By TCN News,
Jaipur: As many as fifteen Dalit, Muslim and Adivasi organizations jointly celebrated Independence Day here and hold a program in favour of the Ahmedabad-Una Dalit march.
Several social activists and academicians gathered at the city’s Baba Ambedkar Circle on Monday to unfurl the national flag and raised slogans in solidarity with Una Dalit march.
The program was planned by fifteen Dalit, Muslim and Adivasi organizations including Ambedkarait Party of India and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. They assured police that the program was peaceful and in support of Ahmedabad-Una Dalit Yatra as well as against the atrocities by communal forces.
Following slogans were raised during the event:
दलित, मुस्लिम, आदिवासी, एकता मंच जिंदाबाद!
हम इस देश के वासी हैं! नहीं गुलामी के आदि हैं!
दलितों-आदिवासियों-मुस्लिमों पर स्तत अत्याचार के खिलाफ
अहमदाबाद-ऊना दलित यात्रा के समर्थन में प्रदर्शन!
गऊ-रक्षा के नाम पर अत्याचार बंद हो!
गऊ-रक्षा के नाम पर दलितों, मुस्लिमों आदिवासियों पर अत्याचार बंद हो
हमारे प्राकृतिक संसाधन वापिस दो!
अंबेडकर के नाम पर सस्ती राजनीति बंद करो!
दलित-मुस्लिम-आदिवासी जी.डी.पी. में बराबर हिस्सा अब लेके रहेंगे!
संविधान हमारा, भारत हमारा ज़ुल्म सितम बंद करो
रोहित बेमुला के अपराधियों को तुरंत सजा दो!
मुस्लिम संस्थाओं पर संप्रदायिक सरकारी हमला बंद करो!
The Jaipur police allegedly forced the group to wind up their program. However, the activists managed to hoist the national flag and sang National Anthem.
“We insisted to unfurl the flag. And we did and sang the national anthem to the chagrin of police,” said Er. Rashid Hussain, state president, Welfare Party of India, one of the organizers of the Jaipur event.
He alleged that the police officials were feeling uneasy with the placards depicting various demands for Dalits and Muslims and against cow vigilantism.
“The police was incensed by seeing placards by different organizations which spoke of their right for unity and communal peace, freedom from atrocities by communal forces and police,” he added.
In a press statement, the organizers of the event have unanimously condemned the act of police on the Independence Day restricting them from unfurling the Tricolor and demanded end to atrocities meted out against marginalized communities.
Signatories of the statement included :
Tek Chand Rahul, President, Ambedkarait Party of India, Rajasthan
Prof. M. Hasan, President IRADA Society, Rajasthan
Mohd Nazimudin, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Rajasthan
Dalit Muslim Ekta Manch
Abhijit Singh
Akhil Bhartiya Bairwa Mahasabha
Akhil Bhartiya Regar Mahasabha
Aadivasi Meena Sangharash Samiti
Ambekar Welfare Society
Rajasthan Muslim Forum
Engineer Rashid Hussain
Social Democratic Party of India