Red Faced

Palash Biswas

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Aamar Gram, Tomar Gram, Shobar Gram: Nandigram,
Nandigram

My Village; Your Village; Everybody's village.
Nandigram. Nandigram

Ruling Classes in India go in accordance with their plans as Resistance in Nandigram esclates to Pasco, Orrissa. Buddha is way ahead in his Capitalist marxist way. PM, FM and Ahloowalia Worldbank Company has put India on sale. US is exposes and Iraqi Parliament explodes. Latest technology is sought for the luxurious life style imported. OBC quota stays in deep freeze! Dalits have to be persecuted in India as Post Modern manusmriti dictates the Brahminical system. Left streamlines its Gestapo with disaster management.Oil is telling the truth of war against Terrorism!

Tatas ready to produce the dream car as singur is cleared. Mamata Bannerjee also seems to be compromising. Thus, Hind Motors faces a Lockout!

Red Faced Hindu Zionist Ruling Classes pace with one step back and two step forward.

The closure of the Hindustan Motors factory in West Bengal sparked fresh violence Thursday, officials said.
Trade union activists got into a scuffle with the police when the latter tried to take out of the hospital a police officer injured earlier. The company had Wednesday suspended work at its unit at Uttarpara. The Thursday clash occurred after the Sangrami Jukto Mancha (SJM) members alleged that the official had harassed the workers during a peaceful sit-in demonstration the day before.SJM members have been on strike since March 13.

US consul general in Kolkata Henry V Jardine does not give importance to CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat's report on Nandigram, which said there was an American conspiracy behind the mayhem. Jardine finds it hard to understand why the CPI(M) is pulling him into a controversy that is essentially the state's own. Karat, in her fact-finding report on Nandigram, said there was an American hand behind communal tensions in Nandigram. America is in a bid to promote the fundamental forces in the Left-ruled state as the Left parties are against the Union government's strategic partnership with the US, the report said.

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has told his cabinet colleagues that the government is definitely on a "back-foot" post Nandigram and acknowledged the need of moving "cautiously and slow" on projects, which would involve land acquisition.Bhattacharjee said this on reply to CPI's water investigation minister Nandogopal Bhattacharya’s question as to when would the Nandigram war end. "Even the World War was known to have had an end," he told the chief minister.

Bhattacharjee at the Core Committee meeting with the Front ministers. Though he admitted the need of going slow on industrialisation, especially which would involve acquisition of large areas of land, at the same time he said that it would be wrong to say that everything has come to a standstill after Nandigram.

"Its not that everything has come

With pressure mounting on it to get the Supreme Court stay on OBC quota in elite educational institutions vacated, Government today said it would take all necessary steps in that direction."Our government is committed to ensure justice for OBCs", Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi told reporters here.Trade talks between major trade powers must achieve a breakthrough by June 30 to meet a year-end deadline to conclude the WTO's Doha round, an Indian government source told Reuters. "If we don;t have a breakthrough by June 30 ... AN embarrassed Indian Government bowed to pressure from across the country yesterday and withdrew an official form that required millions of female public servants to provide details of their menstrual cycles and date of their last pregnancy.The form, issued by the central Government's Ministry for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions as part of a mandatory annual performance review, had caused widespread outrage.

Female public servants said they were appalled by the requirement. State of Maharashtra Environment Secretary Sharwari Gokhale said: "I am completely shocked. I have absolutely no words to describe how I feel and I have absolutely no intention of telling them anything about my personal life."

Another public servant, Seema Vyas, said: "Menstrual cycles are a natural phenomenon, they are not an aberration. One does not object to questions related to fitness levels - they are important as they can affect work.

"But there is no need for these details as this does not have any bearing on our work."
The West Bengal government admitted that three cases have been registered against unknown police personnel for alleged rape and outraging of modesty at Nandigram on March 14 but denied that the police had resorted to indiscriminate firing there.

In an affidavit before the Calcutta High Court in connection with a PIL filed by lawyer Anwar Ali, the government said a case of rape was registered against unknown police officers by a woman from Kalicharanpur.

Two other residents of Nandigram also registered cases at Nandigram Police Station. While one woman alleged rape, the other stated that her modesty was outraged.

The affidavit stated that all the three cases were under investigation under the supervision of senior police officers, but at present the investigation officers were unable to go to the affected areas.

The affidavit, signed by a Joint Secretary of the Home Department, sought to deny the petitioner's claim that the "purported rape victims out of fear and shyness could not approach the police station."

It questioned, "How such shy women could freely speak to the deponent about their purported plight."

It also claimed that the question of a CBI investigation into the allegations of rape, as prayed by Ali, did not and could not arise.

The state also questioned the maintainability of the writ as a PIL claiming that the petitioner had not filed it on behalf of either the public or a section of the community for violation of a fundamental right.

Gail India today said it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Indian Oil Corporation for city gas distribution projects in West Bengal. The new company will have 22.5 per cent equity holding each by Gail and IndianOil, five per cent by the West Bengal government and a major 50 per cent by strategic investors or financial institutions.
The scope of work includes distribution and marketing of CNG for vehicles, and Piped Natural Gas for domestic, commercial and industrial purposes. The company will also take up supply of auto LPG as fuel for transport vehicles through greenfield auto LPG dispensing stations.

The West Bengal government will raise a 93,000-strong disaster management force within the next one year, to respond to emergencies.

"Within the next one year, there will be a disaster management force of 93,000. They will be drawn from the NCC and are being trained in disaster management operations," Civil Defence Minister Sreekumar Mukherjee said today. Noting that not enough NCC cadets were joining the Defence Forces, Mukherjee said his department would launch an awareness campaign to encourage them to join the Armed Forces. "My department will utilise facilities at the Behala Flying Club, which belongs to the Airports Authority Of India, to train the NCC Air Wing cadets," he told newspersons. "There are two micro-light aircrafts belonging to NCC. They will also be utilised," he said during a function at the Behala Flying Club to felicitate NCC cadet Chandan Kumar Yadav, the first solo glider in the NCC's West Bengal and Sikkim directorate. After the function, the Minister was given an aerial view of the flying club and its vicinity, in an NCC glider. Yadav, a BSc. 3rd-year student from Naihati in North 24-Paraganas district, had completed 100 launches over the past one year, before being selected for the solo gliding. His trainer, Commanding Officer of NCC 22 Air Squadron, said that such training went a long way in preparing cadets for a career as pilots either with the Air Force or with commercial airlines. Bureau Report

Time's moved on and subsequent generations of New Delhi politicians were avowedly pro-nuclear. Successful atom-bomb tests were carried out, and the Agni missile programme moved forward. The first trial for Agni-III took place in July last year, but was unsuccessful. Now it appears that India will soon be able to menace its most powerful neighbours, though in fact relations with both Pakistan and China have grown significantly chummier in recent times.
Some analysts would suggest that in the absence of a standoff with any regional power, the primary usefulness of the Agni-III might be to enhance India's global status. Many in India feel that their nation should have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, like the UK, US, France, China, and Russia. Today's announcement may strengthen this lobby somewhat.

