GOLI SODA Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Close to 300 Dalits, including families of the Una flogging victims will convert to Buddhism at a ceremony to be held at Mota Samdhiya village in Una taluka of Gujarat on Sunday. The conversion ceremony coincides with Budh Purnima. 25 families from Mota Samdhiya village will be among those embracing Buddhism The Una incident refers to the flogging of eight Dalits by cow vigilantes. Four of them were later paraded half naked in the village. The incident lead to widespread outrage in the state and the country. Ramesh Sarvaiya, one of the victims said the conversion was needed because it was obvious that no one considered them a Hindu. "Even after over 70 years of independence, Dalits are not free. The rest of Hindus don't consider us as one of them or else they wouldn't treat us so badly," said Sarvaiya. He said after the incident a lot of promises were made but none of them were kept. "Hence we decided to embrace Buddhism the way Babasaheb did," said Sarvaiya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uravis Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Why don’t they just fight to abolish caste system in india ? Oh ya because they won’t get support from same caste who benifit from caste by grabbing opportunity from deserved on the bane of reservation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surendra.g Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 40 minutes ago, uravis said: Why don’t they just fight to abolish caste system in india ? Oh ya because they won’t get support from same caste who benifit from caste by grabbing opportunity from deserved on the bane of reservation Why cann't other caste who does not get benefited from caste system (in terms of reservations) stand by them and fight to abolish caste system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uravis Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 5 minutes ago, surendra.g said: Why cann't other caste who does not get benefited from caste system (in terms of reservations) stand by them and fight to abolish caste system? If they start I am sure they will stand by . But instead they opted to change religion which doesn’t make any sense to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandasasanudu Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 ee mathalu marithey emi vasthadi...kanna amma babu ni vadilesi inkokari panchana chesinattu untadi...hmm unless some financial benifits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOLI SODA Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 They are just following Ambedkar Because he did the same thing Shifting religion Kanna being free of religion is better option at least you have some freedom Or create your own religion like Lingayats did with some new rules Religion should be personal affair... following one religion should not threaten other... It is just search for truth anthe Rest all part of politics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uravis Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 8 minutes ago, GOLI SODA said: They are just following Ambedkar Because he did the same thing Shifting religion Kanna being free of religion is better option at least you have some freedom Or create your own religion like Lingayats did with some new rules Religion should be personal affair... following one religion should not threaten other... It is just search for truth anthe Rest all part of politics... Being free of religion doesn’t do any good being free of caste will do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nfdbno1 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 2 hours ago, uravis said: Being free of religion doesn’t do any good being free of caste will do right... but, the so called those who suffered from caste based discrimination are yet not trying to distance themselves from caste (because they need reservations). Instead they are distancing from religions thinking that would somehow threaten the other group and make them heroes. ambedkar set chesina bad example ide anukovali! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSDTarak Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 5 hours ago, uravis said: Why don’t they just fight to abolish caste system in india ? Oh ya because they won’t get support from same caste who benifit from caste by grabbing opportunity from deserved on the bane of reservation Actually to those who covert to buddhism, their caste status remains same if they come under SC and ST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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