Upper Caste Savagery
The deliberate murder of two
dalit children at Shivpur in Madhya
Pradesh by two Yadav brothers for
defecating in the open near a
panchayat building exposes how
the scourge of casteism is heigh-
tened in our ‘modern India’ during
the rule of BJP’s Modi government.
That the higher officials of police
have attempted to absolve the
crime of accused by stating that “it
appeared the two accused were
mentally deranged” even against
the evidence that “the accused
held a grudge against the victim’s
family, since two years ago the
victims had reportedly taken from
the field of the accused to build a
hut”, and also that the accused
after hitting on the heads of two
children, took videos of them
writhing in pain and lying in a pool
of blood, exposes how the
administration is hand in glove of
the upper caste equations. This is
not the first time such callous
attitude against atrocities and
inhuman violence on dalits and
minorities was shown by the higher
echelon officers of the police forces
which are supposed to maintain law
and order.
The present incident glaringly
exposes the shame of our nation
for its inhuman and beastly nature
of casteism against the dalits on the
lower rung of the despicable caste
structure long established in our
society. This national shame cannot
be eased even by the flattery of
Donald Trump, the President of
USA, that the Prime Minister Modi
is the ‘father of the nation’ or
‘global goal keeper” showered by
the Milinda Gates Foundation on
Narendra Modi. Those commen-
dations have their own calculations
to benefit from Indian Market as
well as voter-immigrant Persons of
Indian origin residing in the US. The
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three Nobel laureates – Mairead
Maguise, a peace activist from
northern Ireland, Tawakkal Abdel-
Salam Karman, a Yemeni journalist
and politician and Shirin Ebadi, an
Iranian lawyer and political activist,
have rightly criticized the Gates
Foundation for naming Modi as a
beneficiary to the prestigious award
castigating that “under his
leadership India has descended in
to dangerous and deadly chaos
that has consistently undermined
democracy”. They also stated
emphasizing that “this is
particularly troubling to us as the
stated mission of your foundation
is to preserve life and fight
inequality”.
Today the right to live
supposed to have been bestowed
by the constitution is determinedly
denied to dalits and minorities
through means of unbridled
violence with the mute consent of
government in power at the behest
of RSS –the religious chauvinist
upper caste bigot that directs the
BJP government.
The real cause for the beastly
murder of dalit children is not
defecating in public but casteism
against lower caste people and the
atmosphere that allows the upper
castes to commit inhuman, heinous
and violent atrocities with impunity.
Life of human beings of dalit castes
is not a sacred and inviolable virtue
to those Hindu bigots and their
semi-feudal system.
This scourge of savagery has
to be resisted and fought out by
the people to protect the right to
live of down trodden dalits.
Growing NPAs
The crisis in the banking
sector is a manufactured one,
where the Public Sector Banks
(PSB) have been arm-twisted to
lend on large scale without due
diligence, collaterals and recovery
system. This created non-Perfor-
ming Assets(NPA) of more than Rs.
11 lakh crore till the end of 2018.
This was the balance remained of
NPAs after they got written off to
the tune of Rs.7 lakh crore in the
last 10 years.
Since 2015, NPAs are
increasing and now reached to a
stage of threatening the very
existence of the PSBs. The total
disbursement of loans by PSBs in
2016-17 was 69% of the total loans
– the axe fell on agriculture and
small and medium industries. The
banking services have shrinked
over the past five years. The
number of PSBs has come down
from 21 to 12 due to merger of
‘bad’ ones with others by the
government as a desperate
measure to thwart their bankruptcy.
The very fact that 82% of NPAs
is that of corporate loans tells the
root cause of this crisis.
P.Chidambaram, when he was the
inister told on record that major
chunk of NPAs were due to the
default by 30 families, and soon he
would give the names of those
defaulters. The BJP, which during
the elections promised to punish
those responsible for NPAs, took
no action in that direction.
The politicians, bureaucrats
and big capitalists formed a vicious
nexus to have control over the
PSBs. Indian banks have written off
a whopping Rs. 1,56,702 crore
during the nine months ended
December 2018, taking the total
write off to over Rs.7,00,000 crore
in the last 10 years. Almost four-
fifths of this amount of written off
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Class Struggle