Under US pressure, New Delhi actually announced it was cancelling Agni in 1995. At that time India was unwilling to publicly admit that it had aspirations toward nuclear weapons, and the Agni rockets made little sense without atomic warheads.

The Indian government claims it has significantly increased its nuclear delivery capability, with a successful test today of the uprated Agni-III ballistic missile. it's FREE and...I have been refused credit I am applying for a mortgageI want to improve my credit rating I have just moved houseI want to check it's up to date I want to check my credit scoreI have not seen it before I'm concerned about identity fraud. According to the India Daily, defence officials said today's launch was successful, and that Agni-III would offer a range of 3,000km. That would put the main cities of China firmly under the Indian nuclear footprint; not to mention Iran and the former-Soviet 'Stans. Much of Pakistan is already within India's reach.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, on behalf of all the six IIMs, has sent a letter to the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry suggesting three dates to announce their first list of selected candidates without the Other Backward Castes (OBC) quota.

“We are ready to release the first list. In case the government recommends inclusion of the OBC quota, it can be done in the subsequent lists. We have to release the first list at the earliest to ensure that the academic session is not disturbed,” IIM Bangalore Director Prakash Apte said.

“We have submitted three dates and April 21 is one of them. We have given the government enough time to respond,” he added.

An IIM spokesperson, however, said if the government did not take a decision in time, they would be forced to release the list by the suggested dates.

However much the CPI(M), including the rather overly ebullient chief minister of West Bengal, may regret the police firing at Nandigram on March 14, the last word does not seem to get said on the issue.

Things have now come to a pass when as well-reputed a socialist as Surinder Mohan has called upon the Left-Front (LF) allies of the CPI(M) to withdraw their support to the government in West Bengal and begin to look to forge a “genuine Left movement after the defection of the CPI(M) from the camp.” Surinder Mohan, believing that “those who sell their loyalties to the affluent vested interests cannot dismount from the tiger they have decided to climb on, so easily,” considers the CPI(M) to have done so. (Mainstream, March 30-April 5, 07).

Let me say forthwith that, my own questions or reservations about the CPI(M)-led government’s policy directions notwithstanding, I stand staunchly by the LF. I do so because I hold its history and role over the last three decades as having been pivotal in modulating India’s centrist political culture to the good on a wide spectrum of national concerns, and for being indubitably the most credible organized force against majoritarian fascism.

International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato appealed Thursday for a breakthrough in global trade talks ahead of weekend meetings here due to be attended by WTO director general Pascal Lamy. A suicide bomber killed eight people in the Iraqi parliament on Thursday, the deadliest strike yet in Baghdad's heavily protected Green ZoneIn a brazen challenge to a two-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown, the bomber slipped through multiple armed checkpoints to reach the heart of the zone, a 10 sq km (4 sq miles) area housing parliament, government offices and many embassies.The $64-billion programme allowed Iraq, with the world's third-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and Iran, to sell oil to finance purchases of humanitarian goods, despite sanctions imposed after the 1991 Gulf War.Since then, there have been various investigations into allegations of bribes, kickbacks and oil smuggling.
Rato urged all the major players to go "the extra mile," as ministers from the United States, the European Union, Brazil and India met in New Delhi in a bid to salvage the World Trade Organization's "Doha" talks.For a deal to happen, there is a "special responsibility for leadership from certainly the US, Europe and Japan, but also for the large emerging economies," the IMF managing-director told a news conference.

Rato stressed that a breakthrough is required on rich powers' farming subsidies, but also on the industrial tariffs levied by major developing nations.

He called on negotiators "to make the final effort to give the world a very important push in the right direction, to consolidate this historical momentum of growth that is changing the lives of so many people in so many countries."

"What is needed now is the extra mile that is needed for an agreement."

On the other hand,a French probe into United Nations sanctions-busting in Iraq, which has implicated the head of energy giant Total , has ended and will probably lead to a trial, a judicial source said on Thursday.The judicial source said while the probe had ended, a date for a trial was still uncertain.A trial could be months or even years away as lawyers acting for Total Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie, and half a dozen other individuals targeted by the investigation, can request further inquiries, which would delay proceedings. Japan's Sony Corp. said Thursday that it hopes to launch the world's first organic electroluminescence flat-screen television later this year, aiming to take an early lead over its rivals.

Oh crumbs, there's our lower jaw hitting the floor again. Sony's 3mm thick OLED telly isn't just a prototype, it's going into production. This year.Not, alas, the 27in HD model we feasted our eyes on at CES (pictured) or we'd barely be able to write. Instead it'll be a mini 11-incher designed for, er, we're not sure what, but damn we want one.Buyers will be getting the world's slimmest telly, with outrageously wide viewing angles and a stunning one million to one contrast ratio. Then there's the kudos of being the first to go OLED, of course.Sure, the screen life will be limited and the price tag will be astronomical, but think of the glory. Essentials Sony OLED TVPrice: £TBAOn sale: '2007'Contact: www.sony.co.uk
Margerie, who ran Total's Middle East operations in the second half of the 1990s before taking the helm of the group's global exploration and production activities, was put under formal investigation in October 2006 as part of a probe into oil purchases made under the U.N. oil-for-food programme in Iraq.

U.S. military spokesman Major-General William Caldwell said initial reports showed eight had been killed and 20 wounded in the blast which tore through a cafe where deputies were having lunch. State television said three of the dead were lawmakers.

Meanwhile the U.S. military has paid at least $33 million (16.7 million pounds) to civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan for wrongful deaths and injuries, the Army said on Thursday after some of the claims were made public.Civilians said relatives were run over by tanks, shot dead at checkpoints or killed by stray bullets, according to claims that provided a glimpse of the hazards civilians faced as the United States and its allies battled insurgents in the two countries.Of 500 claims obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under an open government law, 200 were denied because the incident took place in combat situations -- for example, a 16-year-old Baghdad youth killed by a U.S. sniper who mistook his school bag for a dangerous object.

Some 165 incidents resulted in payments between $500 and $35,000.Of these, half were for wrongful death, injury or property damage. Half were "condolence" payments in the which military did not admit fault.

