Anti-caste rally reaches Shillong
SHILLONG: Noted social activist KK Sarachandra Bose, who has undertaken a pioneering all-India expedition to spread his message against casteism and root out the deep, old malady from the country, has said that the reservation system in India should be based on economic condition of people and not on caste and colour.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Bose said that the caste-based reservation system in India was introduced by Congress and this system would lose its relevance in India in the next five years. Dubai-based Bose, who has served a mandatory notice on the Government of India to eradicate the caste system by this calendar year, is on a 40-day-long Bharat Yatra along with a team of 34 volunteers, which started June 9 from Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of his native Kerala. The team reached Shillong on Monday.
He said that the caste system was introduced in the country by the British rulers in line with its ‘divide and rule’ policy and even the history indicates that the casteism did not exist in India 5000 years ago.
Terming the India constitution as fraud, Bose, a lawyer by profession, said that caste system must be changed in the country and he would not hold discussions with any one to reach any compromise.
Bose’s Bharat Yatra will culminate in New Delhi later this month.
All along the way, Bose is also distributing a book ” Caste Away! India, Hinduism and untouchability” which has been authored by him and so far he has distributed around 10000 copies of the book.
According to Bose, his book is itself a 13-month mandatory notice to the Central Government to bring a constitutional reform to eradicate the caste system from the country.
The deadline ends on December 31 this year.