LUCKNOW (The Thursday Times) — Brahmin shikayaat par mabni aik nayi siyasi jamaat ne agle saal ke riyasti intikhabat se pehle Uttar Pradesh mein apna daftar khol liya hai. Yeh India ki hukmran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ke khilaf un oonchi zaat ke voters mein barhte hue ghusse ki nishani hai jo taweel arse se us ka bunyadi himayati tabqa rahe hain, Bharti news site Scroll ki aik maidani report ke mutabiq.
Rashtriya Adhikar Morcha (RAM) ki bunyad Alankar Agnihotri ne rakhi, jo adliya ke sabiqa afsar hain aur jinhon ne February mein universities ke liye tafreeq ke khilaf naye qawaid ke ehtijaj mein istifa de diya tha. Unhon ne Scroll ko bataya ke jamaat sooba ki 403 assembly seats mein se 150 par election laregi aur baqi 253 seats par Mayawati ki Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ki bila shart himayat karegi.
"Hum kam az kam 100 seats par BJP ke votes kaat rahe hain," Agnihotri ne kaha. "BJP ke liye hamara paigham saada hai: Brahmins ke saath na-insafiyon par munh kholein warna aap ke rahnumaon ko har gali mein maara jayega," unhon ne mazeed kaha. Interviews mein unhon ne ishaaron mein Wazir-e-Azam Narendra Modi aur Wazir-e-Dakhla Amit Shah ko "Gujarati gunde" kaha hai.
BJP ko taweel arse tak oonchi zaat ke Hinduon ki jamaat samjha jata raha, aur us ke kai ibtidai rahnuma, jin mein Deendayal Upadhyaya, Atal Bihari Vajpayee aur Murli Manohar Joshi shamil hain, Uttar Pradesh ke Brahmins thay. Lekin pichhle das saal mein us ne Other Backward Classes (OBCs) aur Scheduled Castes ke voters ko apni taraf kheench kar lagatar do riyasti intikhabat jeet liye hain, aur ab bohat se Brahmins mehsoos karte hain ke unhon ne woh jamaat kho di hai jise woh apni samajhte thay.
"Brahmins BJP ke ghar ke sutoon thay," Rajendra Nath Tripathi ne, jo Akhil Bharatiya Brahmin Mahasabha ke qaumi sadr hain, Scroll ko bataya. "Lekin aaj hum khul kar yeh dawa bhi nahin kar sakte ke hum us ke kirayedar hain."
Foran wajah University Grants Commission (UGC) ke woh draft rules bane, jo Modi hukumat ne January mein notify kiye aur jin mein bataya gaya ke colleges aur universities OBC, Scheduled Caste aur Scheduled Tribe giroh se taalluq rakhne wale talba aur staff ke saath imtiyazi sulook se kaise nimtein. Yeh rules talba ki khudkushiyon mein izafe ke baad aaye, khaas taur par Dalits mein, lekin upper-caste girohon ne jhoote muqadmon ke khadshon ka hawala dete hue ehtijaj kiya. Supreme Court ne chand hafte baad in rules par stay order jari kar diya, lekin ghussa maand nahin para.
Scroll ko maloom hua ke is ghusse ka kuch hissa Uttar Pradesh ke Wazir-e-Aala Yogi Adityanath ke bajaye Modi ke khilaf hai. "2027 mein BJP ko hamara vote Yogi ke liye hoga," Lucknow ke bahar Adityanath ki rally mein maujood aik naujawan Thakur voter ne kaha. "2029 mein hum BJP ko vote nahin denge. Log Modi se bezar hain."
BJP ke Lucknow shehr ke sadr ne is khayal ko mustarad kar diya ke Brahmin jamaat ka saath chhor denge, aur poochha: "Jayenge toh jaye kahan?" — yaani woh kahan jayenge? Un ke naib Vinayak Pandey ne zyada do tok baat ki. "Brahmin sab kuch chahte hain," unhon ne Scroll se kaha. "Aap biradari ke liye darjan bhar kaam kar dein, lekin aik mutalba poora na karein toh woh ehtijaj par utar aate hain." Pandey ne yeh bhi khabardar kiya ke agar BJP haar gayi toh upper-caste voters ki "aankhein khul jayengi", aur mazeed kaha: "Musalman un ke ghar mein ghus kar unhein qatl kar denge."
Tripathi, jo kehte hain ke unhon ne haal hi mein 42 zilon ka daura kiya hai, israr karte hain ke is baar surat-e-haal mukhtalif hai. "Itna ghussa hai ke is baar yeh jayenge-toh-jaye-kahan kaam nahin karega," unhon ne kaha. Lekin unhon ne tasleem kiya ke biradari ne abhi tak yeh tai nahin kiya ke woh opposition ki kis jamaat ki himayat karegi. Un ke mutalbon mein UGC rules ki wapsi, Scheduled Castes aur Scheduled Tribes par mazalim ke khilaf qanoon ko narm karna, aur zaat par mabni reservations mein tabdeeli shamil hain. "Faisla intikhabat se 10 din pehle kiya jayega," unhon ne kaha.
RAM khud abhi tak kamyab nahin ho saka. Scroll ne paya ke September mein Uttar Pradesh bhar ke aam voters ne na Agnihotri ke bare mein suna tha na un ki siyasi jamaat ke bare mein. "Koi bhi siyasi jamaat bureaucrat ke mizaj ke saath nahin chalai ja sakti," Tripathi ne kaha. "Bohat se Agnihotri aate hain aur chale jate hain, lekin koi asar dale baghair."
Aadad-o-shumar batate hain ke BJP is mizaj ko nazar andaz kyun nahin kar sakti. 1931 ki mardumshumari mein us waqt ke United Provinces, yaani aaj ke Uttar Pradesh aur Uttarakhand, ki aabadi mein Brahmins ka hissa 11% tha, jis ke nateeje mein mutlaq tadad ke lihaz se Uttar Pradesh mein kisi bhi Bharti sooba ke muqable mein sab se zyada Brahmin aabadi hai.
