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India should shape South-East Asia’s foreign policy, says BSP
Source : The Hindu, 21st April 2009
COIMBATORE: As the biggest country in South East Asia, India should shape this region’s foreign policy apart from maintaining close, friendly relations with the other countries in this region, national general secretary of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Suresh Mane told presspersons here on Monday.
The lack of the desired response from Sri Lanka to appeals from India for the cessation of hostilities was the result of a weak foreign policy. “The Sri Lankan issue relates to foreign policy. There can be a solution only through a policy of positive intervention,” he said. In this context, he accused the parties in Tamil Nadu of resorting to “emotional politics” over the Sri Lankan situation.
The BSP would work to evolve a foreign policy that would have a bearing on the entire region through an agenda of friendly ties.
On the political formation that could emerge at the Centre, Mr. Mane said that under no circumstance would the BSP allow the formation of a Government by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance or the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance.
On the party’s foray into Tamil Nadu, he said the BSP was projecting itself as the party of the neglected people; one that would deal with neglected issues. For instance, the Brahmins in Tamil Nadu were politically neglected, he said.
Asked whether the party could make an impact by contesting against major Dravidian parties in the State, and that too when it was going it alone, he replied: “When we have succeeded in Bihar and Orissa, why cannot we succeed in Tamil Nadu? We have not entered into any political alliance because the BSP believes in social alliance.”
27 Mar 2009, 0407 hrs IST, TNN
MADURAI: The Madurai district administration and city police have refused to give the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) the use of Tamukkam grounds in Madurai for holding the public meeting to be addressed by party president Mayawati on April 3. The party has sought an explanation for this refusal under the Right To Information Act. BSP general secretary, Suresh Mane, told reporters that he was informed of the inability of the district administration to provide Tamukkam as the venue for the public meeting, when he met district collector P Seetharaman and commissioner of police K Nandhabalan in Madurai on Monday. “We had given our application to the Madurai corporation commissioner 15 days ago and were granted permission, but now we have come to know that there is a problem in providing the ‘no objection’ certificate and we have asked for an explanation, ” he said.
Press Release
BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY-TAMIL NADU
TO CONTEST ALL PARLIAMENTARY SEATS.
NO ALLIANCE OR ANY UNDERSTANDING WITH ANY POLITICAL PARTY.
BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY in Tamil Nadu State will go alone in the coming parliamentary election and contest all 39 parliamentary seats and one in pondichery without any alliance or any kind of understanding with any other political party. In recent past almost every political party is busy in talking about the electoral alliance, but BSP’s policy is to have an alliance with the people rather than a political party. The composition of Bahujan Samaj Party is also based on the principle of Sarvjan Hitay-Sarvjan Sukhay whichis itself an alliance with different social sections of masses.
Under the instructions of Bahujan Samaj Party National President and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Bahen Kumari Mayawati ji, Tamil Nadu State Unit of the party is currently seriously engaged in the necessary preparations for the coming parliamentary poll. The examination of each parliamentary constituency, winning chances as well as the candidate selection all these things are in process. In this parliamentary election, Bahujan Samaj Party is determined to demonstrate its political strength and to change the so-called settled political equations in Tamil Nadu. To plan the election work and guide the party network, Tamil Nadu State Unit has conduced the necessary parliament, assembly level camps in State.
In this election, the party will aggressively campaign and educate the masses about the anti-nation-people- farmers-labouring class, Scheduled Castes and Tribes- Minorities policies of the UPA government at the centre and its allies such as DMK in the State. In election campaign BSP will focus on the issues, such as, the failure of UPA-Congress government at the centre in dealing with the issues of poverty, inflation, flood control, farmers issues, employment-generation, terrorism-naxalism, law and order, attack on minorities, rise of fundamentalism, neglect of Scheduled Castes and Tribes, India’s foreign policy-Indo-US Nuclear Deal, reservation in private sector and to poor among the upper castes, anti SC/ST and Backward classes reservation Bill passed in Rajya Sabha by UPA in December, 2008, failure to provide budgetary provisions to implement either SC/ST sub Plans or Sachhar Commission Report, non-implementation Tribals rights under Act of 2006 and various other issues related to economic policies of the government at the centre which have been detrimental to the interests of common man as well as of the country.
The party will also focus on the emergence of BSP Supremo Kum. Mayawati as one of the prospective leader to lead the country in the post-parliamentary election scenario as well as the milestone achievements of BSP government in Uttar Pradesh along with the party policy of Sarvjan Hitay-Sarvjan Sukhay, the only suitable policy for protecting and promoting the interests of all people of India and maintain peace and communal harmony. In accord with the party’s policy of Sarvjan Hitay-Sarvjan Sukhay the party candidates are being selected from each caste-community and religious groups.
In Tamil Nadu State, in the parliamentary election, the BSP is confident of making strong inroad and will provide a surprise and shocking package to several other political parties by unsettling the settled election winning equations. There is also noticeable wide acceptance to the party and party policies among the strong 24% Dalits of Tamil Nadu cutting across the internal contradictions and by rejecting the traditional fraction ridden Dalit organisations. In this election, the party is also going to make all out efforts to open an account in the State and strengthen Kum. Mayawati’s journey towards the India’s Prime Ministerial post to provide a new mission and vision to India.
