Ravi S Singh
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, November 24
The Rashtriya Baudh Sangh (RBS), a national apex body of Buddhists, on Sunday urged the Union Government to take measures for development of newly created UT of Ladakh which is demographically preponderated by Buddhists.
A meeting of RBS’s national officer-bearers and state presidents adopted a resolution underlining the imperative of social harmony and to promote equality of all sects, castes and religion.
“The sangh hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the bold decision to give UT status to Ladakh,” said Bhante Sanghpriya Rahul while addressing the meeting. Residents of Ladakh and Buddhists elsewhere celebrated the decision.
A team of the RBS will visit the regions having good presence of Buddhists, including Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, to study their problems and subsequently taking them up with the authorities concerned at the Centre for redressal.
Sanghpriya Rahul praised Modi for helping intensifying solidarity between adherents of Buddhism in Buddhist-dominated 42 countries and India, which is origin of Buddhism.
He was critical of the then UPA government for not taking up effectively at international fora the desecration of Buddha’s statue at Bamyan in Afghanistan by terrorist outfit, Taliban, in 2001.
The meeting also prepared a roadmap of its activities, including unifying SCs, STs and OBCs and Most Backwards Castes (MBCs), besides adherents of Buddhist faith. Many SCs in the past have adopted Buddhism.
Sanghpriya Rahul paid tributes to Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar who later adopted Buddhism, but lamented that his social and political philosophy behind reservation policy for the SCs was being misused by and misapplied by vested interest by the empowered section within the SC spectrum which wanted to corner the benefit exclusively for itself.
“The empowered among SCs continue to corner the reservation benefits and developing discriminatory class and caste consciousness towards the more downtrodden sections,” Sanghpriya Rahul said.
The meeting decided to hold events in Delhi next year: A two-day “Conclave” of sangh’s national council, the highest policy-making body, starting January 18 and national assembly of women to underscore the need for their empowerment in February.
A national-level function will be organised here on December 24 to mark the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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