Dalit votes to anyone.
This antagonised the Dalits after some time. That is why during last Assembly
election and during recent Lok Sabha election Dalits have cut her to size and
have abandoned her in large numbers.
In the absence of any
Dalit development agenda and pursuing the politics of chair Dalits got
disillusioned with her. During her tenure of four times Chief Ministership of
U.P. Dalits did not get any material gain. On the contrary according to one
study barring Dalits of Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Rajsthan Dalits of U.P. stand behind Dalits of all
other states when judged on the development parameter like Male/Female Literacy
Rate, Male/Female/0-6 years Child Sex Ratio and Work Participation Rate
(Regular Employment). Mayawati’s personal and political corruption deprived the Dalits from the benefits of various
government welfare schemes. On the other hand her party rank holders and her
ministers prospered like anything. Dalit resentment against this has been
manifested in these elections. It is a fact there are about 40 Lok Sabha
constituencies which have Dalit population above 25 %. In 2009 BSP secured
second position in 17 seats but now it has come down to 11. It is thus clear
that Mayawati’s claim of Dalit vote bank remaining intact is against the
available facts.
In 2012 Assembly Mayawati had blamed the Muslims for not
voting for her party. Now again she has not only blamed them but has also said
that they may have to repent afterwards. Mayawati forgets the fact that she
herself is responsible for forcing the Muslims to distance themselves from her
party. In 1993 Muslims had voted for wholeheartedly with the expectation that
she will give them protection and work for their advancement. But in 1995 it
was Mayawati who with her lust for Chief Ministership of U.P. joined hands with
BJP, the declared enemy of Muslims. After this she twice sought help from BJP
to occupy the Chief Ministership of U.P.
Not only this in 2003 she gave a clean chit to Narinder Modi over massacre
of 2000 Muslims in Gujrat in 2002 and also went for electioneering in Assembly
elections in Gujrat. There is no guarantee that she will not again join hands
with BJP. In the face of this shameless opportunism, how does Mayawati expect
Muslims to continue to vote for her. Her silence over Muzaffarnagar riots also
added to their antagonism.
Mayawati’s refusal to admit any of her faults for her
failure has further antagonised Dalits and Muslims. Last time she had blamed
the Muslims for it. This time she is putting blame on her support for Congress
lead UPA government under the pretext of keeping away communal forces from government.
But it does not seem to be very convincing. The fact is that her fear of CBI
because of her Disproportionate Property case compelled her to support UPA and
this case is still hanging in Supreme Court. The same fear may again compel her
to be soft towards BJP. Mayawati herself is responsible for this sorry state of
affairs.
From the above brief discussion it is clear that Dalits have
slammed Mayawati’s Sarvjan formula. The Muslims have also moved away from her.
At present the biggest challenge to
Dalits, Muslims, Labour class, farmers, small entrepreneurs and petty shop
keepers is from the pro Corporate, Hindutva and fascist politics which cannot
be faced by opportunist, blackmailing and pro Corporate politics of Mayawati
and Mulayam Singh type politicians. It is required that all Leftists,
Progressive and Ambedkarite forces should come together to oppose Corporate and
Fascist politics by adopting pro people politics.
At the end I would like to reiterate the comments of Naom
Chomasky , the world renowned political thinker in which on 15th May at Boston
he said,"The
extreme right forces will take over India. India is in for a danger. It
is a very dangerous situation. The BJP will come to power like the
Nazis did in Germany through populist measures. The BJP is following the
same model. The Congress has miserably failed to check these forces. It
is the responsibility of all shades of the leftist and other
progressive forces to come together and accept this challenge and change
the situation."
(On that day Naom Chomasky had delivered his one and a half hour lecture in Cambridge Public Library on Foreign Policy of America. He gave this reaction in an informal talk with Ram Sharan Joshi).
(On that day Naom Chomasky had delivered his one and a half hour lecture in Cambridge Public Library on Foreign Policy of America. He gave this reaction in an informal talk with Ram Sharan Joshi).
Thursday, 15 May 2014
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Saturday, 15 February 2014
All India Peoples Front demands Judicial inquiry into false implication of innocent Muslims in terror cases by police agencies
To,
The Home Minister,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Govt. Of India,
New Delhi.