Prof. Dr. Suresh Mane
National General Secretary
Tamilnadu Voters Should Reject Family Based-
Opportunty Alliance Based-
Issless-Unprincipled Politics of DMK, ADMK, PMK,
DMDK, CongressBJP
And Vote For BSP.
Bahujan Samaj Party at the national level has finalized the list of 500 Lok-Sabha Candidates which includes 39 from the State of Tamilnadu and 1 from the state of Puducherry. Because BSP has taken a policy decision that although several political parties were interested to have an alliance with BSP, to go all alone in coming parliamentary election having no alliance or understanding with any other political party.
In Tamilnadu, the people of Tamilnadu are in a need of strong political party, leadership and an agenda, national as well as regional level, which BSP and Mayawati’s leadership can only provide and therefore there has been the wide acceptance to the policy of BSP and the leadership to Km. Mayawatiji, including State of Tamilnadu. The people of Tamilnadu also are fed up with family politics and opportunist-selfish kind of alliance politics of DMK, AIADMK, PMK, MDMK and other parties. The State and its development agenda has suffered a lot under the present DMK government and failure of all such parties on several fronts compelled them to Sri Lankan Tamil issues. On the other hand BSP represents the different model and provides an alternate model to the policies of UPA led by the Congress party (DMK) and NDA led by BJP. For the 25% population of Dalits in the State it is the BSP can alone provide strong and assertive identity in the politics of Tamilnadu and can also remove the contradictions among them.
The Indian Church is 70 per cent of Dalits and in Tamilnadu, 65 per cent of the Christians are Dalits. But the Tamil Nadu Government’s quota policy for Christians and Muslims in the State has disappointed the Dalit Christian. By clubbing Dalit Christians with other Christians in minorities’ list, the present DMK government has given a setback to the entire national struggle asking for a SC status.
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have literally wreaked havoc in the lives of Dalit. Unemployed Dalit men are migrating to the city in search of employment, but at the receiving end are the women who have to cope with the loss of livelihood, not to mention the social discrimination in their villages. According to an estimate, about 3.5 lakh persons across 21 districts have been displaced and have lost their occupation since the SEZs came up. Overall, 10 lakh persons were displaced due to SEZs in 2002, 25 per cent of them were from Dalit families. In the last 2 years near about 2 lakh Dalit families have moved to Chennai due to the displacement in their villages.
In the last 61 years of independence, the Congress party has ruled more in the country and hence is primarily responsible for the non-development of Dalits, Tribals, backward castes and minorities, especially Muslims. Every election manifesto of this Manuwadi party has been full of promises to all these sections but once their votes are taken, paltry things have been done. The Congress party and entire UPA is also criminally liable for the neglect of SCs-STs, failure to provide reservation to Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims, reservation in private sector despite the several promises in their earlier election manifestos, including failure to implement Sacchar Committee report on minorities, and also for the failure to protect the tribal’s rights under Forest Act, 2008. The inclusion of the Scheduled Caste or tribe converts into the SC/ST lists the policy of the Congress as well as BJP is the same that is to deny the benefits to them.
On 23th December, 2008, the Congress and UPA has passed the anti reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha, denying the reservations to SC, ST and Backward Castes in 47 educational institutions of national importance like Indian Institute of management and IITs when the reservation has been
already there in such institutions. And this has been done by the Congress party rule despite the presence of Meera Kumar, Ramvilas Paswan, Laluprasad Yadav and several other so-called Dalit Ministers of Tamil Nadu in the UPA cabinet. Already, there has been the huge backlog quota of SC-ST employees in the centre and State services and in the last 5 years there has been not even a tabling of the reports of SC’s or ST’s Commissions in the parliament and every year there is no sufficient budgetary provisions for SC-ST component plans by all the governments in the country, including present DMK government in State. The same has been the case of non-implementation of the Sachhar Commission report.
On the other side BSP government in Uttar Pradesh has completed the backlog quota of SCs, introduced the reservation in private sector not only to SCs alone but also to backward castes and minorities and also guaranteed the reservation to the poor among the upper castes. With regard to Muslims and women empowerment several radical measures have been initiated by the BSP government including the establishment of schools and colleges, especially in Muslim populated areas. BSP leader Mayawatiji, on several times have written to the Prime Minister for the inclusion of Dalit-Christians and Dalit-Muslims in the list of SCs and also to increase the reservation quota of SCs by amending the Constitution nullifying the 50% limit fixed by the Mandal judgment but the UPA-Congress government has ignored it.
