At Kafila, theater director Samkutty Pattomkary asks a few questions to Prakash Karat after CPM’s Dalit convention took place at Kochi, in Kerala. Dalits are the backbone of CPM in Kerala and the party is slowly losing that ground and Chengara struggle is the recent example.
Linked by Jo. Join Blogbharti facebook group.Second issue he raises is that the abolition of caste system remains an issue to be resolved. Does it remain an issue to be resolved outside the party? Has it been resolved within the party? If ‘yes’ is your answer for the latter, can you explain it through the history of communists in Kerala? If ‘no’ is your answer, will you bring in the ‘CPM scheduled castes and tribes’ to power positions within the party now onwards?
Like the dalits of the Congress, the dalits of the CPM will soon join the rapidly growin camp of Mayawati. All ‘upper caste’ parties have given notional empowerment to dalits in a condescending, patronising manner. The real power has remained firmly with non-dalits.
Mayawati’s real dalit chariot is getting bigger and faster and might soon conquer Delhi