Prof. K Satyanarayana: RSS-Modi projecting their ideology as Ambedkar’s ideology – Part 2

By 2002 they got a clue. After the genocide in Gujarat, they clearly understood. What did they understand after the Gujarat Genocide? That they can at least use some of the Adivasis and Dalits against Muslims. These are the dangerous ideas that Respected Mr.Tarakam mentioned about. In an evil way, they want to create conflicts between people. Dalits against minorities, Adivasis against Dalits, they understood how to create this in the laboratory. By 2002 Modi understood this. This idea was generated from Modi’s laboratory. After this idea, they tried to widely spread it.

As a part of this propaganda, in 2002 in UP, when they had a conflict with BSP, Vinay Katiar and all used these arguments, mainly that Ambedkar was anti-Muslim, Ambedkar was a Hindu and that Ambedkar was anti-communist. There was a widespread propaganda and as a part of this they publicised his book on Pakistan.  As a reply to that, Anand had written the book, “Ambedkar on Muslims,” in 2003. Similarly in their Karanjaya magazine, in 2002 they started a propaganda that Ambedkar was anti-Muslim and there are many proofs in his own writings. That Ambedkar is anti-communist.

Ambedkar never said that the poor are gods and that they have a divine spirit. He awakened the self-respect, struggle for resistance and he awakened a revolutionary zeal in them, but never said that they have a divine spirit or that he worked for saving Hindu religion.

They understood that if they separate all the dalits from among the backward citizens and pitch them against communists and Muslim sections, their work would get easier. For the same reason, today this Organiser has come out and we have to be wary of this. They are doing this propaganda in a highly planned manner. Not because they aren’t aware or because they are innocent or because they are uneducated. Even Anand has said that Ambedkar evolved continuously and his opinions were changing as he was evolving and they were catching some half-truths and therefore there is some truth and half-truth in what they say. Even that is not correct.

If you read the RSS magazine, they aren’t even about half-truth. There are complete lies. Because the other words of Anand are important. That they are propagating huge lies. It is nothing but a bogus propaganda. Including texts like The Annihilation of Caste, they distort the last quotations in it. Even the books that we know, they completely distorted and have written lies. I don’t think it is right to say that there is even some truth in what such people say, because there isn’t even some truth in this whole thing. That he is a Hindu reformer, that there should be fraternity among Hindus and that he fought for unity among Hindus and many such things. To go into the details, you can read the available book. I will give you only one quotation to explain how they do this. In the last paragraph in Annihilation of Caste, Ambedkar says, in which he is speaking to Hindu reformers in Punjab, who have invited him and he was supposed to speak in their meeting. But he didn’t go and speak and he published that unspoken text later. In that he says, that you are having a goal greater than freedom, therefore you have to be very careful. And then he goes on to say more. But they stop and quote only until here, and distort that Ambedkar said the goal of Hindus is greater than freedom. And therefore the goal of Hindus is the unity of all Hindus. They lie that this what Ambedkar said. But what did Ambedkar also say in the same paragraph? “In the fight for swaraj, fight with the whole nation on your side. But in this, you have to fight against the whole nation and that too your own.” He said that for freedom you have to fight the enemy, but in this struggle you have to fight with your own people. You have to fight with Hindus. You have to fight with Brahmins. “In my opinion, it is only when Hindu society becomes a casteless society that it can hope to have strength enough to defend it.” Only when the society is ridden of caste, you can defend yourselves. When caste is not caste free society, Hindu society cannot survive is what he says. These quotations will not be there.

Even from this very popular text, from a big paragraph, they remove these words that a caste free society is needed and as Hindus, you have to fight with dominant caste Hindus. These words are ignored and only the words, and say that he only said they should fight for unity among Hindus and that their fight is greater than the fight for freedom. Many distortions of these kind. If all these half-quotes and half-truth are on one side, in another essay, this is an even more important strategy that they follow. That Ambedkar has a lot of amicable relationship with RSS leaders, and they all used to visit Ambedkar. And that Ambedkar used to speak of a lot of things to them and they wrote about those in books. And there are essays quoting from those written works.

In all of Ambedkar’s writings, you will not find the phrase “social harmony” in relation to Hindus. He is a bitter critique of Hinduism. What they are trying to convey is that Ambedkar is very close to RSS, he used to meet every day with RSS intellectuals, he used to visit their RSS sakha, and he used to praise them every day, all these kinds of blatant lies.

There is this essay, Travellers of the Same Path. About people who walk the same path. Who are they? They say Hegdewar, Golwalkar and all these RSS thinkers and Ambedkar walked the same path. What kind of lies they write about ! If you see the quotation, it says “Ambedkar biography, written by RSS pracharak.” And what is there in that? It seems when they went to Ambedkar, he told them that he would never let the Dalits in this country become communists. That just as Golwalker stopped Hindus from becoming Muslims, I have stopped Dalits from becoming communists. Many lies like this.

If today you look at Ambedkar, 20 volumes of his written works, lectures and speeches are available. All these are available online and everything is verifiable. We can confirm and verify everything and understand its spirit. One more thing that Anand has mentioned, after all these lies, they made up false stories that their intellectuals, they have been quoting what they themselves have written. “What did Golwalker say?” That Ambedkar awakened the divine sprit in the backward Dalit masses. That Ambedkar looked upon the poor as gods. It is not Ambedkarite idea. Ambedkar never said that the poor are gods and that they have a divine spirit. He awakened the self-respect, struggle for resistance and he awakened a revolutionary zeal in them, but never said that they have a divine spirit or that he worked for saving Hindu religion.