Muslims in Tamilnadu Should Reject the Petty-Family Politics of NDA-UPA, DMK,AIDMK, PMK and
in the Larger Interest Vote for BSP
In India, the Muslim population is near about 138 million which comes to 13.4% population of India according to 2001 census and in 2006, it constituted near about 150 million. Amongst the minorities in India, Muslims constitute 69% of the total minority’s population and18-20% of country’s population. At the national level Muslims form the major part of the country’s electorates. But despite the long rule of the Congress and other parties at the centre and in regional parties like, DMK, AIDMK, PMK and others in different states, this single largest group of the religious minority has always been under scanner of the general population and far away from the path of socio-economic development. Unfortunately the petty politicians among the Muslims, lack of leadership and non-political approach of the larger groups has kept them at the door step of the other political parties and hence are compelled to the part of this coalition or that coalition by the selfish leaderships.
As a result, Muslims have not only remained socially, educationally, economically backward and politically unrepresented. The data of Sachhar Commission Report provides the very pathetic picture. Accordingly the Muslims have been deprived in all the areas, as under:
Muslim Share in Central Services %
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IAS |
IFS |
IPS |
RAILWAY |
EDU |
JUDICIARY |
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3 |
1.8 |
4 |
4.5 |
6.5 |
7.8 (In 12 State Highest Popu.) |
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Muslims Employment in Govt Sctor
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PSUS |
CIVIL SERVICE |
RAIL |
JUDI |
HEALTH |
TRANSPORT |
HOME AFFAIRS |
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7.2 |
3.2 |
4.5 |
7.8 |
4.4 |
6.5 |
7.3 |
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1 |
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3.2% representation in central security services (cisf, bsf, crpf)
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2 |
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2.7% among district judges
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3 |
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4.9% overall governmental jobs
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4 |
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Less than 4% muslims graduates
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5 |
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Less than 3% muslims are able to get subsides loans
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6 |
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2.1% muslim farmers own tractor
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7 |
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1.% farmers own hand pumps for irregation.
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8 |
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31% people below poverty line. |
The question is who is responsible for such meager share of largest minority group and what the solution is.
The solution suggested by so-called scholars and intellectual of Muslim community or so-called leadership has been proved to be futile. In Tamilnadu there have been several political outfits of Muslims always as the appendix of DMK, AIDMK fronts in State and most of the times of the Congress at the centre. Is it a solution? Certainly not. Otherwise there would not have been the growth of other Muslims outfits in the recent past. Organizing and mobilizing Muslims alone is not the solution in democratic polity and by such work cheap Muslims leaders, parties make the task of fascist and communal forces easy to brand the Muslims as the extremist, anti-nationals or terrorist group.
Therefore, in Tamilnadu also, Muslims should explore the BSP experiment and become the part of this largest social coalition under the dynamic leadership of Km. Mayawatiji to share not only the governmental power but also the self respect and self assertion. But some Muslims create the bogy of BSP-BJP support, government in UP earlier but thereby BSP strategically has demolished the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and has weekend BJP in cow belt they conveniently ignore and in the name of secularism continue to remain the backdoor supporters of the Congress Party-the moderate model of BJP.
BSP has always considered Muslims in the country as the part of Bahujan Samaj (oppressed and suppressed group) and has tried to form a largest social coalition in the country. As part of this endeavour in the victory of BSP in Uttar Pradesh assembly election-2007, 18% share was of the Muslim votes. In UP they have understood, that it is BSP alone which can crush the Congress and BJP and other status quoits parties and provide the better policy.
Apart from the radical initiatives taken by the BSP government in UP, including the establishment of Arebic university in Lucknow, modernization of Madarasa and establishment of number of schools and colleges in Muslims localities, BSP party and leadership, inside and outside the parliament opposed the Nuclear Deal and accused the UPA government for creating the problems in the India’s neighboring Muslim countries. BSP alone with all its might firmly opposed the Nuclear Deal and pro-American policy. But unfortunately we have Muslim parties or groups who opposed the Nuclear Deal but supported the Congress party and others.
In the context of recent terrorist attacks in the country, BSP leader Mayawatiji wrote the Prime Minister on 10th October, 2008 to take the necessary measures to prevent the terrorism and not to equate the terrorism with Muslim community. Kum. Mayawatiji also wrote that in India there should be the Rule of Law and no innocent man should be killed in the name of encounters. Recently when Mr. Varun Gandhi spoke against Muslims, BSP government in Uttar Pradesh slapped the National Security Act, on him and sent to jail to prevent any communal riot and tension.
In this backdrop, Muslim Brothers and Sisters, should explore BSP option in the larger interest by rejecting DMK. AIDMK, CONGRESS and other regional parties. In Tamilnadu, For some it may not pay immediately but it is the safest and ever-lasting solution.
So think and vote on 13 May, 2009 to BSP candidate’s Elephant symbol and be the equal partners in the real freedom struggle, democracy-nation building exercise.
PROF. DR. SURESH MANE
NATIONAL GEN. SECRETARY-CO-ORDINATOR-TAMILNADU, KERALA & PONDICHERY
MR. SELVAM MR. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT-TAMILNADU CONVENOR-TAMILNADU
PROF. DHEERAN MR. AKARAM KHAN
VICE-PRESIDENT-TAMILNADU MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD -CONVENO
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People’s alliance against party alliances