Patna, (Bihar Times): Though still a powerful minister in the Union cabinet and one of the most successful railway ministers of the country Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday said that the pangs suffered by being out of power can be realized only by him and his spouse Rabri Devi.“Only we know what it means to let power slip,”he told a mammoth congregation of a devotional folk and and spiritual mela on the occasion of the Bhagait Sammelan at Saharsa.
Speaking at the inaugural function he said that he refused to believe that the upper castes were repository of all wisdom and that they hold copyrights over all such saints. He made it amply clear that faith and reverence had no caste. “Great saints do not belong to any caste; instead they are for all” the railway minister said.
Lalu, who mixed philosophy with politics, said that he refused to accept that people with social power and background of birth were the sole custodians of rich social and cultural traditions. He said that though he was for the uplift of the poor among the upper castes there was no denying the fact that lower castes saints were denied proper place in history. Their works were forgotten and never compiled, he said. He cited the example of lower caste saint Karu Khirhari who attempted to usher a new social order above caste, creed and communal divide.
He regretted that it was the people of the region who let him down in the last assembly election when it was their own government in power.