Sir,
Reproduced below is the resolution passed on 12.02.2014 during All India People Front (R) National Convenor, Akhlendar Partap Singh’s 10 day’s Fast and Dharna from 7th February to 16th February, 2014 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. Attached herewith are also two documents titled “The Conspiracy after the Terror” and “The People of the Abyss” downloaded from www.gulail.com. which contain evidence of innocence of the Muslims falsely implicated by police in terror cases. A copy of the Criminal Appeal filed in Bombay High Court by Ashish Khetan, a renowned Journalist is also enclosed herewith for information and necessary action. A similar Criminal Appeal is also proposed to be filed in Allahabd High Court.
It is, therefore, requested that a Judicial Commission may be constituted to enquire into the false implication of innocent Muslims in terror cases of U.P. and Maharashtra to ensure justice and fair play.
S.R.Darapuri
Ex- I.G.Police & National Spokesman,
All India Peoples Front (R)
******
Resolution regarding constituting a Judicial Commission to enquire into false implication of innocent Muslims in Terror Cases of U.P. and Maharashtra passed on 12.02.2014 during All India People Front (R) (AIPF) National Convenor, Akhlendar Partap Singh’s 10 days Fast and Dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi from 7th February to 16th February, 2014
1. Different State police services have arrested people, mostly belonging to Muslim families, some of them abjectly poor, for having participated in the act and conspiracy for conducting bomb blasts at various locations in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. It is now clear from documents that are available on record with these investigative agencies that they are aware, as of this date, that all these persons are innocent, or at the very least, that there is competing evidence in the form of confessions and parallel investigations that somebody else committed these offences. The same set of confessions/fresh evidence also reveals that the Gujarat police had deliberately expanded the ambit of the 2008 Ahmadabad Blasts Conspiracy to implicate around 50 Muslim youth who had nothing to do with the blasts.
2. The most obvious and well known example of conflicting evidence in terror investigations is the 2006 Malegaon mosque blasts. Explosives were shown to be recovered from some persons, and the ATS said that these were used in Malegaon and the Mumbai train blasts. The ATS even had an approver in the Malegaon case. It has now been found by the NIA that it was a Hindutva group behind Malegaon blasts for which around a dozen poor Muslims picked up had spent many years in jail. The Maharashtra ATS had managed to procure ‘confessions’ from these men and had also managed to put up approvers and accomplices before the Court. There is no other conclusion to be drawn from this apart from the fact that it was a manufactured case.
3. The research conducted by Ashish Khetan, a noted journalist and released publicly has shown that at least in three cases prosecuted by Maharashtra police, namely the Mumbai local train blasts on 11.07.2006, the 2006 Malegaon Blasts and the Pune German Bakery case of February 2010, Maharashtra police has deliberately created bogus evidence, extracted false confessions by subjecting the accused to most inhuman forms of torture, planted explosives in the houses of the accused and thus implicated innocent Muslim youth.
4.. It is pertinent to mention here that a man named Sadiq Sheikh, a member of the Indian Mujahideen, was arrested in September, 2008. Agencies like Mumbai Crime Branch have themselves claimed (both in court and in public) that Sadiq’s interrogation led to the arrest of over 70 terror suspects by UP ATS, Hyderabad CIC, Ahmedabad Crime Branch, Rajasthan ATS and Delhi Special Cell. Some of the content of these reports, and ‘confessions’ etc is part of the charge-sheets filed by different agencies. But curiously Sadiq and his accomplices were charge-sheeted in only those blast cases in which the investigation was still not completed. Hyderabad Blasts (Gokul Chat and Lumbini Park) of 2007, Ahmedabad and Surat (aborted) Blasts of 2008, Delhi Blasts of 2008 were some of the cases in which the alleged Indian Mujahideen members including Sadiq Shaikh were charges-sheeted.
