Mumbai, Mar 19 (PTI) A convention was held on Thursday at Mahad in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on the occasion of the start of the centenary year of the historic ‘Chavdar Tale Satyagraha’ led by Dr B R Ambedkar, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said.
‘Human Rights Convention against Manuwad and Capitalism’ had been organised by the CPM and Jati Ant Sangharsh Samiti, Maharashtra State Committee, it said.
Dr Ambedkar and his supporters held a meeting at Mahad on March 20, 1927, and afterwards proceeded to Chavdar Tale or lake and drank water from it to assert the Dalit communities’ right to use public water bodies. The incident became famous as ‘Chavdar Tale Satyagraha’.
CPM general secretary M A Baby, politburo members Dr Ashok Dhawale and Mariam Dhawale, state secretary Ajit Nawale, and central committee member Vinod Nikole, among others, visited the site of the 1927 agitation, and took part in the convention.
Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, also attended the event.
In his speech at the convention, Baby called upon the participants to take Ambedkar’s legacy of social transformation to the masses throughout the year, and organise a larger gathering on December 25 to mark the centenary of Ambedkar’s public burning of the Manusmriti. PTI MR KRK
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