Words like freedom, equality, secularism, and dignity, etc. written under the constitution often pour us into a feeling of pride and how marvelous our India is. Does it hold or is it just lying in a certain piece of paper? Better ask a marginalized community or a vulnerable group of society, for whom the access to these great words is far away, who is a victim of disdainful cast hierarchy, raising voice is not less than a crime, for which they bear a huge cost in terms of rape, murder, and violence. They are hardly entitled to any rights. One cannot understand their situation, obviously, but may get an idea of the acrid veracity of India that aspires to achieve SDGs by 2030, in which the goals of Reduced Inequalities, Gender Equality, and Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions also falls.
The Hathras case caught the limelight due to the intolerable
cremation of the deceased woman by cops without the nod and presence of family,
which cannot be accepted in any aspect, it is completely a wicked deed, unless
no one cares. And the BJP lawmaker just do away with by saying police have violated
the right to religious belief, oh really? Is it mere a contravention to the
right to religious belief? Ask the kins of her family, what it feels not being
able to complete the end rituals and the sorrow of not meeting their daughter
for the last time, every right got snatched at that moment. After all death and
birth are the two most precious times of human life.
People say that giving a job, house, and compensation
is enough to do justice. The government cannot compensate for the loss of a daughter
that the family has lost due to the ego of the upper caste family. She muttered
the name of preparators, days before succumbing to death. Police are denying the
allegation of rape citing the forensic test report which seems to be distorted
as the sample did not go for testing, earlier. She found in an entirely naked situation,
bleeding vagina, damaged spinal cord, and slashed tongue. It may be the case of
honor killing or rape, not cleared yet. But no evidence could be bigger than
the victim herself naming the culprits, why don’t you catch those culprits and put
them behind the bars. Why are you sheltering the criminal? What was the reason
to impose 144 in Hathras? Why the police are restricting the entry of media, Why
the authority is afraid of transparency, if not hiding facts? It is surely an
incident of choking on democracy to death.
Also, have a look at CM Yogi’s mindset, a few years
back he wrote a misogynist essay that reflected “Women not capable of being
left free or independent”. And now doing drama of favoring the woman and her kins.
How the state can overcome the challenge of rising cases against women when the
leader is against empowering them? How the misogynist lense can agree to the
policies that empower women? Who will ensure that the women are safe in Uttar Pradesh?
No matter how well the UP government is doing in ease
of doing business, in building an expressway for boosting exports, constructing
Ram temple, and also the plaza, but if it is not capable enough to facilitate
safe haven to women, then it has failed somewhere. It is empowering the upper
caste community; could be depicted through its inclination to provide the gun
license to Brahmins for safeguarding themselves. The Yogi government would have
desired to build a state where women could have step out freely along with the restoration
of democracy. The reason why rapists slit her tongue, is, they wanted to show
that the Dalit woman does not possess the freedom to speak and she must not
forget limits that the society has fixed. It is rather India where the patriarchy
and caste hierarchy cannot let bridge the gap of gender, caste, and income inequality.