The Army paid $32,000 for six wrongful deaths in May 2006, when U.S. soldiers fired into a Kabul crowd that was rioting after a traffic accident. Among the dead were a boy selling pizza and a man carrying spare parts from a mechanic's shop.A stray howitzer round in Hib Hib, Iraq, in June 2006 killed three children and damaged several houses, resulting in a payment of $35,000.Other claims were denied because of a lack of civilian eyewitness, or because U.S. or allied troops did not report the incident.

Watchdog group Human Rights Watch commended the military for compensating civilians, but said the program should be administered more evenly and should also cover those killed by U.S. contractors.

Jet to buy Sahara for Rs 1,450 cr

The grounded Jet-Sahara deal finally took off today with the Naresh Goyal-promoted carrier agreeing to buy the Lucknow-based airline at a "lump sum price" of Rs 1,450 crore, ending a bitter nine-month legal battle."It is a good deal which will help us...The deal is 40 per cent cheaper than the one (Rs 2,300 crore deal) signed last year," Jet Chairman Naresh Goyal told reporters in Mumbai after an arbitration panel approved the revised offer.
http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7B32D55722-600C-4731-A263-3AC602653FED%7D&CATEGORYNAME=NATL

World Bank's Wolfowitz apologises in favouritism row
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Thursday he made "a mistake for which I am sorry" over his handling of the promotion and pay increase of his girlfriend and staffer Shaha Riza.
"I proposed to the board that they establish some mechanism to judge whether the agreement reached was a reasonable outcome," Wolfowitz said in a statement he read at a news conference, ahead of the upcoming meetings of finance ministers in Washington this weekend.

"I will accept any remedies they propose," he added.

Wolfowitz defended his actions to send Riza on an external assignment to the U.S. State Department soon after he joined the bank in 2005, saying he was in "uncharted waters" in his new job.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070412/tpl-uk-worldbank-wolfowitz-20b2d2f.html
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HINDU CONSPIRACY AGAINST GRANT OF CITIZENSHIP
20 million dalits from Bangladesh threaten to embrace Islam
Dr. JYOTIRMAY MANDAL, P-241, PRIYANKA NAGAR, RAJHARSH COLONY, KOLAR ROAD, BHOPAL - 462 042
As a result of partition and "independence" of India, Pakistan is created and given to the Muslims as their homeland. Consequently, Hindus, who were original inhabitants of the territory demarcated and allotted to Pakistan, had to leave their ancestral home and take shelter in the new-born "independent" India. The process of migration of Hindus from West Pakistan to India was rapid at the very beginning and almost all the Hindus from W. Pakistan came to India before the constitution of India came into force. However, the "Hindus" of East Pakistan were reluctant at the initial stage of "independence" to leave their ancestral homeland and very few had come to India before the constitution was made. But they gradually changed their mind and started migrating to India believing their Hindu brethren in India. The migration of "Hindus" from East Pakistan continued for long in many phases. Both the "Hindus" and Muslims fought together to liberate East Bengal from the Punjabi-dominated Pakistan and finally with the aid of Indian troops East Bengal was liberated and Bangladesh came into existence. But the problems of "Hindus" were not solved. Of those who migrated from East Bengal (now Bangladesh), 90% are Untouchables and that is why they have not yet been granted Indian citizenship. They are over 20 millions. They had to leave their homeland thinking they are "Hindu". Had they embraced Islam, they could have lived peacefully in Bangladesh and as a governing class. Believing that they are Hindu they came to Hindustan and have become objects of Hindu tyranny. The Hindu rulers of India declared them as illegal migrants and not permitted to attain Indian citizenship. For the Bengali Untouchables it was a jump from frying pan into fire. I have said this in DV many times but Hindu the stone- heart does not melt.

The Hindu brothers of India are so hostile to our people that a Hindu organisation of Assam had challenged the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act 1983, in the Supreme Court. In 2003, the BJP Govt. brought a Bill to amend the Citizenship Act to deprive the Bengali migrants of East Bengal (now Bangladesh), who are Untouchables, the Indian citizenship. L.K. Advani initiated the Bill. Bengali Hindu leader Pranab Mukherjee supported it. This is how the Hindu leaders of India treated us as enemies.

The Supreme Court in its judgment on IMDT Act has poured petrol on the burning fire. The verdict on the is clearly anti-Dalit. The court has not deeply thought of the impact of its judgment on the mankind as a whole.

Over 20 millions of Bengali-speaking "Hindus" of Bengal origin have been made destitute, homeless gypsy. What offence these people have committed to mankind has never been explained by any of the authorities for which such a drastic action against them has been directed to be taken. The court makes over 20 million persons destitute for the sake of Hindu religion. Hindu religion has turned 20 million people to be destitutes and foreigners in India. If the govt. implements amended Citizenship Act and Supreme Court's direction to detect illegal migrants, these people of Bengal origin, who lost their land for the sake of political gains to a micro-minority of Hindu and Muslim communities, will lose their very natural rights as human beings. Hence if a community or class of people, who have already lost their ancestral homeland due to religious clash and partition of country as political solution are not granted citizenship of the country they took shelter in, to save their lives and religion, they will become outcast of the civilized humanity. They may turn to anarchy as a result of the thoughtless, arrogant and despotic enactment of parliament and merciless judgment of the Supreme Court. If the govt. sticks to the policy of depriving these millions of people, majority of whom are Dalits, from citizenship of India, they may revolt against it and endanger to Hindu religion itself. They will hold Hindu religion and Hindu rulers responsible for their distress. They may even renounce Hinduism and embrace Islam to gain support to establish their right.

DV May 1, 2005 p.22: "Conspiracy against Bengali Dalits: 2-crores facing genocide?".

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IMDT Act to be amended

New Delhi: The Centre will not bring in a new law in the place of the scrapped Illegal Migrant (Determination by Tribunals Act, 1983) ahead of the Assembly elections in Assam. The term of the Assembly expires in May. Instead, the Govt. of India will amend the Foreigners Act to ensure a fair hearing to a person before declaring him or her foreigner. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, here on Feb.10, 2006. (Hindu, Feb.11, 2006).

