Patna, Jan 03 (UNI) Shoshit Samaj Dal (SSD) today supported ongoing farmers agitation

and demanded from the government for immediate withdrawal of Agricultural Reforms

Act, which was against the interest farmers.

President of SSD Raghuniram Shastri while addressing a function organised here to

mark 190th birth anniversary of Savitri Bai Phule, the great female dalit teacher, said

that SSD had extended its full support to ongoing farmers agitation for withdrawal of

Agriculture Reforms Act.

The Act enforced recently by the government was heavily against the interest of

farmers, he noted.

Mr Shastri said that architect of the constitution Baba Bhim Rao Ambedkar had made

provision in the constitution for compulsory education of children in the age group of 6

to 14 years. He had called for dismantling of the prevailing system of discrimination in

Hindu society and establishing a new system, having equal rights and respect for all.

Akhilesh Kumar, president of Patna unit of SSD, who also chaired the function, said

that it was time for the government to take effective and concrete steps for spreading

the light of education among downtrodden and deprived section of the society.

Without making empowered the downtrodden, no effort of development with social

Justice would succeed, he noted.

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