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Statues Must Be Built ONLY For Great Leaders Who Are No More!! Mayawati’s Statues Are A Disgrace To Dalits & This Woman Unless She Can Turn Herself Into A Great Leader & Die For Her Cause!!
Its good to see Maya Memsahab finally evolving as a National Level Leader. Capt Amrinder Singh, Naveen Patnaik are already there. India does not need lumpen politicians like rahul gandi, doggy raja, fuse blown sidhu, mamta bano, Stalin. The Valley Politicians need to Live with Hindustani Tehzeeb. That “kashmiriyat, jamooriat, insaniyat can wait. Unity & Integrity of India is far more important than its diversity and federalism that has been blatantly abused by some pathetic indian politicians. Cholbe Na anymore. India First! Caste creed religion Much Later. Adab se pesh aane ka hai. Hindustan belongs to Each & Every Indian. Hindustan is NOT baap -daada ki jagir of a Dynast or a lumpen politician.
The post recalls that reportedly, more than 15,000 statues of Ambedkar were installed during the BSP rule. Most villages in Uttar Pradesh have separate demarcated areas for different castes to live in; this is particularly true for segregation between the Dalits and other communities. In a village near Aligarh, the landowning Jat farmers lived in relative prosperity compared to their Dalit counterparts—who were allocated a small portion of barren land for their modest huts.
The Jat leaders of the village came together and requested all farmers to contribute a small sum of money toward the installation of a statue. It became the talk of the village because the statue in question was one of Dr B.R. Ambedkar—the man most integral to the cause of Dalits and for their upliftment!
It was rather odd that a class of people whose tyranny Ambedkar fought against now wanted to honour him! The Jat elders were happy to share that they wanted to put up a statue of Ambedkar, in its most popular fashion—Ambedkar’s finger pointing in the distance ahead. They wanted to install the statue as this was becoming a popular activity with the Dalits and they wanted to beat the latter to it! Not only that, Jats were adamant that Ambedkar’s finger must point toward their part of the village, with its back to the Dalit quarters!
Statues Must Be Built ONLY For Great Leaders Who Are No More!! Mayawati’s Statues Are A Disgrace To Dalits & This Woman Unless She Can Turn Herself Into A Great Leader & Die For Her Cause!!
Good article.
Its good to see Maya Memsahab finally evolving as a National Level Leader. Capt Amrinder Singh, Naveen Patnaik are already there. India does not need lumpen politicians like rahul gandi, doggy raja, fuse blown sidhu, mamta bano, Stalin. The Valley Politicians need to Live with Hindustani Tehzeeb. That “kashmiriyat, jamooriat, insaniyat can wait. Unity & Integrity of India is far more important than its diversity and federalism that has been blatantly abused by some pathetic indian politicians. Cholbe Na anymore. India First! Caste creed religion Much Later. Adab se pesh aane ka hai. Hindustan belongs to Each & Every Indian. Hindustan is NOT baap -daada ki jagir of a Dynast or a lumpen politician.
Wish Dalits would understand this and stop fighting within.
The post recalls that reportedly, more than 15,000 statues of Ambedkar were installed during the BSP rule. Most villages in Uttar Pradesh have separate demarcated areas for different castes to live in; this is particularly true for segregation between the Dalits and other communities. In a village near Aligarh, the landowning Jat farmers lived in relative prosperity compared to their Dalit counterparts—who were allocated a small portion of barren land for their modest huts.
The Jat leaders of the village came together and requested all farmers to contribute a small sum of money toward the installation of a statue. It became the talk of the village because the statue in question was one of Dr B.R. Ambedkar—the man most integral to the cause of Dalits and for their upliftment!
It was rather odd that a class of people whose tyranny Ambedkar fought against now wanted to honour him! The Jat elders were happy to share that they wanted to put up a statue of Ambedkar, in its most popular fashion—Ambedkar’s finger pointing in the distance ahead. They wanted to install the statue as this was becoming a popular activity with the Dalits and they wanted to beat the latter to it! Not only that, Jats were adamant that Ambedkar’s finger must point toward their part of the village, with its back to the Dalit quarters!