Paromita Das
New Delhi, 2nd May. Over the past six months, there has been a surge in caste-based profiles on all social media sites, coinciding with the growing excitement surrounding the election on the one hand. Caste-based accounts and groups began to appear on social media platforms like X, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Following the account’s launch, people began sharing motivational tales from their caste, the traits of heroes, and social information in the early stages. Their form began to change as the elections drew near. Gradually, an attempt was made to portray their own caste as the greatest and make others appear inferior by using all the caste-related accounts to remark on other matters.
Consequently, one caste would curse the other, and the second caste would curse the first. Additionally, many that visit these two handles and participate in order to support their own caste are unaware that they are condemning the other caste. They are all entangled in a virtual web of sorts. It has been observed frequently that the person managing these accounts is unrelated to that caste. Occasionally, it has been discovered that the same individual is opening accounts with several caste names.
The entire scheme’s opponents want to categorize Hindu society in order to prevent important decisions from being made in the nation and preserve the community’s unity. Currently, it is possible to prevent the nationalist party from crossing the winning threshold in the nation’s Lok Sabha elections. In lieu of the bright future of the nation, efforts are being made to establish a climate where voters view their candidate as a representative of their own caste. Fanning pre-planned concepts in the mind is the primary goal in stoking the fire of caste hatred.
People from other societies will actually need to comprehend, in such an environment, what the country’s pre-2014 state was and its current state is, even after so many years of freedom. The country’s cultural and religious transformation will require our assistance as we go beyond caste to consider the needs of the whole Hindu community. Personal and caste interests must not be our only considerations. Upon assuming the reins of power, the Prime Minister’s leadership abilities must be examined rather than the candidate’s caste. The Indi group, the opposition group, is attempting to return it to the circumstances that existed before independence. It is the responsibility of all social media users to contribute to closing the widening divide in society by refusing to be drawn in by the rhetoric of these caste-based accounts and by refusing to endorse them. Certainly, Bharat is heading toward its heyday. We need to rise above these ideologies with our ambition to be a super power.
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