5. Similar evidence of false arrests and false prosecutions is available on record about seven terror cases in Uttar Pradesh. The internal records that are now available suggest that an entirely different set of accused than those who had been originally arrested and charge sheeted in these seven cases are believed by other terror investigation agencies to be involved in these cases. Investigation agencies like the Maharashtra ATS, Gujarat Police and UP ATS have a version of the UP terror cases, which are completely at variance with what is lead before the courts in UP. A set of terror suspects were arrested much after the arrest of the original accused. What is extremely significant is that in the interrogation reports prepared by different agencies (including UP ATS) these terror suspects had neither suggested nor claimed of having any even remote linkage or connection with those accused who had been originally arrested for these blasts by the different arms of the UP Police.Internal records also indicate that interrogation reports of several terror suspects recorded by different anti-terror agencies of the country narrate an entirely contradictory story of at least seven terror cases related to the state of Uttar Pradesh than that told by the UP police to the courts currently trying these cases. Shockingly, some of these interrogation reports have been prepared by the agencies like Anti-terrorist Squad of the Uttar Pradesh police itself—the very same police that is behind the arrests and investigations of some of these cases.
6. In such a situation, it is clear that wherever investigations are looked into one finds many stories of false investigations and arrests. Some of these false prosecutions and arrests may have been actuated by malice and some simply to avoid loss of face in light of the contradictory evidence which shows the original prosecution story to be false. In either case, it is clear that in these, and possibly in other cases, those false cases have been foisted on innocent people because they were vulnerable and because the police did not show results. In such a situation, there is an urgent need for impartial review from an impartial agency to make sure that terror cases are continued only when they are actually made out.
7. No quarter should be given to those who indulge in terror crimes. What happens when the innocent are prosecuted is that the guilty escape and get emboldened. The IRs (Interrogation Reports) collected by Ashish Khetan suggest that crime after crime was committed by a set of entirely different persons while the police and security agencies wantonly pursued false cases. Had serious leads been followed to start with, many crimes may have been prevented.
8. The new evidence available with the NIA and other Central Agencies show that in many major terror cases the State Police in order to show quick results have implicated innocent Muslims on the basis of fabricated evidence. The new body of evidence which completely contradicts investigations done by Maharashtra ATS, UP Police and Gujarat Police needs to be judiciously and independently examined and the existing trials and cases like 7/11 Mumbai Train Blasts, Pune German Bakery Blast, UP Court Blasts, etc. need to be reviewed. There is an urgent need to form a judicial commission or a high-level enquiry committee for the purpose. While innocent accused need to be released and rehabilitated, those culpable for such heinous crimes should be tried and given exemplary punishment.
The Home Minister,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Govt. Of India,
New Delhi.
Sir,
Reproduced below is the resolution passed on 12.02.2014 during All India People Front (R) National Convenor, Akhlendar Partap Singh’s 10 day’s Fast and Dharna from 7th February to 16th February, 2014 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. Attached herewith are also two documents titled “The Conspiracy after the Terror” and “The People of the Abyss” downloaded from www.gulail.com. which contain evidence of innocence of the Muslims falsely implicated by police in terror cases. A copy of the Criminal Appeal filed in Bombay High Court by Ashish Khetan, a renowned Journalist is also enclosed herewith for information and necessary action. A similar Criminal Appeal is also proposed to be filed in Allahabd High Court.
It is, therefore, requested that a Judicial Commission may be constituted to enquire into the false implication of innocent Muslims in terror cases of U.P. and Maharashtra to ensure justice and fair play.
S.R.Darapuri
Ex- I.G.Police & National Spokesman,
All India Peoples Front (R)
******
Resolution regarding constituting a Judicial Commission to enquire into false implication of innocent Muslims in Terror Cases of U.P. and Maharashtra passed on 12.02.2014 during All India People Front (R) (AIPF) National Convenor, Akhlendar Partap Singh’s 10 days Fast and Dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi from 7th February to 16th February, 2014
1. Different State police services have arrested people, mostly belonging to Muslim families, some of them abjectly poor, for having participated in the act and conspiracy for conducting bomb blasts at various locations in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. It is now clear from documents that are available on record with these investigative agencies that they are aware, as of this date, that all these persons are innocent, or at the very least, that there is competing evidence in the form of confessions and parallel investigations that somebody else committed these offences. The same set of confessions/fresh evidence also reveals that the Gujarat police had deliberately expanded the ambit of the 2008 Ahmadabad Blasts Conspiracy to implicate around 50 Muslim youth who had nothing to do with the blasts.
2. The most obvious and well known example of conflicting evidence in terror investigations is the 2006 Malegaon mosque blasts. Explosives were shown to be recovered from some persons, and the ATS said that these were used in Malegaon and the Mumbai train blasts. The ATS even had an approver in the Malegaon case. It has now been found by the NIA that it was a Hindutva group behind Malegaon blasts for which around a dozen poor Muslims picked up had spent many years in jail. The Maharashtra ATS had managed to procure ‘confessions’ from these men and had also managed to put up approvers and accomplices before the Court. There is no other conclusion to be drawn from this apart from the fact that it was a manufactured case.
