How Ambedkarites are attempting to whitewash the lynching of Lakhbir Singh by turning it right into a ‘Brahmin vs Dalit’ problem

“The horrific image of Lakhbir’s dead body should haunt each of us. It should haunt each and every ‘peaceful protestor’ who didn’t do anything to stop it. It should haunt each and every soul who betrayed the gurus by being a tool and witness of oppression. It should haunt every human who boasts of humanity and equality in society. It should haunt every ideology that failed to save him. It will haunt me, as I assumed that he was in a safe space. No space is safe for us. No system is safe for us. We can’t risk our lives on any brahminical structure or system anymore. I failed Lakhbir Singh. We failed Lakhbir and his family and the families of thousands of our people. And we’ve been continuously failing them, us and ourselves”, learn an Instagram put up by one Ambedkarite after the brutal killing of Lakhbir Singh by Nihang Sikhs on the Kundli border, the place ‘farmers’ are protesting.
The operative phrase within the put up was, after all, the “Brahminical structure or system” and the put up opened with the way it ought to hang-out each “peaceful protestor” who didn’t do something to cease the lynching and each soul who “betrayed the gurus by being a tool and witness to oppression”.
Lakhbir Singh who was brutally murdered by Nihang Sikhs had reached the farmer protest web site on the Kundli border per week in the past. The locals have been reported as saying that he was there to do sewa and was usually seen within the Gurudwara arrange on the protest web site.
Essentially, Lakhbir Singh was a Punjabi himself who was on the protest web site to do ‘sewa’. He was murdered by Nihang Sikhs who’re thought of to be the warrior class established by Guru Gobind Singh himself. The protestors on the web site are additionally Sikhs, the staunchest varieties. In reality, the protest web site even has Khalistanis who need an ‘independent Punjab’ and worship Khalistani terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who murdered 1000’s of Hindus. When a video of Lakhbir Singh went viral, hung from the police barricade, one might see the poster of Bhindranwale within the background.
Screengrab of the video the place poster of Bhindranwale is seen
The Khalistan motion and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale itself was extraordinarily anti-Hindu and anti-Brahmin. In his e-book, Khushwant Singh wrote about how the Khalistan motion was anti-Hindu.
Khushwant Singh’s e-book
Bhindranwale would, in derision, name Indira Gandhi a ‘panditain’ or ‘Bahmani’. In his speeches, he had requested to kill 32 Hindus so the complete Hindu inhabitants could be “taken care of”. He used to name Hindus as Dhotian and Topian wale.
It is recorded historical past that Khalistanis had thrown a cow head contained in the Durgiana temple.
In 1982, in what was a very unprovoked assault, the Dal Khalsa “activists” threw a severed cow head inside Durgiana temple. pic.twitter.com/IAGQqpkX7Z— Bharadwaj (@BharadwajSpeaks) January 26, 2021
n 1982, Khalistani radicals hung tail of a cow contained in the Mahakali temple of Patiala. Devotees have been shocked to see the tail of a cow hung contained in the Garba Griha of the temple.
In 1982, Khalistani radicals hung tail of a cow contained in the Mahakali temple of Patiala. Devotees have been shocked to see the tail of a cow hung contained in the Garba Griha of the temple. pic.twitter.com/K6ldeIkVZW— Bharadwaj (@BharadwajSpeaks) January 26, 2021
It can also be recorded historical past that Brahmins have been the favorite goal of Khalistanis.
Brahmins have been a favourite goal of Khalistani activists. Bhindranwale’s rhetoric regularly centred on anti Brahmanism. On twenty fifth June 1983, a Pujari of a temple in Sultanpur was kiIIed with a pointy knife. pic.twitter.com/HtFoSOzFnW— Bharadwaj (@BharadwajSpeaks) January 26, 2021
With the Khalistani motion being anti-Hindu and anti-Brahmin particularly, it’s a surprise how the homicide of a Sikh man by Sikh radicals turned a burden that Hindus and/or Brahmins need to bear.
Hindus and even Brahmins and even Dalit Hindus had nothing to do with the brutal incident on the Kundli border.
But that Instagram put up was not the one one blaming the ‘caste politics’ of Hindus for the incident. Several different Ambedkarites began enjoying their caste politics to deliver Hindus down.
Dilip Mandal, who sees caste all over the place and has been accused of discriminating in opposition to Brahmin college students took to Twitter to say that Dalits are oppressed all over the place, typically for touching meals, typically for ‘idols’ and typically for books.
