‘Centre trying to deny SC status to Dalit Christians’
The Hindu
‘Centre trying to deny SC status to Dalit Christians’
Speakers at a meeting to protest the Supreme Court verdict cancelling Scheduled Caste status and reservations for Dalit Christians charged that Union Government was trying to deny the SC status.
Addressing a round table meeting on Thursday by the Christian Seva Samithi at YMCA Secunderabad, to protest the Supreme Court verdict cancelling Scheduled Caste status and reservations for Dalit Christians, MLC Prof Kodandaram stated that discrimination exists across religions and alleged that the Central Government is deliberately conspiring to deny SC status to Dalit Christians, thereby continuing oppression against those who converted.
Former AP Minister Ravella Kishore Babu expressed concern that despite constitutional guarantees, the Central Government is attempting to suppress the Dalit Christian community and deprive them of rights granted by Ambedkar. Prof Gali Vinod Kumar of Republican Party of India (RPI) added that Dalit Christians continue to face untouchability and oppression, with many unable to openly identify themselves as Dalit Christians, and urged immediate resistance to such practices.
The meeting was attended by senior High Court advocate Kadir Krishna, and former chairman of Telangana Foods Mede Rajeev Sagar, former Vice Chairman of Telangana Minorities Commission, Shanker Luke, and others.
Christian leaders, intellectuals, and activists at a meeting in Secunderabad on Thursday. | Photo Credit: G RAMAKRISHNA
At another meeting organised by the Telangana United Churches and Pastors Association at YMCA Narayanguda, church leaders representing major Christian denominations — including Baptist, CSI Wesley, Methodist, Mennonite, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Orthodox, and Syrian churches, alongside the Telangana Bishops Council and numerous independent ministries passed a unanimous resolution to launch a movement for Dalit Christian Scheduled Caste (SC) status.
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