Deepak Kumar Tyagi - Advocate, Independent Journalist, Columnist & Political Analyst
The voters of the Tyagi community have been voting for the BJP for a long time, due to which they have been labeled as hardcore voters of the BJP. Such is the emotional attachment to the BJP that no matter how much the party neglects the Tyagi community politically, the voters of the Tyagi community still vote for the BJP in large numbers, simply because they are imbued with the spirit of 'Nation First' and 'Hindutva'. However, this feeling of selfless loyalty is being misused by some people in the BJP; the people of the Tyagi community are being continuously ignored, and they are not being given respect and their designated rights even in the government and the organization. The Tyagi community, which is imbued with the spirit of Nation First and Hindutva, should have received a big reward from the party for being a hardcore supporter of the BJP, but for some unknown reason, today some people of the same BJP are bent on reducing the political existence of the Tyagi community. Due to this situation, many people of the Tyagi community, who are considered intellectuals, are now feeling neglected and cheated.
For the sake of the spirit of Nation First and the protection of Hindutva in the country, many politicians active in BJP politics from the Tyagi community are having to continuously sacrifice their political ambitions. Because the people of the Tyagi community have absolutely no share in the power of the BJP at the Center and in the states, there is not even a single Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MP from the Tyagi community in the country. In Uttar Pradesh, there is one MLA Ajit Pal Tyagi and one Legislative Council member Ashwini Tyagi, and even they were not made ministers. On the other hand, the party is not making any use of scholarly politicians like former minister Baleshwar Tyagi. No important responsibility is being given to former MLA Satyaveer Tyagi, Dr. Vireshwar Tyagi, who gave a long period of his life to the Sangh and the BJP, and former councilor Rajendra Tyagi. Apart from this, there are highly qualified leaders of every age group from the Tyagi community in the party, but most of them have been left as mere managers somewhere or the other; poor things remain engaged in the work given by the organization with full dedication in the hope of achieving success. Meanwhile, in the organization, the people of the Tyagi community have been limited to Panna Pramukh, Mandal President, Metropolitan and District Executive Committee, etc. Although in Uttar Pradesh, on the strength of his personal relations, Basant Tyagi has once again succeeded in becoming a minister in the state executive committee, that was possible only on the strength of Basant Tyagi's personal relations and qualities. Otherwise, there was a discussion in political corridors that by making Basant Tyagi the regional president, the party was working to remove the anger of the people of the Tyagi community, but sadly, let alone regional president, the party did not even promote Basant Tyagi, a situation which is not appropriate for the political existence of the Tyagi community. By the way, if the people of the Tyagi community assess impartially, their love for the BJP seems to be only one-sided for the sake of the spirit of Nation First and the protection of Hindutva in the country. Because if this state of love were from both sides, then such profound scholars and capable people of the Tyagi community would not have been ignored in this manner in the government and the organization. By the way, if viewed impartially, the entire Tyagi community is having to suffer tremendous loss due to this compulsion of loving and supporting the BJP for the sake of patriotism and the protection of Hindutva. For a few decades, politically, the people of the Tyagi community have suffered heavy losses; they have become marginalized in a way politically. Meanwhile, the Tyagi community is also being neglected by the people of the government and administration; they have to exert their level best even for their minor works. Moreover, if any unjust incident happens to any person of the Tyagi community, then the people of the Tyagi community have to take to the streets even to get them justice. To talk about the recent past, the heinous murder case of para-athlete Chirag Tyagi, an invaluable heritage of the country and a resident of Basantpur Saithli of Ghaziabad district, is an example of this.
