Analysis

Bihar: Unite Caste in The State And Break India With No Regret

The new Bihar census begins with the caste-based head count. Democracy may ask the question – Is this going to help the grand coalition consolidate its social support base by fulfilling a promise to the OBCs and EBCs?

Frightened by the freedom struggle of 1857, the British made two big conspiracies to break the unity of India. Firstly, they spread the trap of caste census, and secondly, they spread the difference between Hindus and Muslims. This caste census was stopped in 1931 due to the fierce opposition of Congress and Gandhiji, but Hindu-Muslim communalism divided the country into two pieces in 1947.

Congress had also tried the gimmick

The previous government of Manmohan Singh had started the caste census again, and then Congress President Sonia Gandhi had to stop that census midway. When Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014, he banned the publication of those incomplete caste figures, but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has restarted that break-India census in Bihar.

‘Practical’ politics by Nitish Kumar

As a politician, Nitish Kumar is too practical to be an appropriate top leader of the state. If he had started this census to help the poor families of Bihar, he would have gotten the census done only for the poor. There is no consideration of caste and religion in it, but when the leaders start using caste and religion as a vote bank, social unity is at stake.

Why not a Caste-Todo movement?

Instead of resorting to these anti-national means, a courageous leader like Nitish Kumar should have started a caste-todo movement like he has taken the bold step of liquor prohibition in Bihar. His respect then would have been more than that of any President or Prime Minister of India. He would have become Yug Purush. But politics corrupts politicians and they forget what they are there for.

No one has the guts in India

No leader of the country has the guts to clearly oppose this India-todo census, because basically everyone is a politician now, not a social servant. 500 crores would be spent in this census and five and a half lakh people together will get it completed. There are more than 250 major castes in Bihar along with thousands of sub-castes within them. A high caste in one district is a low caste in another district. Many people from the lower caste are millionaires and many people from the upper caste are poor. How will this caste census help remove poverty?

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Bihar will be even poorer

This census certainly will make a backward state like Bihar even poorer than it is now. On the grounds of reality, poor is poor and his poverty is his caste. If we remove his poverty then his caste will disappear automatically and if we count his caste then his poverty will go on increasing for people from higher castes will get mobilized against him.

Parijat Tripathi

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