The Haryana State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has hailed the directions issued by the Supreme Court regarding caste menace and caste panchayats. In a statement issued in Rohtak on Wednesday, Haryana State CPI(M) secretary Inderjit Singh said: “The comments of the apex court are timely.”
“Under the shameless protection of ruling politics, the way in which vested interests have become active under the garb of caste gotra/panchayats holding the rule of law and democracy to ransom pose a serious challenge to society as a whole,” he said. He asserted that as per the directions of the Supreme Court, the Haryana Government should also give up its “opportunistic stance of giving patronage to caste panchayats and curb their activities effectively which are otherwise trampling upon the fundamental rights of the common citizens”. The progressive forces fighting against casteism would certainly get a boost.
