[WSMDiscuss] The Constitution Set in Stone

[Umakant]

Dear Friends 

Greetings! Please click on the linksgiven below to read about a movement started by Adivasi (Indigenous) people in Jharkhandand Chhattisgarh states of India wherein they are upholding the Constitution ofIndia.  They want to protect and alsopromote their rights as per the rights enshrined in the Constitution of India.They are demanding due diligence and accountability of the State.  

 

Do pass it on to others in yourcircle/network. 

 

Pathalgadiis Nothing But Constitutional Messianism So Why is the BJP Afraid Of It?

Nandini Sundar, The Wire, May 14, 2018 

https://thewire.in/rights/pathalgadi-is-nothing-but-constitutional-messianism-so-why-is-the-bjp-afraid-of-it

 

Across the country, the engagement of citizens with theConstitution appears to be in direct proportion to the administration’sabandonment of it. That is why the government is trying to criminalise thebelief that it will deliver anything more than it is doing already.

 

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The Constitution set in stone: Adivasis in Jharkhand are usingan old tradition as a novel protest

Priya Ranjan Sahu,Scroll.in, May 14, 2018 

https://scroll.in/article/878468/the-constitution-set-in-stone-adivasis-in-jharkhand-are-using-an-old-tradition-as-a-novel-protest

 

Several villages haveerected stone slabs inscribed with details of constitutional provisions, lawsthat safeguard tribal rights over land and natural resources 

 

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With Regards and InSolidarity 

Umakant, Ph. D 

New Delhi 
















 






My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. 
B.R.Ambedkar
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