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Monday, May 7, 2018, 12:00 PM   |   e-paper HOME PUNE MAHARASHTRA ART AND CULTURE SPORTS BUSINESS WORLD OPINION Home   Opinion   Dalits’ plight: No improvement since 1935 conversion pledge Dalits’ plight: No improvement since  Dr Ambedkar's 1935 conversion pledge Camil Parkhe Saturday, 5 May 2018     goo.gl/8Fsp3B    Dr Ambedkar’s pledge to give up Hinduism, therefore, sent tremors in the  Indian social and religious circles with various Hindu leaders trying to persuade him to reconsider his decision while leaders of other religions tried to woo him into their religions. Frustrated over the discrimination and injustice meted out to his untouchables community, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar vowed in Yeola in Nashik district in 1935 that: “I may have born a...

Monday, April 30, 2018, 4:47 PM   |   e-paper HOME PUNE MAHARASHTRA ART AND CULTURE SPORTS BUSINESS WORLD OPINION Home   Opinion   Facts & myths of Lingayat label and SC/ST benefits Facts & myths of Lingayat label and SC/ST benefits Camil Parkhe Saturday, 21 April 2018     goo.gl/eKp5u3   By recommending minority status to the Lingayat community, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has indeed opened a Pandora’s box. With the move made prior to the declaration of the State assembly elections, he has scored a political point over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Meanwhile, the issue of recognising Lingayat sect as an independent religion has been kept at an abeyance.   By recommending minority status to the Lingayat community, Karnataka Chief Minist...

New political persona of prominent Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar Camil Parkhe  goo.gl/zkm2qt    Saturday, 3 February 2018 With the recent incidents at Koregaon-Bhima, Dalits and others are perceiving some signs of consolidation of the Dalit force and emergence of a Dalit leadership in the persona of Prakash Ambedkar. The Dalits in Maharashtra are decisive in tilting the political fortunes in the State. The 1998 Lok Sabha polls had proved this when various fractions of the Ambedkarite Republican Party had unified for the first time and won as many as four Lok Sabha seats in the State. At that time, RS Gavai (Amravati), Prakash Ambedkar (Akola), Ramdas Athavale (Pandharpur) and Jogendra Kawade (Chimur) were elected to the Lok Sabha. This was possible as the Congress with Sharad Pawar as the Chief Minister in Maharashtra was instrumental in forging the RPI factions unit...