Upset for 'innocent Thakurs' in the Brahmin locality of Boolgadhi, no regret for the victim; Brahmins and Valmiki don't even want to see each other

Posted on 5th Oct 2020 by rohit kumar

A potter, a barber, four Valmiki, and about sixty Brahmin and Thakur families. Boolgadhi village is as big as this. A month ago, the lives of the people here were limited to their fields. Some of the men in the village go to Hathras and surrounding cities to work. Two and a half hundred rupees a day. Otherwise, most of them work on farms. Women raise their hands and daughters are limited to household chores.

 

Police vehicles are coming along the road connecting the village to the main road. Police barricades have also increased. Shortly before I reached here on Sunday, the police lathi-charged the Rashtriya Lok Dal workers. Slippers are scattered on the road. The dust from the stampede had not yet seated that a group of youths moving towards the police barricade turned into a crowd, shouting slogans.

 

The sloganeering intensified as the media cameras moved towards it. Some youths have a bare waist and fists have been stretched. They are demonstrating the power of the upper caste society in support of the accused. Seven kilometers away from the house of former MLA Rajvir Pahalwan, the effect of the upper caste panchayat is also visible here. There are open slogans against the gang-rape accused and the Bhima Army.

 

About a hundred meters away from here, some journalists have been languishing near the second police barricade. Not paying much attention to the ruckus that is happening here, they are waiting for the Bhima Army leader Chandrashekhar to arrive. The news of Chandrashekhar's arrival has heated the atmosphere. Some youths of the upper caste group are agitated. They do not want to let Chandrasekhar enter the village. Meanwhile, suddenly a convoy of administration trains arrives and quickly enters the village. Chandrasekhar was in one of these vehicles.

 

The police in the village are very vigilant. Armed soldiers stand on the roof of the houses of the accused. Policemen wearing riot gear are ready to deal with any situation. After meeting the victim's family, the police are speeding towards Chandrashekhar towards the vehicles. Walking out, Chandrasekhar says, "My family is not safe here, very soon I will take my family with me." Within minutes, the police get away with Chandrashekhar.

 

The street leading from the back of the victim's house reaches the Brahmins' locality. Women are standing at the doors. Mouths are closed and eyes are in question. How long will everything be fine, a lady asks. When will the media people leave from here? The time to sow potatoes has come. All our business has stopped. They go on duty until we return home, we are worried whether the police will allow us to enter the village.

 

I was talking to this woman that a woman wearing a colorful sari would hold my hand and ask, 'Daughter, just tell me whether Ramu will be missed or not. The poor person listens loudly, is very straight, the cow is the cow. Ramu is one of the four accused who have been arrested for alleged gang rape. He is a father of three children and performs duty on dairy.

 

A young man sitting outside his house says, "Sandeep doesn't know, but three boys have been implicated innocent." If Ramu is hanged, then the cow is cut. Then nothing will ever be right in this village. ' The people of Brahmin locality are deeply saddened by Ramu's going to jail. Another young man sitting there says that to save him, we will die. We gathered and were thinking of encircling the jail.

 

We were talking that a Valmiki boy comes out hauling pigs. On seeing this, women shrink their mouths. One woman says, if we ingest pig in our standing crop, we cannot say anything. He could not even fulfill his point that a man says, 'My five bighas have eaten half of the arhar crop, but I did not say anything. If you sue in Harijan Act then who will face it.

 

There is an atmosphere of curiosity about the arrival of Chandrashekhar Azad (leader of Bhima Army) here. Women want to know what 'Ravana' looks like. A woman wants to watch Chandrasekhar's video by taking my phone. Seeing them, she says, "Hey, he is a man like us." There was so much chaos since morning, Ravana is coming, will set the whole village on fire and now no one can stop being hanged.

 

I want to talk about the incident on 14 September at Bajre's farm. But women want to draw my attention to the problems of the village. She takes me to a dirty drain and says, 'Trouble is that the drain does not clean at all, mosquitoes eat and make dengue in deo gram. Sickness is spreading, no workers are admitted. Don't even lie Someone has come to this game for years. The mosquito does not give a son at night. Inspection media is coming, but no one can see this drain.

 

Although the victim's house is not far away from here, but no one is aware of him. Or they don't want to talk. Women say, we don't go that way, they are Valmiki, we are Brahmins.

 

The victim's family wants to leave the village. These women say, 'Got so much money, got a house, got a job, now what will they do while staying here. Go away, but the atmosphere of the village will not be cured now. ' He is more concerned about being trapped by 'innocent Thakurs' than regretting the death of a girl. The term narco is new to her but she uses it frequently. She says, "Now only narco will come out. If these girls are so true then why not get the narco done?

 

A young man, who describes himself as Sandeep's friend, says, "Sandeep's fault is that he fell in love with the Valmiki girl." He was also beaten many times in the house with this. She even sold her sister's earrings to spend. ' When I asked him if that girl also loved him, he could not answer this question.

 

It is now discussed in the village that the victim and Sandeep already knew each other. But did they know beforehand, no one would reply to this. A woman says, "These tasks are done in secret, which is known." Sandeep's friend says, 'He used to call her at home from different numbers. The girl's family had complained about this by visiting Sandeep's house, her father had beaten her a lot.

 

On the other hand, the media crowd has sorted out from the victim's house. The male family is still locked in the room. They no longer want to talk. Women are trying to do household chores. The newborn daughter is glued to the victim's sister-in-law's lap The other daughter lying on the bed, staring at the terrace with a bottle of milk in her mouth. Weeping behind the third mother. When the victim's sister-in-law also breaks down and weeps, the relatives who come home hug her and say, "Don't you lose courage, you are the one who is fighting the most." What will happen to this family if you lose courage?

 

The victim was also the third daughter of his family. In every corner of the house, there is a lack of him, but there is no trace of his presence. The 19-20-year-old girl was a support for her sister-in-law at home. The whole world for mother. A responsibility for the father which he wanted to fulfill by marrying as soon as possible.

 

What was his existence? What did she think? What were his dreams It will never be known now? His untimely death has turned the wheel of time in Boolgadhi village. No one knows where he will stay now. Her pyre, burnt in the fields far from the village, has now cooled down. But the country is burning in the questions raised by its flames.