If a large section of Dalits/Adivasis are poor and backward, our leaders have no moral right to expect us to join their mad endeavour of Dalit-Muslim unity. We simply cannot afford to leave our real issues behind just to support an ideology that gives us the options to “convert, leave or die” wherever and whenever it becomes dominant.
If we are serious about carrying on the legacy of Babasaheb, we must ensure that the people who lead us or claim to be our leaders should never fool us into treading a path which is, in essence, the same as that of Jogendra Nath.