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Dalit leaders to gherao parliament over Ambedkar memorial
PTI
Friday, January 15, 2010 18:51 IST
New Delhi: Dalit leaders from various parties have threatened to
gherao parliament and hold protest march on April 30 if their demand
for a Rajghat-like status of honour to BR Ambedkar's memorial here is
not met.
"We have been seeking the same status for Baba Saheb Ambedkar's house
in Alipur Road, where he breathed his last, as has been given to
Rajghat, the cremation place of Mahatma Gandhi.
"We had submitted a five point memorandum in this regard to President
Pratibha Patil on December 6 and to Union Minister for Social Justice
Mukul Wasnik on November 24 last year. But, we have not received any
assurance from the Centre on our demands," former union minister Ram
Vilas Paswan told reporters, after chairing a meeting of an umbrella
Dalit organisation Ambedkar Parinirvan Bhumi Samman Karyakram Samiti
here today.
Apart from Paswan, Udit Raj (Indian Justice Party), Indresh Gajbhiye
(BJP), Charanjit Atwal (Akali Dal), Ramdas Athwale (Republican Party),
and JD Seelam and H Hanumanthappa (Congress) are patrons of the
Samiti.
Most of these members were present in the meeting today. The Committee
members will seek an appointment from the prime minister during the
upcoming budget session of parliament next month over the same issue,
Paswan said, adding the protest march could turn into a thanksgiving
march if the demand is conceded by then.
The Samiti had on December 6 last year held a massive public meeting
on Alipur Road over the same demand.
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