By TCN News,
The National Coalition of about 500 Dalit and Adivasi organisations from all over the country appealed to the BJP-led NDA Government to move the long-delayed Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill at the earliest in the week commencing December 14 in the Rajya Sabha for consideration and passing in this session.
The Coalition also asked Congress, Left Parties and all other national and regional parties to actively cooperate and help in getting this legislation passed in Rajya Sabha, irrespective of their other differences.
The coalition believes that this will be a proper and concrete way of showing respect to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar in his 125th birth anniversary year.
Adding that the Dalits and Adivasis have long suffered inhuman atrocities like murders, mass-murders, social boycott and economic boycott, mass arsons, the coalition added that “Constitutional mandate that they should be protected has to be respected by the government parties and opposition parties by action.”