By the way, the people of the Tyagi community, who are considered intellectuals, should also introspect as to why the Tyagi community, which once used to sit equally with Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and even Atal Bihari Vajpayee with full pride and self-respect and take important decisions related to the countrymen, has been out of the decision-making bodies at the district, state and national level for the last few decades. Even otherwise, in this poisonous era of casteism, the situation has become worth considering for the Tyagi community to save its political existence. Because the ruling party BJP is completely confident about the Tyagi community that due to the spirit of Nation First and ideological commitment towards Hindutva, the people of the Tyagi community will not vote for any party other than the BJP now, and even after tolerating lakhs of slights, the voter of the Tyagi community will not slip away anywhere from the BJP. It is due to this confidence that very cleverly, the politicians of the Tyagi community are sidelined by the national and state organization of the BJP, the central and state cabinet, and ticket distribution, etc. On the other hand, the problem of the politicians of the Tyagi community who are trying to make inroads into other political parties is that the top leadership of that party neglects them by saying that these people do not even have two votes of their own community, so why should they give respect, position, and ticket, etc., to the people of the Tyagi community. However, if by mistake an individual from the Tyagi community ever got a ticket from any other political party, the people of the Tyagi community, without accepting any kind of pressure or casteism and considering the spirit of Nation First and protection of Hindutva as paramount, did the work of voting only for the BJP candidate instead of voting for the candidate of their own Tyagi community. But sadly, even then, the Tyagi community is being kept away from participation in power and organization.
However, the way Sanatanis broke the bonds of caste in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and formed the Modi government at the Center under the leadership of Narendra Modi in the country, at that time it began to feel that at least now the end of caste-based politics from the country would definitely happen. In politics too, instead of the basis of caste, good people would get an opportunity to come forward, but sadly, this did not happen in the country. Although Hindus broke the caste barrier twice and united all Sanatanis to form the BJP government at the Center with a huge majority, in the gimmick to form the government for the third time, the ruling party came under the unethical pressure of the opposition's casteism and revived the poison of casteism in the country again. Now, by the grace of some momentarily selfish and extremely clever politicians, a tremendous dance of casteism is raging again across the country, a situation which is not proper for the nation and Hindutva. In such a worrying situation, it is at least the duty of the people of the Tyagi community, who are imbued with the spirit of Nation First and Hindutva, that while protecting national and Hindutva interests, they also take care of protecting their own rights and those of their children. But the situation is beyond comprehension as to why, despite the Tyagi community being hardcore voters of the BJP, the continuous participation of the Tyagi community in power and organization is being neglected by the ruling party. On this situation, some intellectual people of the Tyagi community allege that now the situation of neglect of the Tyagi community in the BJP does not look normal; rather, there is someone sitting in the ruling party who likes the people of the Tyagi community only as voters of the BJP, but does not like the people of the Tyagi community while giving them their designated rights and respect in power and organization. The people of the Tyagi community, on the condition of anonymity, allege that there is someone who is continuously working to tremendously mislead the top leadership of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the BJP about the Tyagi community. Therefore, the time has now come when the people of the Tyagi community, who are considered intellectuals, will have to introspect to save their political ground and to get their respect and designated rights from political parties, and will have to demand their rights and respect with complete unity. Only then can the political existence of the leaders of the Tyagi community remain safe in the politics of the Center and the states in the coming times.
Even otherwise, the top policy-makers, functionaries, and high command of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the BJP should also think that from the country's freedom struggle till today's era of nation-building, the Tyagi community has always sacrificed its personal interests and worked in the interest of the country and Hindus. With the same enthusiasm, the Tyagi community has been standing with the BJP for decades, but it seems that some politicians are taking unfair advantage of the BJP's one-sided support, considering it as a compulsion of the Tyagi community; some people are taking unfair advantage of the emotional and ideological attachment of the Tyagi community with the BJP. By the way, if viewed according to today's era, the Tyagi community itself is also responsible to a great extent for this condition, because despite being a hardcore supporter of the BJP, the biggest reason for political neglect has been the attitude of the people of the Tyagi community never getting organized and doing political bargaining with the leadership of the BJP. On the other hand, in other parties, the Tyagi community is neglected by traditionally considering them as hardcore and lumpsum voters of the BJP. Due to this situation, today the political existence of the Tyagi community is in danger in the country. At least the prominent people of the Tyagi community must understand now that, brother, in Kali Yuga, without crying, even a mother is not ready to feed milk to her children, then here it is a matter of taking the community's participation in the organization and power from powerful people intoxicated with power. Therefore, the powerful leaders of the Tyagi community will have to give up their ego and unite to give strength to the political leadership. Only then, in this terrible era of casteism in the country, can we work for the interest of the nation and Hindus while protecting our rights and the rights of our children, and remaining imbued with the spirit of Nation First and Hindutva.
