- Ashish Devrari & Rajesh Tyagi/ 29 Jan 2018
Yuva Hunkar Rally organized jointly by supporters of Stalinists and Ambedkarites on January 9, at Jantar Mantar, failed to muster any political response or even convey any message, alongside its failure to mobilize even a thousand of audience.
Rally was organized chiefly by Jignesh Mewani, newly elected MLA from Vadgam in Gujarat, who expected to make more fortunes in bourgeois political corridors by tapping to casteist identity politics through this rally. Stalinists and other fringe elements were tagged to the rally as an appendage to give the otherwise apparently reactionary caste politics, a democratic face.
Despite all bragging by the organizers of the rally, police or administration made no real attempts to block the rally in any way. However, the arrangements it made at Jantar Mantar for the rally, proved to be futile in view of very low turnout.
Rally was organized chiefly by Jignesh Mewani, newly elected MLA from Vadgam in Gujarat, who expected to make more fortunes in bourgeois political corridors by tapping to casteist identity politics through this rally. Stalinists and other fringe elements were tagged to the rally as an appendage to give the otherwise apparently reactionary caste politics, a democratic face.
Despite all bragging by the organizers of the rally, police or administration made no real attempts to block the rally in any way. However, the arrangements it made at Jantar Mantar for the rally, proved to be futile in view of very low turnout.
