Constitution is the foundation of hopes of the deprived: Digvijaya

Bhopal: The state Congress' Scheduled Castes Department on Thursday held its state executive committee meeting here. The members discussed social justice, protection of the Indian Constitution, safeguarding the rights of the Scheduled Castes, strengthening the organisation at the booth, division, block, district and state levels.The party's national president of the Scheduled Castes Department, Rajendra Pal Gautam, was present at the meeting along with former chief minister Digvijaya Singh, department in-charge Bhagwati Prasad Ahirwar, state Congress president Jitu Patwari, former ministers Sajjan Singh Verma and Surendra Chaudhary, CWC member Kamleshwar Patel and former minister Surendra Chaudhary. The meeting was presided over by state Congress SC Department president Pradeep Ahirwar.Addressing the meeting, Rajendra Pal Gautam said that protecting the rights granted to Scheduled Castes by the Constitution is our collective responsibility. The organisation will only become stronger when we reach out to the last person in society, understand their problems and fight for their rights. The fight for social justice needs to be intensified.Former chief minister Digvijaya Singh said that the Constitution is not just a document but the foundation of the hopes of millions of deprived, Dalit and backward sections of society. The Congress will continue to fight tirelessly to protect it and establish social equality, Digvijaya Singh said.Jitu Patwari said that the Congress Party stands firmly with Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's Constitution and ideology of social justice. "The Scheduled Castes Department is an important pillar of the Congress organisation, which must be strengthened down to the booth level to lay a strong foundation for the 2028 Assembly elections," Patwari said.It was decided at the meeting that the Scheduled Castes Department will further intensify public relations campaigns, social justice dialogues, save the Constitution programmes and the struggle for pressing social issues across the state in the coming days.State executive members, district presidents and senior department workers were present in large numbers at the meeting.