3. The research conducted by Ashish Khetan, a noted journalist and released publicly has shown that at least in three cases prosecuted by Maharashtra police, namely the Mumbai local train blasts on 11.07.2006, the 2006 Malegaon Blasts and the Pune German Bakery case of February 2010, Maharashtra police has deliberately created bogus evidence, extracted false confessions by subjecting the accused to most inhuman forms of torture, planted explosives in the houses of the accused and thus implicated innocent Muslim youth.
4.. It is pertinent to mention here that a man named Sadiq Sheikh, a member of the Indian Mujahideen, was arrested in September, 2008. Agencies like Mumbai Crime Branch have themselves claimed (both in court and in public) that Sadiq’s interrogation led to the arrest of over 70 terror suspects by UP ATS, Hyderabad CIC, Ahmedabad Crime Branch, Rajasthan ATS and Delhi Special Cell. Some of the content of these reports, and ‘confessions’ etc is part of the charge-sheets filed by different agencies. But curiously Sadiq and his accomplices were charge-sheeted in only those blast cases in which the investigation was still not completed. Hyderabad Blasts (Gokul Chat and Lumbini Park) of 2007, Ahmedabad and Surat (aborted) Blasts of 2008, Delhi Blasts of 2008 were some of the cases in which the alleged Indian Mujahideen members including Sadiq Shaikh were charges-sheeted.
5. Similar evidence of false arrests and false prosecutions is available on record about seven terror cases in Uttar Pradesh. The internal records that are now available suggest that an entirely different set of accused than those who had been originally arrested and charge sheeted in these seven cases are believed by other terror investigation agencies to be involved in these cases. Investigation agencies like the Maharashtra ATS, Gujarat Police and UP ATS have a version of the UP terror cases, which are completely at variance with what is lead before the courts in UP. A set of terror suspects were arrested much after the arrest of the original accused. What is extremely significant is that in the interrogation reports prepared by different agencies (including UP ATS) these terror suspects had neither suggested nor claimed of having any even remote linkage or connection with those accused who had been originally arrested for these blasts by the different arms of the UP Police.Internal records also indicate that interrogation reports of several terror suspects recorded by different anti-terror agencies of the country narrate an entirely contradictory story of at least seven terror cases related to the state of Uttar Pradesh than that told by the UP police to the courts currently trying these cases. Shockingly, some of these interrogation reports have been prepared by the agencies like Anti-terrorist Squad of the Uttar Pradesh police itself—the very same police that is behind the arrests and investigations of some of these cases.
6. In such a situation, it is clear that wherever investigations are looked into one finds many stories of false investigations and arrests. Some of these false prosecutions and arrests may have been actuated by malice and some simply to avoid loss of face in light of the contradictory evidence which shows the original prosecution story to be false. In either case, it is clear that in these, and possibly in other cases, those false cases have been foisted on innocent people because they were vulnerable and because the police did not show results. In such a situation, there is an urgent need for impartial review from an impartial agency to make sure that terror cases are continued only when they are actually made out.
7. No quarter should be given to those who indulge in terror crimes. What happens when the innocent are prosecuted is that the guilty escape and get emboldened. The IRs (Interrogation Reports) collected by Ashish Khetan suggest that crime after crime was committed by a set of entirely different persons while the police and security agencies wantonly pursued false cases. Had serious leads been followed to start with, many crimes may have been prevented.
8. The new evidence available with the NIA and other Central Agencies show that in many major terror cases the State Police in order to show quick results have implicated innocent Muslims on the basis of fabricated evidence. The new body of evidence which completely contradicts investigations done by Maharashtra ATS, UP Police and Gujarat Police needs to be judiciously and independently examined and the existing trials and cases like 7/11 Mumbai Train Blasts, Pune German Bakery Blast, UP Court Blasts, etc. need to be reviewed. There is an urgent need to form a judicial commission or a high-level enquiry committee for the purpose. While innocent accused need to be released and rehabilitated, those culpable for such heinous crimes should be tried and given exemplary punishment.
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