Dalith face of BJP : Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan speaks about the future of Jignesh Mewani and Hardik Patel

Dalith face of BJP : Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan speaks about the future of Jignesh Mewani and Hardik Patel

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan in a conversation with medias , talks about Dalit upsiring in the country.

Dalit uprising:

“The biggest issue is the historical problem of social disparity. As long as casteism remains such incidents will keep happening. There are issues. Those in earlier generations (of dalits) used to adjust. The new generation is not ready to compromise and read to fight for honour. You must have seen whenever any religion came to India, people converted in block and most of those, who converted to either Islam or Christianity were from OBC and Dalit communities. Baba Saheb Ambedkar chose to embrace Buddhism after great deliberations, saying that while it was not in his hands to decide in which religion he will be born, he can very choose as which religion’s follower he will die. You may also have seen the entire dalit struggle is seek out a life of dignity and that is why they perhaps went with ruling side. During Muslim rulers, they adopted Islam, when British influence came, many converted to Christianity. “ ,he said.

Three years of BJP led NDA govt:

“The work that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done in last three years for dalits in general and to honour to the legacy of Baba Saheb Ambedkar, is a record of sorts in itself–be it the issue of asking banks to prepare dallit entrepreneur, giving women subsidised schemes under Ujjawala Yojana and getting them bank accounts. Besides memorial for Ambedkar, a Chair in his name in educational institutions and many more such steps. “ he said.

Jignesh Mewani and Hardik Patel:

“The incident of Una was highly condemnable, very unfortunate. But what Mevani is doing. He is now an MLA. He should raise dalit issues in Assembly there instead of hopping from Maharashtra to Delhi. New faces come from time to time. I do not take him very seriously. I heard there was not much crowd in Mevani’s rally in Delhi. The dalits are more concerned with their day to day issues and we are trying to address them. Those who try to reap political benefits by provoking dalits will ultimately fail. These people have shot into limelight in a short span of time and should not forget they were leaders, who spent a life time raising their issues. In six months leaders like Mevani, Hardik Patel and others will be forgotten by people.”,he added.

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“We need to reach the message more loudly. UPA government used to highlight even if any small step was taken for dalits, Here while more work is being done, it is not being highlighted as much. It is dalits, who are mainly the beneficiaries of schemes like Jan Dhan Yojna and Ujjawala. Since SC or Dalit name is not attached with the scheme, the message somehow is not going about the work being done by Modi government for them.”,he said.