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Emphasising the request to recognise India’s continuing world of caste discrimination, Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) founder-president Manda Krishna Madiga criticised the caller Supreme Court ruling that Dalits who person to religions different than Hinduism, Sikhism oregon Buddhism suffer their Scheduled Caste (SC) status.
He called for SC presumption to beryllium extended to Dalit Christians connected par with the designation granted to Sikh and Buddhist Dalits, and expressed MRPS’ enactment for Dalit Christians if they take to combat for their rights.
Addressing a property league astatine the Press Club successful Somajiguda present connected Monday, helium said the authorities and the judiciary indispensable see the information that the preaching classes of some Christianity and Islam successful India mostly travel from precocious castes.
He alleged that precocious castes specified arsenic Brahmins, Vaishyas, Kammas and Reddys who converted to different religions carried guardant discriminatory caste practices adjacent wrong religions that preach equality. “The Supreme Court judgement is wholly against Articles 14, 15 and 25 of the Constitution. Because of assorted conspiracies, Dalits mislaid the benefits of the Communal Award and their rights to spiritual freedom. During the framing of the Constitution, precocious castes represented Christians, which is wherefore they did not talk for Dalit Christians’ rights,” helium alleged.
When upper-caste Christians are eligible for EWS reservations, wherefore should Dalit Christians not beryllium eligible for SC reservations, helium asked, claiming that B.R. Ambedkar had clarified that conversion to Christianity does not change the societal conditions of Dalits.
