RSS plans massive stir against SC status to Dalit Christains

Bhubaneswar: (visakeo) RSS backed All India SC and ST Reservation
Protection cell national president and former Chairman of the National
Commission for SC and ST Bizay Sonkar Shastri said that the recent
move of the UPA Government for setting up Justice Ranganath Misra
commission was purely unconstitutional and amendment in the Article
15(Clause-iv) was defamatory in nature. The National Commission for
Religious and Linguistic Minorities (NCRLM) chaired by Justice
Ranganath Mishra, the former Chief Justice of India, recommended the
Centre to grant equal rights as Scheduled Castes to the Christians of
Scheduled Caste Origin. "We have decided to educate Schedule Caste
people to struggle for their rights and massive rally will be held
here in the State Capital on Wednesday," Shastri said. Cell believes
the Government is planning to implement the Ranganath Mishra
Commission's recommendation that SC status be completely delinked from
religion, he argued. The move has infuriated the Hindutva
organisations and it is all set to take up the battle both on the
ground in the hinterland, where it is pitted head to head against the
Church, and also at political level, he warned. He further cautioned
the Government that any effort to implement the recommendations of the
commission, which are against the Constitution, is fraught with
serious consequences. "We call upon the Government not to succumb to
the pressure tactics of the Church lobby in politics and outside and
to stand steadfast on the path carved out by the leaders in the last
several decades by rejecting the demand for inclusion of such converts
into the Scheduled Castes category," he said. Let the Pope first
declare that there was a caste system in his religion, he said. He was
critical of the "brazenness of the petitioners", who have gone to the
Supreme Court with the demand of inclusion of the Christian converts
in the SC category, with the contention that Dalits remain Dalits even
after converting to Christianity.