Rameshchandra Paramar, president of the Gujarat Dalit Panthers, and four other Panther leaders are now in Bangalore at the invitation of the Karnataka Dalit Action Committee.
Their visit, which we consider as a big event, was earlier scheduled to coincide with the unveiling of the Ambedkar statue before the Vidhana Soudha, Bangalore, on May 17.
Dalits of Karnataka gave a public reception to these heroes who won the Gujarat caste on May 27. The Panthers visit has evinced so much of enthusiasm that the DAC office is flooded with inquiries.
The Panthers will be taken to Madras where two separate receptions are arranged; one by the Madras Dalits and another by the Dravida Kazhagam at the Periyar Thidal.
Rameshchandra Paramar, who was arrested under the NSO during the caste war, is a double M.A., a poet and writer He was a lecturer in an Ahmedabad college until the Hindus made his life miserable and forced him out.
He is also the editor of two journals, Panther”, a monthly and ‘Akrosh”, a literary journal, copies of which were seized by the Ahmedabad police, a fortnight back. Paramar, and Neerav Patel, & young Dalit poet, were arrested in this connection.
We call upon Dalits all over India to send telegrams to the Ahmedabad Police Commissioner protesting against this brutal action of the police.
