#NoMoreSellingVotes – #TheOneThatBringsPower

#NoMoreSellingVotes – #TheOneThatBringsPower

Dear BC (Backward Classes) voters in the Sarpanch elections of Telangana!

Please elect only BC candidates as Sarpanch. This is not an ordinary election. The victory of a BC Sarpanch in a village is a symbol of victory in the struggle for the self-respect of the BC community.

Even though a decade has passed since the formation of Telangana state, and even though BCs constitute the majority population in most villages, leadership has remained only in the hands of other dominant castes. It is high time the BC society realises this truth.

The ongoing Sarpanch elections are not ordinary elections. BCs need strong leadership to attain political power. Therefore, understand that these Sarpanch elections will decide whether leadership should come to BCs or whether BCs should remain merely as vote banks.

Why must a BC Sarpanch win?

 ✔️The entire village panchayat budget will be in their hands,

 ✔️Development contracts will go wherever they decide,

 ✔️Jobs and welfare schemes in the village will reach whomever they want,

 ✔️Respect in society, decision-making power, and real strength – everything depends on who the Sarpanch is.

In villages where BCs are in the majority, it has been a decades-old practice that leadership goes to dominant castes. Now is the time to change that situation. Respect exists only where there is power; control over wealth exists only where there is power.

Dominant castes will beg for votes, join hands, speak sweet lies. But once they get the vote and sit in the chair, they don’t care about BCs at all.That is why this time, realise that the vote is not to be given to those who distribute money, pour liquor, or serve biryani. The vote is a powerful weapon that will determine our future and our children’s future. With this strong tool, let us change our lives.Every vote we cast for dominant castes is a foundation stone we ourselves lay for strengthening our own enslavement.When villages are filled with BCs… the Sarpanch chair must also belong to BCs.“We are the majority in our own village…

Yet if power is not in our hands, it is our mistake, the mistake we ourselves are making.”

Therefore,

This time in Telangana, elect only BC candidates as Sarpanches. With the cooperation of SCs, STs, and minorities, win the Sarpanch seats. Strengthen the Bahujan ideology, win together, cooperate with each other.

Let us take Izzat – Honour – Power (Hukumat) into our own hands.

BC vote – only to BC candidate.

This is not just about making one candidate win — it is about building the political future of the entire BC community.

If we do not want to keep begging dominant castes for our rights,

If we want our rights to be in our own hands…

Leadership must come to BCs right from the village level.

Jai Phule, Jai Bhim, Jai BC Sarpanch!–

 T. Chiranjeevulu

(Retired IAS & Chairman, BC Intellectuals Forum)