__SEZ not at tears of ryots: Identify barren land
Agitation against the new steel plant of Posco company under Special Economic Zone in Orissa has started. Posco plant is planned at village Ghinakia near Jagatpur, 10 km from capital Bhubaneshwar. Chief Minister Navin Patnaik is facing a troublous time. The villagers do not want to give their agricultural land to this Korean based company. Whereas Patnaik is hopeful about the project. On Wednesday, the local residents and police had hot arguments and tension prevailed there. The villagers created hurdles in entry of government officials and security forces into the village. Similar to Nandigram village in West Bengal, the situation in this Orissa village is going to become serious over the Posco project. The residents have formed Posco protest Sangram Samiti whose president is touring from village to village, appealing to the people to protest till death. At present the residents of Ghinakia are giving support to this protest. At the same time the MP government has received new directives about SEZ and is on the horns of a dilemma. According to new directives, for the establishment of industry, now the industrialists would have to talk directly to the farmers or landowners. It is necessary not to take fertile land for the purpose of SEZ. The government should avoid seizing farmers' lands. If the situation is inevitable then proper compensation should be given to the farmers against their land. Though there was arrangement for compensation of land which was under submergance areas of dams but no farmer was satisfied with this compensation. There are several examples where the farmers did not get compensation. It is well known that the state has a large tract of barren land. Specially, the forest department has large tracts of land where no plant grows. Such land is in Bhind and Morena districts. Along with this in other parts of the state there are such barren lands. These lands should be made fertile. It is noticeable that the main resources are easily available here to establish industries. The aim of SEZ is to develop the area and to provide employment but it should not be done at the tears of farmers.
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Slow death of N.E. people: victims of hinduisation
A D.V. MEMBER FROM GUWAHATI (ADDRESS WITHHELD)
In North-East India, the Bodos were hinduised (enslaved) in the 18th century and now many of them have forgotten their own surname. Their actual surnames have been replaced by the word Brahma. By the last part of the 17th century the Ahoms were hinduised. Although they ruled Assam for 600 years, today they are reduced to shudras and OBCs. The Dimasas, a branch of the Bodos, were hinduised in the 18th century by the Bengali Brahmins and now most of them identify themselves as Barmans, and they lost their kingdom. They have forgotten their own surnames.

The Kokboroks of Tripura were hinduised by the Bengali Brahmins in the 17th century. Their surnames were replaced by the word Debbarman. The name of their kingdom Tuipa was also changed to Tripura and occupied by the Bengalis. Kokboroks are now only 27 % in their own state.

The Meeteis of Manipur were hinduised in the 17th century by the Bengali Brahmins. Their history was twisted. They were made to believe themselves to be Aryans and made to discard their own surnames and called themselves "Singh", not realizing that however strong a lion may be it is an animal. Srimanta Sankardev also converted many Karbis and other Mongolian tribes people into Hindus.

They were made to discard their own names and surnames. They were made to identify themselves as Koch and Saranias. They have forgotten their own language, culture, history and tradition but this process of submersion has been termed as assimilation.

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Hinduisation means, in fact, enslavement of a people. Brahminical people have been systematically doing it for centuries. The single largest victims of this enslavement drive are the Untouchables (Dalits) comprising 20% of the Indian population. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was the first person to check this trend by giving them a separate identity. The NE people must learn from Dalits and the Dalit Voice will tell them how to fight the Hindu terrorists — EDITOR.

LG and Brightstar to Partner for Distribution of LG GSM Mobile Business in India for Network Operators

LG Electronics, a leading worldwide provider of advanced wireless handsets and accessories and Brightstar Corp., the largest wireless distribution and supply chain solutions company in the world, have announced their distribution partnership for LG GSM mobile devices in India for sales through Network Operators.

Mr. H.S. Bhatia - Business Group Head, LG GSM Mobiles said, Brightstar has been appointed as the National Distributor for LG GSM mobile handsets for Operator Bundling Sales of GSM Network Operators.

According to industry and government analysts, India is one of the fastest growing wireless markets in the world. The Indian market had 146.1 million wireless users in 2006, the market has grown rapidly to a base of 154.78 million wireless users by Feb 2007. By 2010, that number is predicted to rise to over 385 million.
http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/04/12/businesswire20070412005812r1.html
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RSS bid to swallow Budhism
PRATAP TAMBAY
Dalits are still struggling to understand the exact significance of the attempts of RSS to appropriate the Ambedkarite plank. It is wrong to consider that the "intuitive emotional distrust" of Ambedkarite masses will protect Dalits from such attempts. Let me try to explain my understanding of their strategy.

1. While evolving their "Hindutva plank" to make it appealing to Dalits, Hindutva has had to concede some ground to Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit movement. I refer to the fact that Meera Nanda and Dattopant Thengdi admit that Dr. Ambedkar represents an unparalleled intellectual and philosophical challenge to Hindu culture, ignoring which is not an option at all.

2. That our Dalit movement has not yet managed to pose the above challenge adequately in practice by correctly following the prescribed medicines of the learned Doctor Ambedkar is a tragedy.

Currently Dalits get defined by their non-Hindu stances and not by the positive content of their own internal culture and values. Only by rigorous practice of their "cleaned-up" religions, will the right values emerge in the social life of Dalits. And only when these social values emerge, will Dalits become a self-sufficient culture, independent of and disinterested in Hinduism. When such a role model Budhist (and other rational anti-caste religions) society emerges in reality, comfortable with its past, present and future and actually starts impacting popular Indian culture through books, movies, TV-serials in a manner, which is fully independent of the "Hindu", that will be the real day when every Hindu will start wanting to be a Baudh.

RSS fears: That will be the master-stroke of Dr. Ambedkar. This is the fear of people like Dattopant. These fears might not come true, if Dalits focus on Hindu-hatred alone and do not practice the excellent religion bequeathed to us by Dr. Ambedkar. There is nothing that Dr. Ambedkar's legacy cannot give Dalits, if only they imbibe his legacy in thought, speech and action. It will bring social, economic and political power.

3. The risk of RSS succeeding in stealing the Ambedkarite plank is high and the implications can be drastic for the movement.

See the following article for example: http://www.hvk.org/articles/0500/53.html

There are a few other books about initiatives of SSM and the Dattopant Thengdi team of people. Some material is available online.

Corrupt Dalit leaders: RSS is systematically destroying the credibility of the corrupt leaders among Dalits by exposing them. I predict that this trend will only accelerate.

And if Dalits do not start practising Ambedkarite Budhism, I predict that it will not take long to see the fellows like Bhikuji Idate create a strong Ambedkarite Budhist contingent inside the RSS with some fancy theory to fit hitch them to the Hindutva bandwagon.

Once this happens, the radical independence of the Dalit “Budhist” plank from the Hindutva bandwagon will be lost. If even a few senior Dalit Budhist leaders get misguided into the RSS flock due to lack of social understanding, the dangers are massive. If this happens, the main reason why Dr. Ambedkar chose Budhi

Dalit Voice

Palash Biswas

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I could not go to New Delhi to attend Dalit Voice Silver Jubilee Ceremony due to personals reasons. I missed a great opportunity of interactions with DV readership! I am unlucky.

