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Congress committed to social and economic justice, says Kharge

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N. Manjunath takes over as president of the KPCC's Scheduled Caste cell

TAKING CHARGE: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president M. Mallikarjun Kharge (left) handing over the party flag to N. Manjunath, who took over as president of the KPCC's Scheduled Caste cell in Bangalore on Saturday in the presence of party le ader N. Dharam Singh. — Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash

BANGALORE: Congress leaders on Saturday appealed to the poor and Dalits to foil the designs of the upper castes, who had kept them away from the mainstream of society and denied them social justice and the benefits provided by the Government.

Addressing party workers and members of the Scheduled Caste cell of the party, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president M. Mallikarjun Kharge said the Congress was committed to providing social and economic justice to the downtrodden. Social discrimination existed because of unequal sharing of economic resources. It was only the Congress that had enabled leaders from different castes to become chief ministers.

Earlier, N. Manjunath, MLC, took over as president of the Scheduled Caste cell of the KPCC. He is the son of the late T.N. Narasimha Murthy, former Minister. Mr. Kharge criticised the Government's decision to invite the former Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee for a programme on August 21 to dedicate the Alamatti dam to the nation. Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy should have invited Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , he said. The party was not against the invitation extended to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to inaugurate the dam, he added.

The former Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who joined the Congress recently, said the BJP was against an egalitarian society and social change. He called for a united struggle by farmers and the poor against social and economic discrimination. The former Ministers D.K. Shivakumar and V. Somanna, both MLAs, and Tejaswini Sriramesh, MP, spoke.

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