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Hyderabad, Oct.22 (PMI): CPI State secretary Koonamneni Sambasiva Rao today said the rights enshrined in the Constitution for the uplift of Dalits were still not reaching them even after 77 years of Independence.
The 2nd National Conference of the All India Dalit Rights Action Committee (AIDRM) was held at Raj Bahadur Gaur Hall in Himatnagar here under the chairmanship of K. Yesu Ratnam. The meeting was attended by CPI national executive members Chada Venkatreddy, Koonamneni Sambasiva Rao, CPI State secretariat members M Bala Narasimha, CPI Ranga Reddy district secretary Palamakula Jangayya and Medchal district secretary DJ Sail Goud.
Speaking on the occasion, Rao said there was a flaw in the efforts of governments to provide equitable justice. He said the All India Dalit Rights Movement was an organisation that had been fighting for social justice, abolition of business of education and medical business across the country, against corruption, employment opportunities, for the development of the marginalised working Dalits, who have been crushed by oppression, untouchability, discrimination and exploitation for generations.
Chada said the Dalits across the country did not have minimum protection. “According to the Ministry of Social Justice, there have been nearly two lakh attacks against the Dalits since Modi became Prime Minister. It has become a common practice under the BJP rule to target the Dalits on every small matter. Urinating on a tribal man, stripping of two tribal girls in Manipur, who were stripped and paraded shocked the country. Nevertheless, Modi will not open his mouth on these issues. On the same sanatan dharma issue, he said, it would be part of inciting the people of the country to repel such attacks,” he said.
CPI State committee members Panuganti Parvatulu, DHPS State general secretary Maroopaka Anil Kumar, and Tallapalli Lakshman, Saliganti Srinivasa, K Ratnakumari, K Sahadev, A Rajkumar, J Kumar, K Rajaratnam, T Ramakrishna, B Lakshmipathy, Ushasri, Devi Pochanna and others participated in the meeting. (PMI)