They incorporated all this false things into his words. Similarly, it seems that Devaras has written that Ambedkar wished for unity of Hindu society and social harmony among them. You cannot find any proof of this. In all of Ambedkar’s writings, you will not find the phrase “social harmony” in relation to Hindus. He is a bitter critique of Hinduism. What they are trying to convey is that Ambedkar is very close to RSS, he used to meet every day with RSS intellectuals, he used to visit their RSS sakha, and he used to praise them every day, all these kinds of blatant lies.

In fact, in a big national seminar on Dalit literature conducted by Mr.Tarakam, Ambedkar’s writings were taken together and edited as an essay by Vasant Moon. In that essay he has written that by the time Ambedkar’s writings were widely published and distributed, they weren’t published for a very long time and were published only after a lot of struggle. During that time, the reasons for not publishing were because some obstacles were created by some, including the Hindutva forces. In fact, there was a big fight against publishing Riddles of Hinduism. Only after a big andolan by the Dalit intellectuals, they published that book. Even in that book, you can see the words, “These views are not views of the government.” That means that all the 21 volumes of Ambedkar are the views of Maharashtra government, but only the Riddles of Hinduism is not. The Hindutvavadis are responsible for this too.

[Dr. Ambedkar] said that instead of resolving the Kashmir issue, you are creating a war like atmosphere and if there is a war between India and Pakistan, it will be a huge loss. He says that Nehru didn’t do anything to dissolve this war like atmosphere and left Kashmir as a burning issue. They distort this as Ambedkar agreeing with RSS opinion.

What Vasant Moon say about those published volumes is that, they mixed some books into that, saying that these were Ambedkar’s writings. Even that day, attempts were made to change and distort all Ambedkar’s writings. To fight these attempts, since he is close to Ambedkar and worked with him, he read each and every written word and compared them all and he removed all the distortions and published the original Ambedkar thoughts. He said this while publishing that there is this danger of distorting Ambedkar’s thoughts. To make Ambedkar’s thoughts disappear. Therefore Vasant Moon saved us from such danger by publishing those volumes. All these plans and schemes are being done in an illegitimate way by them.

What do they say about Ambedkar being anti-Muslim? Since he converted to Buddhism and as Buddhism is a sect of Hinduism, therefore he is anti-Muslim. And two more new things they say in this. As I have said, what is there in Modi’s mind, they are trying to convey that through Ambedkar. As part of that, they say that Ambedkar is against Article-370 and that Ambedkar is against Kashmir. “He asked for Kashmir to be divided into three parts on basis of religion. One part for Hindus, one part for Muslims and one for Pundits.” And when Sheik Abdullah went to Ambedkar with regard to Article-370, they say that Ambedkar said, “For the unity of this nation, I will not allow this to happen.” There is no proof anywhere for this. There is no evidence of Ambedkar saying this about Article-370. They didn’t even show that Ambedkar spoke to the RSS, but just wrote that Ambedkar spoke those words. We searched a lot for that, to check if it is present in any writings. Based on this they say that Ambedkar is anti-Muslim.

As Kashmir is a Muslim state and since he opposed Article-370 there, he is anti-Muslim. And since he asked for it to be divided into three parts, he is anti-Muslim. Even when India-Pakistan struggle was happening, he said that Pakistan should be partitioned. But he had his reasons for saying that. They are all valued based, principle based reasons. “When the people are willing and when they can’t live together, the right thing to do is to partition.” Similarly when the Kashmir issue came, after 10 years of independent rule, in the letter that he wrote while resigning as the law minister, said that Nehru completely ignored SC-STs, ignored the backward classes and that worked a bit for Muslims, but he didn’t care for us. They show this and distort this as Ambedkar saying that Nehru appeased to Muslims and didn’t do anything for Dalits. Also he said that instead of resolving the Kashmir issue, you are creating a war like atmosphere and if there is a war between India and Pakistan, it will be a huge loss. He says that Nehru didn’t do anything to dissolve this war like atmosphere and left Kashmir as a burning issue. They distort this as Ambedkar agreeing with RSS opinion. So there isn’t just one lie that they say.

Also this Narendra Jadhav.. the way people are changing things! First he gave an essay. What essay did he give? He wrote a prologue to Ambedkar’s speeches. They took a small part from that prologue and printed it here for legitimacy. There is no relation to this book and to what Narendra Jadhav has written. In his prologue, he writes that Ambedkar gave many speeches and such and such things are in present those speeches. He gave that and waited for Modi’s motion. And now Modi has appointed him as Chairman. Now he says that he is okay with either Congress or BJP as long as he gets to serve Ambedkar. Is this what service to Ambedkar means? Is this the kind of service our Dalit Intellectuals and our people are willing to do? We have to think about this issue. The main thing is that this is an ideological net designed by the Hindutva vadis and many people are already caught in this net and there is a danger of more people getting caught in it. And that is why the very senior and experienced Mr.Tarakam has understood the seriousness of this and brought out this book. Therefore I request that all of you should read this book and spread the word.

Thank you.