The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ideas are fatal to caste.
I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
We can't deny the existence of caste in India. We have to live with it.
There were many in the party that did not want me to run.
Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.