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Symbols arouse dalit consciousness
Jay Kumar
Symbols arouse dalit consciousness
Friday's inauguration of the Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal, a public park in Noida, by UP chief minister Mayawati is being lamented as a colossal loss by the Congress and the BJP. The concerns expressed by them, couched in apparently benevolent terms, are amusing. The two parties have abjectly failed to rein in corruption in their own governments, which hurts the poor more. Moreover, they have never spared the slightest opportunity to indulge in symbolism.
The Congress, in particular, is more hypocritical. Whether it is roads, streets, parks, social welfare programmes, universities, stadiums et al, the party has named everything after the Nehru-Gandhi family in the country. And let's not forget the humongous losses that the country has suffered in a plethora of scams during the UPA's rule.
The losses incurred in the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2G spectrum allocation scam could have taken care of mega infrastructure development projects and bankrolled welfare programmes across the board. Likewise, the BJP has many skeletons in its cupboard. Moreover, its government in Gujarat hasn't yet furnished details of the expenditure of chief minister Narendra Modi's three-day sadbhavna fast, paid for by the state exchequer.
Housing statues of dalit icons like B R Ambedkar, Jyotiba Phule and Kanshi Ram, the sthal developed by Mayawati raises dalit consciousness and pride. If anything, it will be perceived as the community's challenge to upper caste domination. It's a legitimate move towards the creation and depiction of an alternate version of history.
The symbolic power of such moves can't be underestimated. And any attempt to undercut it may backfire electorally. In that sense, Mayawati is spot on that the park symbolises dalit empowerment.