Arun Singh Empowerment does not come by just building monuments or entering temples or by eating food together. Empowerment comes from economic development, access to modern education, markets for labour work or products in urban areas, aceess to healthcare and building awareness of laws & fundamental rights as laid down by the Law. Else as soon as the law & oder machinery falls slack we will see explotation of the poor & backward. This society respects people with money or economic musle. In fact one of Mayawati's biggest blunders has been the refusal to Reliance Fresh. Reliance Fresh for example could have cut through the chain of middlemen/dealers in agricultural produce of the poor farmers and labourers ensuring they get a fair price and return on their investment & labour. Any economically empowered backward community will automatically develop political might and relevance which can end exploitation. All these statues and grand memorials are mere tokenism and only useful to the birds like Crows & Pigeons who perch and shit on each one of them. A small PHC or school is thousand times more valuable than a statue or memorial