I wrote to DV editor VTR:

Congratulations for the occasion!
I am proud of the DV team and feel extremely honoured being invited. But I have some prior engagements and would be missing the opportunity.
But I am always with the team.
It is high time to go on all out attack on the Hindu Zionist Global order, the Neo liberalism and the postmodern Manusmriti.
Nandigram has become a launching pad for Global resistance which should be made possible with a worldwide Dalit movement!
I believe that Dalit Voice will lead us.
Palash Biswas
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Reservation not the only solution for Dalits: Buddhadev
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1130168955.cms

West Bengal chief minister Bbuddhadev Bhattacharjee on Wednesday said reservation was not the only way for liberation of dalits, but the present policy of reservation in the fields of employment and education would not be withdrawn. "we leftists think that reservation is not the only way of liberating dalits. what we need is extensive land reforms in eliminating the evils of feudalism and consequent casteist vices," bhattacharjee told a function here organised by dalit intellectuals to felicitate ministers and mlas of the sixth left front belonging to the backward classes. the chief minister, however, made it clear that his government had no immediate plans to do away with the present policy of reservation in the field of education and employment. the school service commission and college service commission had been instructed accordingly. stating that india still suffered from the dual evils of feudalism and capitalism, he said, this gave rise to caste related problems. "we find, therefore, that some parties in north india are indulging in casteist politics. they don't use economic yardsticks to measure backwardness. the bjp, on the other hand, is playing their game on the basis of communalism and fundamentalism. this is perversion," he said.

Many Dalit groups, taking their cue from civil liberties organizations, ignore much of the economic ground for untouchability. Communist leader Brinda Karat notes that “only Communist inspired movements, enabled by the active participation of Dalits, have led to concrete gains against casteism.” In West Bengal, she shows, the Communist government initiated land reform that now forms “the backbone of Dalit self-respect and dignity in the State.”
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Caste identity" kills BJP & Shiv Sena
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Bangalore: Did we not say this? "Let them go on uniting us in the name of Hindu but we will go on dividing them in the name of caste". This is called "caste identity". And its latest victim is the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) and its tiny tail, the Hindu terrorist party of Shiv Sena.

Did not DV prove right? Is this not the "miracle of caste identity?"

The Brahminical people have a monopoly on their media. Hence we can do nothing to fight (forget about defeating) the reckless hinduisation (enslavement) of our people. So the cheapest, easiest and the most well understood method is "caste identity" which is already in our blood. Simple.

Unfortunately, DV circulation is not catching up in West Bengal. Otherwise by this time we could have killed the Manuwadi Marxists (CPM) of Bengal.

Namasudras warned: The worst victims of CPM are the Dalits (Namasudras) and Muslims.

If the Untouchable Namasudra — who form a formidable state population — study our "caste identity" thesis, within three years we can finish the Bhadralok rule of Brahmins, Baidyas and Kayasths (less 10%).

We have held "caste identity" seminars in cowbelt states, Punjab, Orissa, AP. The Bombay meeting is fixed for Jan.29. But the best of our efforts to have one in Calcutta have failed.

Namasudra intellectuals in Calcutta must come forward and Muslims will join us. Once the Namasudras and Muslims withdraw support from the CPM,the Manuwadi govt. led by the Bengali Brahmin will collapse.

Will the Namasudras of Calcutta wake up?

World Prout Assembly

Dalits In Pakistan

Book Review By Yoginder Sikand

In a speech in 1944, Satyani writes, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, declared that the Muslim League would protect the rights of the Dalits, and he assured them of full security. Accordingly, Jogendra Nath Mondal, a Dalit from East Bengal, was appointed as the leader of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan and the first Law Minister of the country. This suggests, Satyani says, that Jinnah was genuine in his concern for the Dalits of Pakistan. However, things began to change after Jinnah's death, and in 1953 Mondal resigned from the Cabinet and migrated to India. This was an indication of the growing intolerance towards minorities in post-Jinnah Pakistan. Today, as Satyani shows, minorities lead a bleak existence in Pakistan, the worst sufferers among them being the country's Dalits.

Following the Partition of India, Satyani says, most Hindus living in what is now Pakistan migrated to India. The vast majority of those who stayed back in Pakistan were Dalits. In the years after the Partition, he writes, there has been a steady migration of Hindus to India, especially in the immediate aftermath of the 1965 and 1971 wars between India and Pakistan. The destruction of the Babri Masjid in India in 1992 and the ensuing massacre of Muslims in different parts of India by Hindutva extremists, led to a heightening of insecurity among the Pakistani Hindus, causing a sizeable number of them to migrate to India. Most of these migrants were 'upper' caste Hindus. Lacking money and resources, Dalits in Pakistan were unable to make the same choice. In addition, Satyani writes, 'The Dalits are so caught up with mere day-to-day survival issues that Hindu-Muslim conflicts or Pakistan-India disputes are not as important for them as they are for rich 'upper' caste Hindus'. To add to this probably is the fact that life for Dalits in India is hardly better than in Pakistan.

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Dalits Ask For Justice In West Bengal

By V.B.Rawat

“ If I speak untruth, I can survive,
If I speak the truth,
It will be Explosive’

Bulleh Shah

The Baul singers famous for love songs provide a musical odyssey to otherwise lackluster journey from Kolkata to Shantiniketan. The chaotic Howarah station wherefrom the train Vishwabharati Express left for Shantiniketan, reflected the old glory of Kolkata, the financial capital of the country. Today, thanks to the 30 years rule of the progressive left, Kolkata just live in its past. It is a city unlike other metros where the poor can afford to live, they say in their support of existing system yet failed to answer as why the man-pulling rickshaw is still one of the most familiar sights in this ‘city of joy.’

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Marxist allows Not any Dalit Movement in Bengal. Whatever movement is allowed , it has to be under Party surveillance. Dalit movement must be guided by Party as wel as Brahminical Intelligentsia. All dalit leaders and intellectuals in Bengal enjoy IN- Law status and this is why each of them is silent event after Nandigram Genocide. They could not retaliate Marichjhapi Massacre even after three full decades!

Dalit Sahity Sanstha has joined the Nandigram Agitation! Defying Marxist Brahminical rule, dalit writers, poets and intellectuals have followed suit with Shilppee, Sanskriti Karmee Buddhijeevi Manch. Other day I had a prolonged discussions with Manohar Mauli Biswas, spokes person of Dalit Sahitya Sanstha in Bengal. he accused that the Marxists tried their best to hijack dalit Movement in Bengal. He alleged that Dalit mobilisation is always undermined by Dalit Marxist Cadres.

