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| As Jammu celebrates Parsuram's incarnation, Brahmin youth desperately seek 'Dalit' tag | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 19: As Brahmins proudly celebrate incarnation day of Bhagwan Parshuram in Jammu and several other places of the country on Monday, reminding themselves and others of their illustrious being, the brazen truth is, that their very being has relegated many of them to the margin of the modern social fabric.
With vote bank politics 'reserving' everything in this country from education to loans and jobs to promotions, Brahmins along with few other high castes are finding themselves on the margin of the social spectrum. The discontentment has reached an uneasy level and manifestation of the outburst has already been witnessed at several places across the country.
Rajesh Khajuria is one of those young educated Brahmins, who has faced the brunt for being a Brahmin and now wants desperately to be called a Dalit. "I lost my father when I was a kid. Since then, my mother brought me up by doing menial jobs. Who deserves the benefit of reservation more than I?" questioned Rajesh, who now teaches in a private school after failing to get a government job despite a Post graduate degree.
"Economics alone should be the criterion for reservation" he emphasized questioning why his merit was overlooked repeatedly to accommodate someone else in the list, just because he belonged to a particular class.
Today, more and more educated Brahmins and those belonging to so called upper castes are taking to lesser options to support their families. "Two in every five mini bus drivers in the city are Brahmins" said Rajesh showing the copies of vague survey he conducted some years back. "With farming becoming unprofitable and tedious and jobs drying up for them, Brahmins youth are taking to driving as the first option" he said. There is another lot which is taking to illegal means to get jobs. They are procuring illegal certificates of belonging to Scheduled castes or Scheduled tribes. Especially those applying for central government jobs are indulging in this mal practice. Yog Raj, a Brahmin youth from Jammu recently got dismissed from a government of India undertaking in Delhi. Yog Raj, a Brahmin by caste, who worked as watchman, had procured a fake certificate of being a Dalit to fill up a back log vacancy. On verification, the certificate was found to be fake and now, he faces threat of termination.
"At a time, when 400,000 Brahmins of the Kashmir valley, the once respected Kashmiri Pandits are living as refugees in their own country in refugee camps in appalling conditions, and a large number of Sulabh Shauchalayas across the country are manned and maintained by Brahmins, this is probably time when government needs to redefine the term Dalit" said Rajesh, expressing anguish. |
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