The assault on the Babri Masjid by the RSSVHP-BJP combine and the communal violence unleashed by them in various parts of the country brazenly assert Manu’s dictum Brahmanism is above the law. It is now clear that this assault was possible partly due to the complicity of the very armed forces assignee to protect the Masjid from the Hindutva hooligans. Whatever may be the secular intentions of political leaders who come to power in this case Mulayam Singh Yadav the Indian state machinery will display its inherent brahminic bias. It will have no hesitation in storming and destroying the Sikh’s Golden Temple or gunning down defenseless Muslims. But it will display the utmost caution in wielding its weapons when it is a case of savarna hordes rampaging against reservation for the downtrodden or frenzied Hindutva-vadis storming a masjid. The assault on the Babri Masjid by the RSSVHP-BJP combine is the open declaration of continuous aggression against the Muslim minority and others for a Hindu fascist rule. In the coming days they will try to intensify this program. Their death dance at Ayodhya should be sufficient to drive home the lesson that timid liberal pleas for humanism or sanity will be of no use to defeat their plans. The disease must be tackled at its root: the poisonous fangs of Brahmanism which can flourish only through hate and discrimination must be broken. The broad masses of Hindus are not with these hindutva-vadis since they too suffer from its heinous casteist practice. The oppressed national peoples are also opposed to it because they have bitter experience of it through its modern constitutional form Indian integration. Neither appeasement nor parliamentary maneuvers have saved any country from the onslaught of fascism. If Mulayam Singh Yadav and others are genuinely interested in fighting for secular values they should get out of the parliamentary pigsty openly accepting that one cannot fight Brahmanism (hindutva) with machinery steeped in its values and come to the masses to join in the battle to destroy this monster.
(Courtesy Dalit Voice)
Article extracted from this publication >> March 15, 1991
