Please show your solidarity for Sanvidhan Shakti, a new initiative by Martin Macwan of Navsarjan Trust, India and HfHR Advisory Board Member, by sending an email to info@hindusforhumanrights.org with “In Solidarity” in the subject line.
Dear friends,
You had offered your support a year ago to a petition calling for the removal of the statue of Manu from the premises of the Rajasthan High Court. The campaign was spear-headed by Martin Macwan of Navsarjan Trust, Gujarat, India and was supported by Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR) and Ambedkar King Study Circle (AKSC) in the U.S.
In India, the campaign garnered over 100,000 ‘missed calls.’ In the U.S., our joint change.org, signed by you, gathered close to 5,000 supporters.
Unfortunately, COVID surges and other hurdles in India curtailed the planned conclusion of the campaign by Navsarjan Trust on August 15, 2021.
In the meantime, so much has happened in India to further envelop its secular constitution in darkness, as almost every pillar of democracy has been weakened or even removed altogether.
It is in this new and urgent circumstance that Martin Macwan of Navsarjan Trust has issued a fresh call to protect and honor India’s secular constitution on November 26, 2021, Constitution Day, the day that Dr. Ambedkar presented the draft constitution to the people of India.
Here’s a note from Martin Macwan on the planned campaign:
There are a series of programs as follows.
1. 26th November 2021: People across India will light a lamp/candle in their homes/community to celebrate Constitution Day as the day of Sanvidhan Shakti. More than 11,000 villages have already joined the program preparation and more are joining. The programs will be organized in towns as well. The poster in English is attached.
2. 6th December 2021: Will be the day of Rakt Bandhuta (Blood Fraternity). 500 young women and men will donate blood at Dalit Shakti Kendra, Gujarat. Another 500 youth are expected to donate blood in other states (UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Telangana and Maharashtra, and more preparing to join). The blood donation program shall thereafter continue until 12th March 2022.
3. A Rakt Yatra is planned from Gujarat to Delhi, carrying the blood donation certificates. The message of the march: “Dr. Ambedkar had said that without fraternity, both equality and liberty have little meaning. The greatest relationship or expression of fraternity is through donating blood to save lives. Hence, let us share blood and end untouchability. Can India announce the end of untouchability on 15th August 2022, on the occasion of its 75th independence anniversary from all places of worship?”
4. 15th August 2022: As India celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of independence, we shall launch Bhim Rudan, in recognition of the fact that Dr. Ambedkar’s dream of annihilation of caste is unfinished: A large brass coin shall be minted with the message: “On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of India on 15th August 2047, will India be FREE OF UNTOUCHABILITY?”
People across the country have donated 2,700 KG of brass utensils for the coin. The coin will be presented to the Parliament to lay the same in the foundation of the new upcoming Parliament House. This is to remind us that India cannot become a true nation as long as untouchability persists.
People across the country are also donating one Rupee as their contribution to the new Parliament House to convey the message that in a true democracy the Parliament belongs to all the people. Already, over 1,50,000 One Rupee coins have been donated.
Please show your solidarity for Sanvidhan Shakti, a new initiative by Martin Macwan of Navsarjan Trust, India and HfHR Advisory Board Member, by sending an email to info@hindusforhumanrights.org with “In Solidarity” in the subject line.