Are Dalit politicians fair to Muslims?
Neither Muslim masses nor Muslim leaders are opposed to an electoral/political understanding between Muslims and Dalits in order to remove the oppression of both communities. But Muslims are not willing to help in the unleashing of a caste based confrontation between two segments of Hindus (upper castes vs lower castes), or between Hindus and Muslims. Unfortunately the Dalit Voice magazine (Editor: Raj Shekhar Reddy) and a few Dalit politicians have for some time, blamed the Muslim community leaders for preventing this coalition from taking shape. He also blames the Muslim leaders for oppressing the so called “low caste Muslims”. 140 million Indian Muslims are already a very weak community in all respects. It will be suicidal for them to weaken themselves further by dividing the community between so called “upper caste Muslims – Ashraf ” and “low caste Muslims – Ajlaf”, that some Dalit politicians are trying to create. In the Muslim community there has never been any real separation on
