Press Release
On the occasion of 137th
birth anniversary of the great tribal freedom fighter Birsa Munda ‘Bhartiya
Adivasi Janmanch’ and ‘Adivasi Mahasabha’ organized a protest sit-in at Jantar Mantar Road in New Delhi. Thousands of adivasies
participated with traditional song and dance and put their demands before the
government for their rights.
Addressing this huge
gathering the president of Bandhua Mukti Morcha, Swami Agnivesh, drew the
attention of the government towards the oppression of tribal people. On one
hand the government is forcibly acquiring land, water and forests to benefit
the corporate sector, on the other, it is sending the innocent and helpless
protestors of this systematic loot to jails and killing them to teach a lesson.
He also demanded a judicial
enquiry into the killing of unarmed tribals and their children in Police firing
in Bijapur in the month of June.
He gave a clarion call to
the tribal people that they should not let the martyrdom of Birsa Munda, Sidhu
Kanu and Tilka Maujhi etc. to go in vain
and unite to save their existence.
Mukti Prakash Tirkey
Secretary -
Adivasi Mahasabha
