Chandigarh: People from Muslim and Sikh communities, and members of local groups, came together for a meeting at Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha complex here on Monday to float a platform for implementation of constitutional rights of minorities and dalits.
The participants postponed the finalisation of the charter and name of the platform to the next meeting. The participants were unanimous on the point that majoritarianism in the country’s governance had come to stay, leaving a narrowed space for minorities and lower strata of society. A statement issued by Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha mentioned that nearly 50 Muslim activists from Bhopal, Jammu, Maharashtra, Patna, Saharanpur, Pune, Hyderabad, Manipur, Haryana and Delhi joined the meeting with Sikh thinkers from Punjab and Chandigarh. The speakers claimed that the present situation had come to such a pass that fundamental rights guaranteed to minorities and dalits were being nonchalantly denied. TNN
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