Congress: Congress will prepare 10 lakh ‘Dalit Commandos’, Preamble of Constitution will be read across the country

The election results have shown that the Dalit community across the country has joined it in the name of protecting the Constitution. For this, it has even left its traditional parties like Bahujan Samaj Party. What goes strongly in Congress’s favour is that it was not only the non-Jatav community that broke away from BSP, the Jatav community, which is considered a relatively strong vote bank, has also broken away in favour of Congress this time.

Amit Sharma

After getting a large number of votes from Dalit community voters in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress has started to connect them strongly with itself. For this, ‘Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyan’ has been started across the country at the party level. Under this, two active Dalits in every village of the country are being made ‘Samvidhan Rakshak’. By 26 November, ten lakh Constitution Rakshaks will be made across the country. Two Constitution Rakshak committees will be formed in every village by them. On 26 November, on the Constitution Day, the Preamble of the Constitution will be recited simultaneously at a fixed time across the country. Its purpose is to connect the Dalit-deprived community with the Congress.

In fact, it has been seen in the election results that the Dalit community across the country has joined the Congress in the name of protecting the Constitution. For this, it has even left its traditional parties like the Bahujan Samaj Party. What goes more strongly in Congress’s favour is that it was not only the non-Jatav community that broke away from the BSP, the Jatav community, which is considered to be a relatively strong vote bank, has also broken away in favour of the Congress this time.

The Congress believes that its traditional vote bank has come to it only after seeing the party’s commitment to major issues. This is the reason why the party has now started attracting attention to those issues and connecting Dalit voters across the country with it. The plan is to form two Constitution Protector Committees in every Dalit dominated area, which will work to develop political awareness among the common Dalit voters by holding small meetings on a monthly-fortnightly basis.

Special focus on electoral states

Keeping the assembly elections in mind, this scheme is being implemented especially in those states where assembly elections are to be held in the coming time. 14 thousand Dalit Constitution Protectors are being prepared in seven thousand Dalit dominated villages of Haryana. Similarly, the party is preparing in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir. At present, 12 assembly constituencies in Delhi come under the reserved category. The party is moving ahead with the goal of winning all these. The party won all the reserved seats in Delhi in 1998. The party is trying to repeat the same history.

Congress will take advantage of BJP’s mistake

Actually, on the advice of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), BJP has worked to promote Dalit and tribal leaders at every level of the organization. By placing leaders of Dalit-tribal community on big posts in the organization as well as in the government and cabinet, the party has worked to connect these communities strongly with itself. The result of this is that from 2014 to 2022, the party has done a miracle by winning many big elections.

But in the 2024 elections, the statements of some BJP leaders gave the message that it can make big changes in the Constitution after a big victory in the elections. Congress capitalized on this opportunity and propagated across the country that BJP can try to make changes in the Constitution. The way Rahul Gandhi raised these things strongly with a copy of the Constitution in his hand, Congress got the benefit of it and a section of Dalit-tribal voters broke away from parties like BJP-BSP and came to its account. Along with Muslim voters, these voters revived the Congress. The party is now trying to hold on to this support base.

Where is the challenge?

Congress’ plan to win the hearts of Dalits is very good, but it is not that easy to implement it. BJP has prepared an account of its defeat. The party has realized its mistake and is going to work on a strategy to work strongly on it again.

On the other hand, BSP, which is continuously losing its support base, is also restless to make a comeback. Mayawati has handed over the responsibility of reviving the party to her nephew Akash. Looking at the aggressive campaign launched by Akash, many political pundits are seeing a better future for BSP.

Our credibility is our strength: Rajesh Lilothia

In such a situation, with two big contenders for Dalit votes in the fray, the chances of Congress do not seem easy. But Congress leaders are very confident about it. Chairman of Dalit Congress Department Rajesh Lilothia told Amar Ujala that the history of 75 years since independence till date proves our credibility. He alleged that on one hand Congress has worked to strengthen constitutional institutions, while in just ten years the present government has crippled many constitutional institutions. The Dalit community is scared of the possibility of tampering with the Constitution. In such a situation, Congress will stand with them and work to strengthen the country and the Constitution. This plan of Congress can become its strength.

Courtesy: Hindi News