By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Mr Bharat Patankar has been a leading intellectual as well as political activist in Maharashtra with around fifty years of experience. His parents were part of the freedom movement and hence he was acquainted with their activities as well as meeting numerous political leaders and activists. Though he was a medical doctor, he plunged into social movement as the ideology of Satyashodhak attracted him. He led various movements for farmers, laborers, water and land rights of the people.
A strong believer in Phule-Ambedkarite ideology, Mr Patankar embraced Buddhism long back. He reinterpreted various cultural contexts for the Bahujan Community in India which are extremely important. In 1976 he and Gail Omvedt got married and started their life in Kasgaon, Maharashtra where both dedicated their life for the cause of people’s rights. We all are aware of the work done by Gail Omvedt towards strengthening the Phule Ambedkarite literature.
As Mayawati Turns 65, Her Biggest Challenge Remains Reviving Party and Facing Contenders
While the BSP supremo turns 65, the veteran politician faces the mammoth task of reviving her party.
Mayawati has also been considered as a strict and effective administrator, but in the current political scenario, the challenge remains before her to retain old leaders along with her vote bank.
BSP won the last state assembly elections in the state almost a decade ago. Since then, the party has stayed out of power. It will be interesting to watch how the party evolves for the upcoming 2022 state assembly elections.
It is the first time in her three-decade long political career that Mayawati had to lose four consecutive elections and at the same time deal with the rebelling party leaders. Since 2012, she has lost many veteran party leaders and also accused of giving party tickets in lieu of money. Despite these allegations, Mayawati has kept her vote bank intact, however not being able to
Mayawati Birthday Special: Lesser known facts about the four-time former Uttar Pradesh CM
Born on 15th January 1956, Mayawati turns 65. Here are some lesser known facts about the National President of the Bahujan Samaj Party
Mayawati s rise in politics was termed as a Miracle of Democracy by former Prime Minister of India P.V Narasimha Rao.
Born in Delhi, Mayawati s father Prabhu Ram was a post office employee. The prominent leader had to fight various battles in her life to reach where she is today.
Mayawati s brothers were sent to Private Schools for attaining education whereas she was sent to a Government School. Rising through the gender bias, the leader inculcated the passion to educate herself as much as she could.
Chadha dismissed the criticism as an example of “cancel culture” and urged her critics to see past the poster and appreciate the film’s “progressive and transformative” theme.
Political theorist and author Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd said caste prejudice was so ingrained that those who created the image ignored the fact that Mayawati was educated and worked as a teacher before becoming, as leader of the Bahujan Samaj party, the first woman chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. She served four terms.
“The director’s casteist mind and absolute stupidity [meant he] did not see her image with a human eye, rather he saw her image with a caste eye. Bollywood is so full of such casteist and foolish minds that they can hardly be expected to make what this film claims to be: a socially relevant and transformative film,” said Shepherd.
Serum Institute of India among Nationalist Congress Party’s top funders
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SII is in news currently as it is at the forefront of India’s vaccine development against COVID 19. Oxford-AstraZeneca’s vaccine is being manufactured by SII in India as Covishield.
NCP leader Sharad Pawar
NEW DELHI: The Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party cobbled together Rs 59.9 crore in 2019-20, the Lok Sabha election year, and among its biggest of donors is the world’s largest of vaccine makers Serum Institute of India.
SII is in news currently as it is at the forefront of India’s vaccine development against COVID 19. Oxford-AstraZeneca’s vaccine is being manufactured by SII in India as Covishield.