Thread by @Samajwaadi1

A thread on how Bihar was a feudalistic and manuwadi society before Lalu Prasad Yadav's rule and how during his tenure Social Justice policy took prominence in Bihar for an egalitarian and revolutionary society. 📌👇

The violence and oppression by the feudal landlords was so common in Bihar that murders and rapes of lower castes and dalits happened on the common basis.

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Bijatpur: Rape of a village.This incident happened in 1978. Rape of lower castes and dalits women were quite common in Bihar.

This is just one media reporting on the incident.Due to lack of media reporting,the horror of crimes committed by the landlords aren't in public domain.

Just read these pages . How common rape was of lower castes and dalits by feudal landlords. It was just not crime but made a social custom and tradition in Bihar.

Kamiyuti System
Dola Pratha

This happened till late 1980s . Pararia Mass Rape (1988) 👇📌

Because of this, rampant violence against 90% of the population in Bihar, Karpuriji said that the Dalits should be given guns so that they could protect themselves. Karpuriji said that the police do not protect Dalits because they also have fedualist and manuwadi forces in them.

Apart from violence,the people from lower castes and dalits were even not allowed to participate and vote in elections
Jagdish Mahto was a teacher in Bhojpur area of Bihar.During 1967 elections,he protested against landlords as they restricted lower castes and Dalits from voting

Jagdish Mahto was tied to a tree and brutally beaten by the manuwadi forces . He was hospitalised and later bed ridden for months.

The caste based violence and discrimination was not just faced by the common people in Bihar, but by popular leaders like Jagdev Prasad also. It is believed that he was killed by police action in 1974. He was killed for his Anti-caste and Revolutionary stand.

When Karpuriji was CM of Bihar, his father was beaten by Upper caste goons just because he refused to do his traditional caste based work.

Imagine father of Chief Minister was beaten.

Caste Massacre done by Ranvir Sena 👇

These are some limited atrocities that, I have mentioned. Innumerable stories of caste oppression and atrocities still exists in Bihar.

Now let's talk about how Lalu Prasad Yadav fought for the dignity and equality of lower castes and dalits in Bihar. 👇📌

Laluji said " I could not give heaven to Bihar but gave voice".

The first thing that Laluji broke was caste hegemony of these feudal landlords. Now, they could no longer oppress the lower castes and dalits and be free.

Today if you see any leader of OBC and SC community in Bihar, it is the result Laluji's rule in Bihar.

27% Reservation was given to OBC community by the Centre Government in Jobs and Educational Institutions. This dream of social justice was achieved just because two big states in North India- UP(Mulayamji) and Bihar (Laluji) had CM from OBC community.

More than 150 charvaha schools were established in rural areas across the state, so that poor students could continue their study.

Laluji gave prominence to education always. Once addresing at a crowd of Teli Samaj at Morabadi Maidan, Ranchi, he asserted that Education should be given to the OBC and SC community at any cost. He said " Without education you cannot fight against these caste oppressions".

•Violation of rules for reservations in government jobs and educational
institutions was made a cognizable offence
•Tree tax and the cess on the sale of toddy was abolished. This provided relief to many SC community in Bihar.

•Hundreds of slums in Patna and other towns were regularized.
• The government assisted an estimated five lakh homeless families to build pucca homes,250 schools were opened in urban slums,and a hundred night shelters were constructed for rickshaw pullers and casual labourers

•Laluji went to the homes of the poors into slum colonies with teams of doctors, nurses and barbers and demand that all the children be
lined up. Doctors conducted checks on the children and administered medicines.

The barbers then gave them each a haircut and a massage and a bath. At the end of the cleansing,
each child would be given a education kits for the study.
• Bihar was the first state in the country, to give Menstrual leave to government employees during Laluji's rule.

• When the whole country was infected with riots due to BJP/RSS rath yatra, Bihar was largely calm and peaceful. During Laluji's rule no communal riots happened in Bihar.

• Listen to this video by Rahul Shrivastava on Laluji's tenure how it mainstreamed the politics of marginalised societies in the country.

• To sum up Laluji's tenure in Bihar, it allowed people from OBC and SC community to sit at same level with the landlords and infused them with a sense of pride to fight against Caste system and its oppression.

Jai Bhim 🙏 Jai Samajwad 🙏