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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Who is a Bhaiya? -Prabhash K Dutta

Who is a Bhaiya? -Prabhash K Dutta

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published Published on Feb 18, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 19, 2022

-IndiaToday.in

Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi courted controversy with remarks he made recently about "UP, Bihar de bhaiye" at a poll rally in Punjab.

This week, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi brought 'bhaiya' back into political business. Flanked by senior Congress party colleague Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, CM Channi told an election audience that he "will not let the 'Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi de bhaiye', who have come here to rule, enter" the state.

Bhaiya, literally a reference to an elder brother, is otherwise a word of address to convey respect to somebody more experienced or wiser. But this is not the sense you convey or get when you address an autowallah or a vegetable vendor, or some stranger addresses you (if you are a man) using the word.

In a metropolitan set-up, 'bhaiya' is often used for somebody doing what is viewed as a menial job or employed in a blue-collar sector. The original connotation of respect that the word carried has been transformed into a resident sense of disdain towards the person who is being addressed.

Bhaiya is suitable for a lift attendant, a rickshaw-puller, a construction worker, the one who is sanitising your hands at the gates of metro train station or a hawker struggling to keep his energy level shouting to sell a pair of earphones at traffic signals while you are returning home after a busy day at office. But the same 'bhaiya' word is hard to be heard in a five-star hotel, pub or even airports.

The word 'bhaiya' is essentially now part of an economic trend in India. It emerged from the economic disparity in growth. But this economic disparity is also politics. The 'bhaiya' politics possibly took its roots in Maharashtra as the Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray looked to deepen his party's roots away from the Mumbai-Pune region.

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IndiaToday.in, 18 February, 2022, https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/bhaiya-uttar-pradesh-up-bihar-punjab-channi-1914880-2022-02-18


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