I would not have been involved with Dalit movement at all , if I had been in North India. It is West Bengal where I realised what Dalit life means. We never faced any discrimination out of Bengal, and in fact, most of my best friends are Brahman writers and intellectuals. Two most powerful Brahman leaders from Nainital ND tiwari and KC Pant always supported the Bengali refugees in UP and my father had a very close relationship with both of them! Though I knew from the beginning that they used my father to ensure en block support of Bengali Vote Bank in undivided UP which made their national political career. Because a very few helpless out caste Brahmans were there in Bengali Refugee colonies and majority, almost all people belonged to Dalit castes , I had no opportunity to feel the Brahminical hatred in my heart. More over my primary teacher Pitambar Pant to GIC, Nainital teacher Tarachandra Tripathi tried their best to groom me. Whatever I managed to become , it was possible for the love and support of these two Brahmins.

In GIC, Nainital first year Half yearly examinations, Hindi lecturer Tripathi stumbled to my answer book and called me to enquire my background . from that very day he adopted me. He advised me to learn English as it has to be the best tool to fight for underclasses. He advised me to write in Hindi, as he thought that without social interactions and involvement no creative work is possible. i had been in his home in B.A. previous days. He was the man who annihilated all illusions about Gandhism, Sangh Parivar, Sex, perversion, Lohia and socialism. He guided me to know Marxism on academic line. He was the man who taught me to read world classics and Indian literature. He made me read communist Manifesto and Psycho analysis, all political theories and economy!

He was a follower of Charvak! He was known as Kautilya for his wisdom. He advised me to read Rahul Sankrityayan. He made me a keen student of History.

But like all Marxists, he never advised me to read Ambedkar. It was out of study circle list. Whatever I used to read in those days, was nothing about Manusmriti ridden Indian Brahminical system. though my Guru always advised me how to fight Brahaminism!

There was no way to know the plights of Dalits in India. As Bengali refugees are deprived of citizenship and reservation, I had no way to know the social status of my people. They were liberated fro m the Brahman Dominated East Bengal Society and they never remembered the gloomy days of the past! So unaware was I! My people thought that they are banfied Indians! They were mostly illiterate and never cared for jobs outside village. whoever was educated , got the job easily. whenever my father demanded reservation, majority opposed as they hated Dalit Status!

But my father used to say that all refugees are Dalits. Uprooted from geography and history, life and livelihood has made all refugees dalit. Simply I disagreed.

I believed in class struggle. But my father Pulin Kumar Biswas led the Terai Peasant`s uprising and always had been an all India Refugee leader, he knew all about Communist betrayals. He always cursed Jyoti Basu and Bengal Brahman Marxists. In seventies, during my schooling and college days, my generation was spellbound either by Thundering Spring or by Total revolution of JP! We never had the patience to learn from the experiences of older people.After Dhimri Block, my father was almost despised Communists! He always declared that these communists never mean Revolution. Contrarily, they undermine revolution itself!
He was associated with Jyoti Basu and Jogendra Nath Mandal both.
But I was never ready to listen.

Virtually there was no communication between us as ideologically we were quite different!

My father is no more. He always emphasised to be with the roots! I was rather involved in Nationality movements. Uttarkhand and Jharkhand. I supported AASU and AGP! I was also deeply involved in Chipko movement. But I had never been involved in any refugee movement. Though I knew everything. I drafted all his correspondance since my childhood as he was not at home in Hindi!

Had my father been alive, he would have been a happier man now.
I am involved deeply in refugee movement because it is his legacy.
I am disillusioned with Communist Movement in India. Whatever was left, Nandigram washed that out. My Marxist friends never supported the helpless Bengali refugees when they needed it most. I could not tolerate this. i saw with shock how the citizenship amendment bill was passed in Parliament with Left Support!

Landing in Bengal, I was surrownded by dominating Brahmins all round. My career as a professional was sabotaged as they do not leave any space for underclass advocating.
Now, I know well what I am. I learnt Jogendra Nath Mandal, Ambedkar and realities of partition! I know well the Dalit Movement in India and , moreover, the history of persecution and enslavement.
Thus, I satnd by VTR and am ready to face any consequence!

Urgent Appeals Desk -- Hunger Alert
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
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DETAILED INFORMATION:

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received a reply from the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) on 3 December 2004 in regards to a letter sent by the AHRC detailing the eviction of some thousands of persons from Bellilious Park, Howrah, greater Kolkata, West Bengal. The circumstances of that eviction were detailed in an original urgent appeal (FA-27-2003). The starvation of a young child due to the eviction was described in subsequent updates (UP-54-2003, UP-03-2004). A brief reminder on the case can also be found below.

Party games
YOGENDRA YADAVPosted online: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 0000 hrs Print EmailBetween Nandigram and a party that swears by human rights and lofty democratic ideals lies vast hypocrisy

Nandigram did not surprise me. I was anguished and angry but not surprised. I had heard the story of Alipurduar from Jugal Kishore Raybir.

This dalit activist, a believer in Gandhian non-violence, was the founder of UTJAS, (Uttar Bango Tapsili Jati O Adibasi Sangathan) an organisation of dalits and adivasis of north Bengal. Through the 1980s it demanded greater regional autonomy and justice for sons of the soil. Not only did the government turn a deaf ear, the ruling party launched an offensive against them, branding them ‘separatist’ or ‘bichhinatabadi’.

The story of Alipurduar goes back to January 10 1987, twenty years before Nandigram. On that day, UTJAS had organised a rally of what they estimated to be about 50,000 people in Alipurduar, the headquarters of Cooch Behar district. As the rally started, they noticed something unusual: The police was nowhere in sight. Soon the rallyists found themselves surrounded by and under attack from the armed cadre of the CPM. The rally was dispersed as unarmed protesters were beaten and chased. The police surfaced, only to arrest the victims, once the party cadre had finished their job.

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YOGENDRA YADAVPosted online: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 0000 hrs Print EmailKanshi Ram doesn’t leave behind a surefooted BSP, but he gave Dalit politics a bold new script

I remembered that election rally as I heard the news of Kanshi Ram’s passing away. It was ten years ago, somewhere in eastern UP, just before the assembly elections. I can still see thousands of faces of the visibly poor and hundreds of bicycles that dotted the rally venue. I remember speaking to this man who had cycled — with two children on the bar, wife on the carrier — for nearly 40 km to have a ‘darshan’ of ‘saheb’. This, I learnt, was not uncommon. Kanshi Ram spoke for a few minutes and did not say anything I remember now. No rabble rousing, no outlandish promises. He did what he often used to do: he took out his pen, held it vertically and said this is what our society was like. Then he turned it horizontal and said this is what he wants society to be like. These simple words empowered the audience. Like all great political leaders in our country, his charisma did not depend upon his speech. He communicated before he spoke.
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In his letter to the AHRC, R. N. Sengupta, the chairman of the IRCS in the state of West Bengal, says that

"any human distress is of concern to the Red Cross Society...But, since in West Bengal, there is an organization for looking into the violation of human rights in any form viz the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, we have thought it desirable to send the papers to the Chairman, West Bengal Human Rights Commission for taking necessary action in the matter...".

