INDIA: FORMER PRIME MINISTER ADDRESSES RALLY OF UNTOUCHABLES AND LOW CASTES.

Record ID: 214920

  • Title: INDIA: FORMER PRIME MINISTER ADDRESSES RALLY OF UNTOUCHABLES AND LOW CASTES.
  • Date: 8th March 1982
  • Summary: 1. LV/CU Demonstrators carrying placards and chanting slogans (2 shots) 0.18 2. CU/LV Demonstrators in procession (2 shots) 0.28 3. GV Demonstrators singing at huge rally 0.35 4. CU Jagjivan Ram speaking 0.51 5. CU/SV People listening to Ram's speech (3 shots) 1.06 6. LV PAN/CU Crowd applauds Ram on rostrum (2 shots) 1.21 InitialsBB Script is copyright Reuters Li
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 1982 12:00
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  • Location: NEW DELHI, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVACSZ1AIJLTXV2R8CQ655MEM0Q4
  • Story Text: NEW DELHI, INDIA

    In New Delhi on Saturday, (6 March) India's former Prime Minister, Mr. Jagjivan Ram, addressed a rally of several thousand untouchables and other low castes who are demanding equal rights. More than three thousand people carrying banners and posters joined in the peaceful rally. Mr. Jagjivan Ram claimed that atrocities against the poor low castes and Harijans untouchables, had increased. The Indian constitution outlaws discrimination against the low castes and the tradition of untouchables is officially banned. But in practice these people suffer daily humiliation and discrimination persists, particularly at village level. As a result many of the poor lower castes are converting to Islam and Buddhism from the traditional Indian religion of Hindu. Mr. Jagjivan Ram called for countryside agitation.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - PREM PRAKASH</strong>
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