Mhow: Under the aegis of Babu Jagjivan Ram Chair, a
National Workshop on "Babu Jagjivan Ram: Messenger of Social
Equality" was organized at Dr BR Ambedkar University of Social Sciences,
Mhow on Wednesday afternoon.
Vice
Chancellor Dr DK Sharma presided over while chief guest and keynote speaker of
the workshop was Samajik Samrasta National Coordinator Shyam Prasad.
Dr Shailendra Mani Tripathi delivered introductory speech, in
which he highlighted the topic of the workshop and it's need for the society. After
that, Dharmendraji, RSS Pracharak and Samrasta convener said that Babu Jagjivan
Ram always worked for equality and uniformity in the society.
While delivering his speech, Shyam Prasad said, "Because of
Mhow being the birthplace of Dr Ambedkar, I dream of being born here again and
work for equality. 42 villages in Mhow tehsil, where people of all castes live
here are the places where students must start doing their research work for
bringing social harmony. Babuji's life can be divided into two phases- life before
independence and after that. Constitution is not a creation of any one person
but 42 persons sat for more than 2 years and discussed all aspects, which led
to the formation of the constitution”.
"Babuji saw discrimination and felt it himself when barber
refused to cut his hair and despite being a central minister, when he left the
venue after inaugurating Idol and temple of Sampoornanandji at Varanasi, the
priests washed the temple with Ganga water. He always gave credit to every
community and used to recount that Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, a Brahmin
invited him to BHU for studies and made him a scholar. He fought against
inequality and never used wrong words against other communities", said
Prasad.
"He was a man of self respect as when Indira Gandhi was the
PM, he brought no confidence motion in the Loksabha to protest against rape and
atrocities on SC women and his speech included appeal for safety of all women,
irrespective of their caste and religion. He was of SC but he maintained
harmony with leaders of all castes", he further said.
“When some elements tried to convert all backward classes, it
was Jagjiwan Ram who said that conversion is not the solution and foiled their
attempts. Respecting all, giving opportunities to all was the message of Swami
Vivekananda and Babuji said so. We must take the example of Dalit Chamber of Industries’
exhibition held in Mumbai and when Birla and other big industrialists went
there, they praised those industrialists who were not waiting for reservation
in jobs but had become job givers”, Prasad said.
“His way of politics was such that he was never defeated in his 50
year long career from a single seat. India was importing food grains to sustain
in 1960s and at that time Babuji was made agricultural minister. He gave
emphasis on landless farm labourers and within 10 years, India was self-reliant
in food. When he became railway minister, unemployed men and women of SC were
employed for water for rail passengers during summer season, by which on one
hand, people were relieved of their thirst while on the other hand, social
harmony was achieved. Finally, I am of the view that we must not argue on who
is bigger, Dr Ambedkar or Babuji as we must not compare anybody with any other
person”, concluded Shyam Prasad.
Vice Chancellor Dr DK Sharma said, “Despite seven decades of independence,
we must worry on why discrimination exists in the society. Our university will
work for the welfare, uplift of tribals and backward classes and we are working
for social harmony”.
Dr Ramshankar conducted the program while Dr Manoj Gupta
proposed the vote of thanks.
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