In a letter to the chairman, the AHRC has replied that clearly the IRCS is evading its responsibility in a matter of direct concern to it as a member of an international network aiming to promote "humanitarian principles and values" and "health and care in the community". In fact, these very words were taken from the IRCS website. It added that the West Bengal Human Rights Commission has for a long time been informed about the case but done nothing.

The AHRC also made a press release expressing its disappointment at the response of the Red Cross to the urgent need for its intervention to assist the victims of the Bellilious Park eviction (AHRC-PL-106-2004).?
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History of Bangla
The ancient, medieval, and colonial history of Bangladesh covers a period from antiquity to 1947, when India was partitioned. So the history of Bangladesh prior to 1947 is a history of India of which Bangladesh was a part. In fact, the history of India is a history of Bengal for the large part. Today Bangladesh is an independent nation within the Indian subcontinent, but is less than half of the old Bengal or Bangla.

A Lost History

Many assume that South India and Bengal were backwaters because of the lack of interest of the Aryan scriptures in them. They were not backwaters but simply they were non-Aryans. Since Bangla and South India were not Aryan, they are not highlighted in the history of the Aryans or North India. However, since there were powerful kingdoms and cities in Bangla that were in close proximity to the Aryans, Bangla is mentioned somewhat. Also because of Buddha's travellings, there are some more references. (Note: the earliest references are mostly disdainful. If anyone travelled to the Drabir land, then their would be pennances and ritual sacrifices). Dance forms seem to have originated in Drabir India. South Indians have given us several unique dance forms and Gaur of Bangla has also given us unique dance forms. From the ruins of ancient Indus civilization we find dancing girl figurines which indicate the origin of the dances of India.

Even the ancient texts, however, whether intentionally or not, reveal the greatness of Bangla. In Bhishma-parban, the Bangalee kings heroically face attacks from the Pandus or conquerors of Upper India. There is a description of the encounters between the Pandus and the mighty ruler of the Bangas. While some of the Bangalee kings fought on elephants, others rode on ocean-bred steeds of the hue of the moon. What were these ocean bred steeds of the hue of the moon? Were they ships? In the very ancient times, Pundra, Gaur (Gaud or Garh), Rarh (Radha, Ladha), Sumha, Bajra (Brahma), Tamralipti, Samatata, Banga and Anga comprised Bangla. At one time Gaur was the name used for the Bangla region but the name Banga later became popular. This might reflect the prominence of the regions in a period whose history is lost. Banga is first mentioned in the Aiterya Aranyaka, a Hindu scripture. The book mentions Banga as a non-Aryan (Drabir) nation. In the Aitareya Brahma, the people of Pundra tribe (along with Andhra, Shabara, Mulinda and Mutiba tribes) is called dasyu, clearly non-Aryan or Drabir.
Bangla is also mentioned in the Mahabharat, one of the four great epics. In the great war of Kurukshetra described in the Mahabharat, a Bangalee king fought for the Kaurabs (Kaurabs are supposed to be the villains. They are most probably Aryans and so this might show the beginings of Aryan-Drabir alliance makings.). In another instance, King Basudeb of Gaur (old name for Bangla) fought with Krishna in Dwarka, a port city in Gujarat on the western part of India. The Mahabharat also mentions three Bangalee princes who try for the hand of princess Draupadi. In this epic, some Bangalees are mentioned as untouchables. These were the coastal tribes of Bangla who were called Mlechchha. All the tribes in Bangla (and Kalinga, a South East Indian empire and even Magadh and Anga (Bangla) were considered non-Aryan. Banga and Kalinga were Drabir even in Mahabir's time and Aryanization only began with Ashok when part of it was under the Mauryan empire. As Aryanization penetrated into Manu classified Bangla (Pundra), Shaka and Drabira as fallen Kshatryias (Kshatriyas were the warior or ruling caste). This was an attempt to incorporate them into the Aryan caste system. Towards Arjun's time, Mahabharat and the Bayu and Matsyapuranas also call Bangalees (Pundra and Banga, Sumhas) Kshatriyas. And later the Jaina Pragyapana calls Bangaless (Banga and Rarh) Aryans signifying the beginning of absorption. It was probably then that the caste system became rigid and oppressive to maintain segregation.

"The Culture of India is pre-Aryan in origin. As in Greece, the conquered countries civilized the conquerors. The Aryan Indian owed his civilization and his degeneration to the Dravidians as the Aryan Greek to the Mycaeneans." -- Hall: Ancient History of the Near East

It was only during the Gupta rule around the 4th century period that Aryanization fully penetrates Bangla. The caste structure is instilled and Brahmans (highest caste) are mentioned. Batsyan in his Kamsutra (the bible of sex) mentions Brahmans in Bengal. Vatsayana talks about handsome Bangalees who painted their nails to attract girls. Ancient Bangalee men painted their nails to attract girls. This is the earliest mention of coloring nails. In the ancient Indus, girls used lipstick which is also another first use.

Prehistory: Introduction

The modern state of Bangladesh officially came into existence through a people's liberation war in 1971. Bangladesh is the eastern part of Bangla. Bangladesh (East Bangla) and West Bangla (India) are the same nation and together they once formed the major part of Bangla (Banga or Gaur). There were some other parts of Bangla though that are no longer within East or West Bangla. Bangla was divided into East and West parts by the British, first in 1905, but it proved unpopular and was reversed in 1911. Later during the partition of India, rich Muslim landlords in the East supported the division. So again since 1947, Bangla is divided into at least two parts. Bangla was ultimately ruined by this division and today there are even those who have
been culturally so much derooted that they feel that the people of the other Bangla are foreigners! That is one of the greatest achievement of British imperialism. Bangla was one of the most important centres of India and now it is a ruined nation no longer a potential threat to the west. Its long and great history is forgotten by the world and also many Bangalees today. Even though Bangladesh is a modern state, her history can be traced back to about 1000 BC. There are many theories about the origin of the name Banga or Bangla. Some linguists believe that the name originates from the Tibetan word, "Bans" which means wet or moist and Banga (Bengal) is a wet country crisscrossed by a thousand rivers and washed by monsoons and floods from the Himalayas. Some others believe that the name originated from the Bodo (original Asamese in North Eastern India) "Bang La" which means wide plains. This theory is extremely plausible. Another school suggests the name comes from the name of Prince Banga. According to legend, Prince Banga, the son of King Bali and Queen Sudeshna of the Lunar dynasty was the first to colonise Bangla. What is probably the real root is from the name of the original people of Bangla. This also is taken from legend. One of the tribes who according to a claim emerged from the Indus Civilization after its demise had entered the plains of Bengal while others went elsewhere. They were called the Bong tribe and spoke Dravidian. We know from many ancient Aryan texts of a tribe called Banga that existed in that region.

