Scavengers party issues manual#
The ten page manifesto of Safai Karamchari Andolan demands an unconditional national apology from the prime minister for the historical injustice meted out to people ‘with manual scavenging.’ Calling for declaring India as a country independent of manual scavenging, the manifesto demands liberation from manual scavenging, rehabilitation of manual scavengers with dignified with non-scavenging employment and livelihood options and insists on Safai Karamchari’s life to health, education and dignity.Īlso read: The BJP Manifesto Cannot Hide the Party’s Agenda of Intolerance and Bigotry Manual scavengers demand alternate employment Muslim women activists from across ten states have also released their own manifesto ahead of the polls. “It also informs us how people have been frustrated under the present dispensation”. “It is a vibrant aspect of democracy” opines D. From a creatively titled ‘womanifesto’ to a manifesto by manual scavengers, for the first time in electoral history, the poll scene in India today is also populated by voices that have hardly been heard otherwise.Įver since the elections were announced, several civil society groups including manual scavengers, farmers, women and even children – who technically cannot vote – have come up with their own manifestos, hoping they will finally be heard.Ĭuriously, several such manifestos insist that things have gone from bad to worse in the last five years and seek redress.
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