Press Release

On the occasion of 137^th 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