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Jogendra Nath Mandal
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Jogendra Nath Mandal (Bangla: ???????????? ?????) (1906–1956) was a Pakistani and Indian politician of Hindu Scheduled Caste and Bengali background, and a close follower of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a senior Dalit politician.

[edit] Political career
Mandal became a strong critic of mainstream political parties such as the Indian National Congress, which he saw as lukewarm in its commitment to secure Dalit political rights. He strongly supported the British proposal made in 1934 to grant separate electorate voting system for Dalits - a plan widely criticized for creating political divisions within Hindu society. Mandal attacked the Congress for its opposition, as well as the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's fast-unto-death in opposition to the plan, which he believed was inherently divisive and would create conflicts between Hindus. When Dr. Ambedkar agreed with Gandhi, the Congress and Hindu community leaders to reject the plan in favour of intensified social reform and increased representation within the Congress, Mandal was disillusioned.

A critic of the Congress, Mandal grew close to Muslim politician Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his Muslim League. Mandal increasingly subscribed to Jinnah's views and leadership, which he believed would secure extensive rights for religious and ethnic minorities, as well as socially depressed classes across India. In 1936, he was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly as a leader of a Dalit bloc and linked with the League. Mandal continued to support Jinnah and the League despite its adoption of a demand in 1940 for a separate Muslim state called Pakistan, and its Direct Action Day agitation in 1946, which degenerated into widespread communal violence. Mandal agreed with the League's rejection of the plans proposed by the British Cabinet Mission to transfer power to Indians, citing insufficient power for the League and minorities. When the League later agreed to enter the interim government in a coalition with the Congress, Mandal was nominated by the League to head the law ministry. This nomination of a Hindu by an avowedly Muslim party was strongly criticized across the political spectrum as a devious reaction to the rejection of Jinnah's demand for the exclusive right to appoint Muslims.

[edit] Political career in Pakistan
Following the partition of India on August 15, 1947 Mandal became a member and temporary chairman of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, and agreed to serve as the new state's first Minister for Law and Labour - becoming the highest-ranking Hindu member of the government. From 1947 to 1950 he would live in the port city of Karachi, which became Pakistan's capital. Mandal strongly supported Jinnah's ideal of a secular state in Pakistan.

However, Mandal grew increasingly disillusioned with Pakistan following the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and a communal crisis in East Pakistan, where his origins lay, and where close to 4 million Hindus were forced to flee into India within the space of a few years. When Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan publicly supported a proposal to make Islam the official state religion, Mandal denounced it as a rejection of Jinnah's secular vision for Pakistan. Mandal continued to attack the proposed Objectives Resolution, which outlined an Islamic state as completely disregarding the rights of religious and ethnic minorities. He grew increasingly isolated, and came increasingly under verbal and physical attack; fleeing to Kolkata, he sent his letter of resignation in October 1950. In his resignation letter, he openly assailed Pakistani politicians for disregarding the rights and future of minorities, as well as the vision of Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [1]

[edit] Criticism
Mandal returned to India in 1950 and spent his final years in the state of West Bengal. He is intensely criticized by contemporary historians and scholars for supporting Jinnah, a politician avowed solely to Muslim interests, and for supporting the creation of Pakistan, where non-Muslim communities were disenfranchised and discriminated against. Without Mandal's carrying of the significant Scheduled Caste Hindu votes in Bengal in the 1946 elections, it is unlikely that Pakistan would have come into being in the form that it did in 1947. His harshest critics include both secular and Hindutva politicians who assail him for acting as a stooge for Jinnah's divisive communal politics. However, Mandal is respected by many segments of the Dalit community for his work and firm commitment to securing Dalit political rights and representation.

THUS SPAKE AMBEDKAR
Golden words : Gandhi's treachery against Dalits
This will show why I insist that there is no use of discussing the question until the actual proposals of the Mahatma are put forth.

I must, however, point out that I cannot accept the assurances of the Mahatma that he and his Congress will do the needful. I cannot leave so important a question as the protection of my people to conventions and understandings. The Mahatma is not an immortal person, and the Congress, assuming it is not a malevolent force, is not to have an abiding existence. There have been many Mahatmas in India whose sole object was to remove Untouchability and to elevate and absorb the Depressed Classes; but every one of them has failed in his mission. Mahatmas have come and Mahatmas have gone. But the Untouchables have remained as Untouchables.

I have enough experience of the pace of reform and the faith of Hindu reformers in the conflicts that have taken place at Mahad and Nasik, to say that no well-wisher of the Depressed Classes will ever consent to allow the uplift of the Depressed Classes to rest upon such treacherous shoulders. Reformers who in moments of crisis prefer to sacrifice their principles rather than hurt the feelings of their kindred, can be of no use to the Depressed Classes.

I am, therefore, bound to insist upon a Statutory Guarantee for the protection of my people. If Mr. Gandhi wishes to have the Communal Award altered, it is for him to put forth his proposals and to prove that they give a better guarantee than has been given to us under the Award.

I hope that the Mahatma will desist from carrying out the extreme step contemplated by him. We mean no harm to the Hindu society when we demand Separate Electorates. If we choose Separate Electorates we do so in order to avoid the total dependence on the sweet will of the caste Hindus in matters affecting our destiny. Like the Mahatma we also claim our right to err, and we expect him not to deprive us of that right. His determination to fast himself unto death is worthy of a far better cause. I could have understood the propriety of the Mahatma contemplating such extreme step for stopping riots between Hindus and Mohammedans or between the Depressed Classes and the Hindus or for any other national cause. It certainly cannot improve the lot of the Depressed Classes. Whether he knows it or not the Mahatma's act will result in nothing but terrorism by his followers against the Depressed Classes all over the country.

Coercion of this sort will not win the Depressed Classes to the Hindu fold if they are determined to go out. And if the Mahatma chooses to ask the Depressed Classes to make a choice between Hindu faith and possession of political power I am quite sure that the Depressed Classes will choose political power and save the Mahatma f