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Reiterating that the State authorities is successful favour of societal justice, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that the authorities volition impulse the Union authorities to summation the percent of preservation for Scheduled Castes and Tribes based connected their population.
He was addressing a ample gathering aft inaugurating the ‘Sri Maharshi Valmiki Jatre-2026’ astatine Sri Maharshi Valmiki Valmiki Guru Peetha successful Rajanahalli adjacent Harihar connected Monday.
The Chief Minister emphasised the request for the oppressed communities, including the Valmiki community, to retrieve their respective histories. “It is important to cognize history, arsenic without knowing history, gathering the aboriginal is not possible. Only done education, organisation, and agitation tin the oppressed support their rights. And lone done education, the communities tin enactment distant from superstitions and unsighted faith,” helium said.
Mr. Siddaramaiah said that it was acquisition that helped Maharshi Valmiki to writer Ramayana. “Vyasa Muni who wrote Mahabharata belonged to the sportfishing community. The strategy of 4 varnas deprived the oppressed of education. It was aft Constitution came into beingness that adjacent opportunities were provided. Education helps the oppressed to travel to the mainstream, truthful the authorities has fixed value to acquisition which volition empower the oppressed economically, socially and educationally,” helium said.
The Chief Minister said that the caste system, created by vested interests, had led to inequalities successful society. Only done economical and societal empowerment tin inequalities beryllium removed, helium said.
Basavanna had tried vehemently to alleviate the caste system. However, due to the fact that of vested interests, the caste strategy had continued and superstitions had spread.
Mr. Siddaramaiah said that the strategy of providing payment grants to SC/STs based connected their colonisation was archetypal introduced by the State authorities successful 2013 and nary of the BJP-ruled states had specified a law, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court.
The Chief Minister past listed retired the assorted payment schemes and measures taken by the State authorities for the payment of the oppressed communities. He besides promised to fulfilled the demands the communities successful a phased manner.
The lawsuit was attended by Prasannanand Puri Swami, Vachananand Swami, Ministers Satish Jarkiholi, H.C. Mahadevappa, legislators Yathindra Siddaramaiah, N.Y. Gopalkrishna, Raghu Murthy, and others.
