Senior Congress leader and AICC media incharge Randeep Singh Surjewala on Sunday alleged that the BJP is undertaking a sinister conspiracy to abolish the constitutional guarantee of reservation.
This is depicted by the statements of RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat and Sar Sanghchalak, Manmohan Vaidya, who have spoken about ‘reconsideration of reservation’ to ‘abolition of reservation as it divides society’, said the Congress leader, while addressing a state-level ‘Garib Sammelan’ in Kaithal.
He also gave a clarion call to the Valmiki-Dalit communities to fight a decisive battle for uprooting the Modi and Khattar governments from the Centre and State respectively.
Describing the abolition of ‘SC Sub Plan’ in Centre and States as a concerted treachery, Surjewala said that this is a deceptive ploy to abolish the share of Scheduled Castes in the resources of the state. Direct consequence of abolishing the ‘SCs Sub Plan’ would hit the allocation of SCs Welfare Schemes abrogating the claim of the poor over distribution of resources for their benefit, he added.
Citing the anti-dalit mindset of Modi and Khattar Governments, Surjewala said that in Haryana, even elected BJP MlAs of Valmiki communities are facing threat to life as also humiliation.
Quoting government data on dalit atrocities, Surjewala said that a dalit is attacked in India every 9 minutes, yet BJP government remains a mute spectator.
NCRB figures reflect that cases of dalit atrocities in the year 2013 were 39,408 and they increased to 45,003 in the year 2015 and as per an estimate, have increased to 60,000 in the year 2016. This means that the figure of atrocities has virtually doubled, he added.
The Congress leader said that Valmiki and Dalit communities need to determinedly fight against this injustice meted out by BJP.