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Demand to introduce reservation for Dalits in private sector
To mark the 125th birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, a seminar was organised at Dasari Nagabhushan Rao Bhavan by the CPI State council here on Sunday. Professor KS Chalam delivered the keynote address. Speaking on the occasion, KS Chalam said that it was really a very significant and inspiring by the CPI leaders to organise a seminar to mark birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar.
Vijayawada: To mark the 125th birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, a seminar was organised at Dasari Nagabhushan Rao Bhavan by the CPI State council here on Sunday. Professor KS Chalam delivered the keynote address. Speaking on the occasion, KS Chalam said that it was really a very significant and inspiring by the CPI leaders to organise a seminar to mark birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar.
- CPI leaders emphasise the need to fight against capitalism and neo-liberal policies which are supporting the casteist forces in the country
He mentioned that today the teachings of Ambedkar are equally relevant as they were when he was alive. And in India, the capitalist force of development, big businesses and neo-liberal policies have not only co-opted casteism, but in many ways have strengthened casteist practices and untouchability.
He emphasised the need to fight against capitalism and neo-liberal policies which are supporting the casteist forces in the country. He recalled Dr Ambedkar’s saying that untouchability and casteist practises against Scheduled Castes are not mere division of labour, but it is the division of labourers.
“From the beginning, the Hindutva forces want to conceal the reality that India had existed on the exploitation of the labour of Dalits through the centuries by dividing the labourers,” he said. Social activist U Sambasiva Rao said that Ambedkar always believed in economic equality.
“But in the context of the present economic policies, the number of jobs available is shrinking in the government and public sector,” he added. These economic policies have spelt the virtual end of the reservation policies because there are fewer and fewer jobs to reserve for Dalits and adivasis.
He said when Dalits demanded reservation in private sector during the UPA government, they said there was no need for any law. He further said that the government said it would ask the private sector to voluntarily agree to a code in which they would give certain posts to SCs and STs. He wondered when the corporates and the private sector get so many concessions from the government, why should they be outside the framework of the Constitution of India.
