International Session:
Topic :  “The building of international network of Phuley-Ambedkarite Movement : A Present day need”

 

“The problems of Indigenous Bahujan society is not going to be resolved unless and until the Phuley-Ambedkarite movement is internationalized.”-R.D. Kamble

        Mr.R.D.Kamble is working in one of the renowned petrochemical company in Abu Dhabi for the last 10 years. He is active social worker there. He said that, for the third time he is attending BAMCEF’s national convention. He attended BAMCEF’s first national convention in 1980 at Ramlila Ground, Delhi. Then in 1987 and now in 2001. He was really happy to see the vast growth and development of BAMCEF and its spread of network  in almost 300 districts of India. Though he left India in 1990, he is working for Phuley-Ambedkarite movement due to BAMCEF's "Pay Back to Society" program.
         He said that, along with a group of Ambedkarites he organized one international conference at Kaulalumpur, Malaysia in 1998. People across the world came to attend the conference. From India almost 160 delegates came. Wherever there is or was a British rule, Indians are there. We are working abroad to join these people from Malaysia, Fiji, South Africa, Mauritius and other states in the Ambedkarite movement.
         Speaking on Durban conference he said that, foreign press continuously reported that Christian missionaries alone spoke on caste discrimination, in the conference. But workers of Phuley-Ambedkarite movement had also contributed. In 1983, Adv. Bhagwan Das from India and Dr. L. N. Berwa from U.S.A.  put the case of untouchables in United Nations Forum. Social awakening on International forum has already been  started and the people who are outside India want to contribute for the society.
          Recently, BAMCEF's National President Mr. Waman Meshram visited U.K. as a part of International Networking and Mr. Maulkiat Singh Bahal is working, as an International co-coordinator. All these activities will make the organisation strong.
          He welcomed the step of BAMCEF taken for employees in the form of Mulnivasi Employee’s Welfare Federation and demanded reservation in private sector as is existing for U.S. Black people, who get the reservation in private firm too.