Comrade!
We know your love for Dalits since Dr. Ambedkar’s time. If you have forgotten, let me remind you what CPI founding member, Shripad Amrit Dange, had said during 1952 elections. In his vile call to the voters, he asked to spoil their ballots in the reserved constituency for Central Bombay rather than vote for Dr. Ambedkar. Dr. Ambedkar lost the election and attributed his defeat to communist campaign.
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मायावती ने परिवार के लोगों को सांत्वना देते हुये कहा कि रोहित वेमुला को आत्महत्या ने देश के लोगों को बेचैन कर दिया है।
लखनऊ : बहुजन समाज पार्टी की राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष, सांसद (राज्यसभा) व पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री, उत्तर प्रदेश मायावती ने आज यहाँ अपने नई दिल्ली निवास पर हैदराबाद सेन्ट्रल यूनिवर्सिटी में पी.एच.डी. के दलित छात्र रहे रोहित वेमुला के शोक-संतृप्त परिवार से मुलाकात की और उनकी दुःख भरी आपबीती सुनी।
रोहित वेमुला की माँ और भाई ने मायावती से अपनी मुलाकात के दौरान विस्तार से बताया कि किस प्रकार से केन्द्र के दो मंत्रियों के दबाव में श्री वेमुला को प्रताड़ित किया जाता रहा, जिस कारण अन्ततः उसे आत्महत्या के लिये मजबूर होना पड़ा।
उन्होंने बताया कि इस दर्दनाक घटना के सम्बन्ध में संसद के दोनों सदनों में सरकार ख़ासकर मानव संसाधन मन्त्री स्मृति ईरानी की ओर से कितनी ज्यादा ग़लतबयानी करके देश की जनता को गुमराह किया जा रहा है। इस कारण उन्हें नहीं लगता है कि केन्द्र की भाजपा सरकार उनके बेटे को उसकी मौत के बाद भी इन्साफ दिला पायेगी।
रोहित वेमुला के परिवार वालों ने बी.एस.पी. प्रमुख का शुक्रिया अदा किया कि उन्होंने अन्य बातों के साथ-साथ न्यायिक जाँच आयोग में दलित समाज के व्यक्ति को रखने की ज़ोरदार मांग सदन में और सदन के बाहर भी की, परन्तु केन्द्र सरकार ने इसे मानने से इन्कार कर दिया, जिससे उसकी नीयत में खोट साफ तौर पर लगता है। श्री वेमुला पर इतनी ज्यादा जुल्म-ज्यादती करने के बाद अब उसकी जाँच निष्पक्ष हो यह भी केन्द्र सरकार को मंजूर नहीं है। इससे इनकी दलित-विरोधी मानसिकता का भी पर्दाफाश होता है।
मायावती ने परिवार के लोगों को सांत्वना देते हुये कहा कि रोहित वेमुला को आत्महत्या हेतु मजबूर करने के अत्यन्त ही दुःखद मामले ने देश के लोगों को बेचैन कर दिया है और दलितों के साथ-साथ वे लोग भी रोहित वेमुला को न्याय दिलाने के लिये उस घटना के दोषी लोगों को सजा दिलाने के लिये लगातार ही संघर्षरत हैं।
SAFEGUARDS IN THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION FOR SCHEDULED CASTES
AND SCHEDULED TRIBES
The important Constitutional safeguards for SCs & STs are mentioned below:
(a) Directive Principles of State Policy
Article 46 is a comprehensive article comprising both the developmental and regulatory aspects. It reads as follows:
“The State shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections, of the people, and in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation”.
(b) Social Safeguards
Article 17. “Untouchability” is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of “Untouchability” shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law.
To give effect to this Article, Parliament made an enactment viz., Untouchability (Offences) Act, 1955. To make the provisions of this Act more stringent, the Act was amended in 1976 and was also renamed as the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955. As provided under the Act, Government of India also notified the Rules, viz., the PCR Rules, 1977, to carry out the provisions of this Act. As cases of atrocities on SCs/STs were not covered under the provisions of PCR Act, 1955, Parliament passed another important Act in 1989 for taking measures to prevent the atrocities. This act known as the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, became effective from 30.1.1990. For carrying out the provisions of this Act the Govt. of India have notified the SCs and the STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Rules, 1995 on 31.3.1995.
Article 23. Prohibits traffic in human beings and begar and other similar forms of forced labour and provides that any contravention of this provision shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law. It does not specifically mention SCs & STs but since the majority of bonded labour belong to SCs/STs this Article has a special significance for SCs and STs. In pursuance of this article, Parliament has enacted the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. For effective implementation of this Act, the Ministry of Labour is running a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for identification, liberation and rehabilitation of bonded labour.
Article 24 provides that no child below the age of 14 years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment. There are Central and State laws to prevent child labour. This article too is significant for SCs and STs as a substantial portion, if not the majority, of child labour engaged in hazardous employment belong to SCs and STs.
Article 25(2)(b) provides that Hindu religious institutions of a public character shall be thrown open to all classes and sections of Hindus. This provision is relevant as some sects of Hindus used to claim that only members of the concerned sects had a right to enter their temples. This was only a subterfuge to prevent entry of SC persons in such temples. For the purpose of this provision the term Hindu includes Sikh, Jaina and Budhist.
Educational and Cultural Safeguards
Article 15(4) empowers the State to make any special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for SC and ST. This provision has enabled the State to reserve seats for SCs and STs in educational institutions including technical, engineering and medical colleges and in Scientific & Specialised Courses. In this as well as in Article 16(4)the term ‘backward classes’ is used as a generic term and comprises various categories of backward classes, viz., Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Denotified Communities (Vimukta Jatiyan) and Nomadic/Seminomadic communities.
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Dr. Ambedkar’s Perspective on Restructuring Indian Nation in the context of Dalit Question
Written by – Sukhadeo Thorat
Introduction
The Caste System in its classical form is an unique institution of social governance of the Hindu society. It is based on some specific principles and rules which make it an unique one. Foremost of them is that it involve a division of persons in various social groups called castes The division is created and maintained through institution of endogamy. The duties and the rights, (civil, cultural/religious, political and economic) are assigned to each of these castes by birth in advanced but in an unequal manner . The duties and rights are thus pre-determined by birth in to the specific caste and are hereditary ,not subject to change by deeds of the individuals . The social position or standing of each caste is hierarchically arranged , in the sense that the rights gets reduced in descending order, that is , from the Brahmin( who are located at the top of hierarchy) to the untouchable ,who are placed at the bottom of the caste hierarchy .The caste are hierarchically arranged in a manner that they are interlinked with each other such that rights and privileges of the high castes become the disabilities of the lower castes .In this sense caste does not exist in single number but only in plural , and interlinked (or made interdependent) with each in an unequal measure of relationship. Therefore one has to look at castes as “system” and not caste as single entity in isolation. Another distinguish feature of this system is that it laid down a systematic machanism for enforcement in the form of social and economic ostracism involving penalties and punishments against the violation of the system in practice. But above all the system is sanctified and supported, directly or indirectly by the philosophical elements in Hindu religion. Therefore for generality of Hindus the caste system is religiously sanctified institution to be practice as system of divine creation and matter of religious faith. It is this religious foundation and sanctity, which provide enduring strength and stubbiness to the institution of caste (Lal Deepak, 1984, Ambedkar 1936 and 1987 )
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Behan Mayawati’s speech at Rajya Sabha on Rohith Vemula issue
We are not convinced by the government’s clarification, will (Manu) Smriti Irani chop off her head now? – Asks Behan Mayawati in RS today.
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