कोई खाना छू देने पर मार देता है, कोई मूर्ति छूने पर पीट देता है, कोई धार्मिक किताब छूने पर मार देता है। साबित करो कि तुम लोग आदमी ही हो।— Dilip Mandal (@Profdilipmandal) October 15, 2021
Quoting a video of one of many Nihangs speaking about how Sikhs homicide individuals who insult the Guru Granth Sahib, Ambedkarites stated that the reality is that he was murdered as a result of he made the e-book impure by touching it, since he was a Dalit Sikh. While that perhaps what the Nihangs had thought, the incident had nothing to do with Hindus.
The reality is Lakhbir Singh was killed for touching a spiritual e-book. It get polluted by the contact of a SC labourer. So they killed him to take care of the purity. Shame! #JusticeForLakhbirSingh pic.twitter.com/9ShP1Y0xDh— Suraj Kumar Bauddh (@SurajKrBauddh) October 15, 2021
Lakhbir was killed bcoz he was a SC labourer and touched a spiritual e-book. The argue of ‘बेअदब’ (insult) displays their caste supremacy as they thinks {that a} SC polluted the e-book by contact. #JusticeForLakhbirSingh pic.twitter.com/fO99BIKUUw— Mission Ambedkar (@MissionAmbedkar) October 15, 2021
#JusticeForLakhbirSinghDalit ought to work on fieldsDalit ought to clear sewerDalit ought to clear their homesButDalit shouldn’t contact their holy bookSharamnak— Pooja yadav (@Poojayadav676ii) October 15, 2021
While caste discrimination is a actuality amongst Sikhs, the insinuation of the posts have been extraordinarily clear. They repeatedly equated the Nihangs thought of Dalit Sikhs as impure whereas drawing a false equivalence to Hindus in an try and tarnish Hinduism.
The bane of Dalit Activists of our instances is that they hardly stand for the rights of the marginalised and converse up for Scheduled Caste people who is likely to be getting persecuted. What they do is, as an alternative, stand in opposition to Hinduism and each incident is was a caste battle simply to drag Hindus down. The insinuation that Lakhbir Singh was killed due to the “Brahminical structure” was evident from the primary Instagram put up and most different posts that attempted to distract from the principle problem – Pious Sikhs who have been part of the farmers protest brutally murdered a person on the protest web site of Samyukt Kisan Morcha.
The blame for the stunning incident lies with the Sikh neighborhood, the Nihangs and the “farmers” who’ve indulged in rampant violence ever for the reason that protests in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines started.
The disingenuity of their argument is clear after they want to examine the “upper caste Jatt Sikhs” to Brahmins, insinuating that the “upper caste Sikhs” observe the Brahminical construction.
One remembers how Mukesh, a Brahmin man was burnt alive just a few months in the past by these very Farmers and Jatt Sikhs.
Mukesh, 42, was the eldest of Jagdish Chandra’s three kids. On June 16, 2021, Mukesh succumbed to burn accidents after fellow farmer protestors allegedly set him ablaze on the Tikri border protest web site. Villagers had then alleged that Mukesh’s homicide was a conspiracy to make him seem as a ‘martyr’ in opposition to the farm legal guidelines.
OpIndia talked to the bereaved mom, who remains to be discovering it arduous to come back to grips with the truth that her son was allegedly killed by agitators pretending to be preventing for the rights of farmers. Shakuntala, Mukesh’ mom remembers her son left the home on Wednesday night for a stroll to the close by subject. When we requested her who killed her beloved son, Shakuntala says the protesters killed him. Mukesh had that night gone for a stroll to the close by subject, the place farmers protesting in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines had put up their tents.
Even when Mukesh had been killed, the ‘farmers’ had tried to divert any accountability from themselves and tweeted an unclear video, claiming that the farmers had not set Mukesh on hearth. However, OpIndia had accessed his dying declaration the place he clearly stated that it was the “farmers” who had set him on hearth.
It would seem that each time brutality is unleashed by these farmers, there foot troopers try and defend the motion by floating a grand narrative that diverts consideration from the actual problem. When Mukesh was murdered by the farmers, the grand narrative was {that a} conspiracy was being hatched to “defame” the farmers motion. Even now, when Lakhbir Singh was murdered, a number of people claimed that he was despatched by the “agencies”.
It would now seem to be the Ambedkarites have resorted to shielding the farmers by speaking about “caste construct” and blaming Hindus for an incident that was perpetrated by the Nihang Sikh on the web site of the farmers’ protest. While caste exists amongst Sikhs, the homicide of Lakhbir Singh definitely has nothing to do with Hindus or Brahmins. It is a product of Khalistani parts and Nihang Sikhs being a violent lot and the farmers protest harbouring terrorists who first killed Mukesh, a Brahmin man and have now murdered Lakhbir Singh. Any try and divert the dialog from the culpability of Khalistani parts and the farmers themselves is one which whitewashes the crime and denies justice to Lakhbir.