The Congress leaders stressed the need to spread thoughts of Baba Saheb Dr BR Ambedkar who wrote the constitution of India and accused the BJP led Central Government for having anti-dalit mindset.
While speaking at a national seminar on "Dr BR Ambedkar and Constitution: Socio-economic Empowerment of Dalits" held at People’s Convention Centre in Sector 36 here on Sunday, Congress leaders warned people against the mischievous acts of the BJP Government for re-writing the history in its favour.
Shakeel Ahmad, general secretary, Congress said that the BJP has no role models and icons so it was trying to embrace the leaders like Baba Saheb Ambedkar and SardarVallahv Bhai Patel who never liked their ideology.
He said that the RSS and BJP leaders were always anti dalits. lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan spoke against the extension of the reservation. It shows the anti-dalit mindset of the BJP leaders, said Ahmed.
Kumari Selja, MP and former cabinet minister hit back on BJP for its anti-dalit approach. She said BJP Government issued more than 14 ordinances but deliberately avoided ordinance on the atrocity on the dalits.
She said it was only after the pressure of the Congress that the BJP passed the atrocity bill. She said that there was need to dispel the confusion regarding the reservation for the SC and ST as it was given through the constitution.
Selja also demanded law to give reservation in the promotion and said that the government should enact a law in this regard.
Speaking on the occasion, former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal stressed the need of the economical empowerment of the dalits. He said the benefit of the reservation should reach to the bottom of the society.
Bansal said that though the GDP of the country is increasing but the gap of the poor and the rich is increasing. We need to devise system so that the people of the bottom level should get the benefits of the reservation, said he.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Congress leader Geeta Bhukkal also attended the function.
Hooda said that the Congress Government had provided stipend to children to reduce the dropout rate in schools and also provided plots for their houses in Haryana .
Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar, ClP leader Kiran Choudhury and eminent speakers from Punjab University, Kurukshetra University and other educational institutions also delivered lectures on the thoughts of Dr Ambedkar.
The seminar was part of series of year-long celebration of 125th year of birth anniversary of Dr BR Amdedkar started by Congress.