Aditi Phadnis is brilliant in her analysis of the malaise manifesting itsrlf in the Jehanabad uprising. What we would like to kanow, however, is the reaction of the secularism-obsessed CPM and CPI mavericks who are silent on this incident and continue their support to the person during whose rule the class structures in the Bihar society remained unchanged with the scam loot available for distribution among the lumpen class as well as a caste-ridden bureaucracy. In the garb of being the messiah of the dalits, what has actually been done, consciously and deliberately, in the last 15 years is to perpetuate the age-old property-oriented interests of the class owning and acquiring all resources through corruption. The loot of the treasury by this class of casteist (and certainly communal, being vociferous about the religious minorities but not about the marginalised majority) only aggravated the situation. The totally corrupt and elitist bureaucracy has been sharing the loot while a façade of dalit oriented political slogan-shouting continues. It would indeed be interesting to see the upper caste and class dominated, prosperous communists reaction to Aditis article. Kudos to her.
