Writer and Dalit ideologue Kancha Ilaiah has stoked up yet another controversy by saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should make sadhus and priests clean up the streets as part of the Swachh Bharat campaign.
Dr. Ilaiah said that while Mr. Modi, who is from a backward community, had been seen with a broom sweeping the roads, his Cabinet colleagues, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Prakash Javedkar, had never been seen doing the same thing.
The controversial writer, who had recently faced the ire of Brahminical organisations after a speech in the CITU conference on May 14 on the origin of working classes, said that he never uttered any personal comments on Brahmin priests.
“In my wikipedia page, they have not mentioned that I have done a PhD on Buddhism. My paper was on “God as political philosopher- Buddha challenge to Brahminism.’’
He was speaking at a seminar on “Dignity of Labour and Caste,’’ organised by SC and ST Employees’ Federation here on Saturday.
Some of his Cabinet colleagues never swept roads like
Modi did, says Kancha Ilaiah
