BAMCEF Workshop: Pune

Mr. Kanshiram and I were totally involved in BAMCEF activities. Meetings of activists, common employees" gatherings and workshops were being arranged regularly. In fact BAMCEF had made rapid progress in many cities of Maharashtra in general but in Pune and Nagpur in particular. One such workshop was arranged at Shivajinagar Zopadpatti – slum – near Shivajinagar railway station on Pune-Mumbai highway. It was a large gathering. Mr. Khaparde, another hardworking BAMCEF activist, was the in charge of workshop. Mr. Kanshiram and I were present. While addressing to the BAMCEF activists gathered there for workshop I, in brief, said as follows –

“You are the brain of the communities you belong to. There are intelligent persons from Scheduled castes, Scheduled Tribes. There are learned participants from backward community and minorities here. You being employees you can play a decisive role in making our history. I have no doubt we are going to make it. Please note it, individually you are intelligent but you have to prove it collectively. Also you are poor individually but you are very rich collectively which you have to prove it.

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar has given us Representative type of Democracy. In other words, you can elect your representatives for Assemblies and Parliament. The elected representatives are the Law Makers and nobody can make laws for your socio-economic – political and every aspect of your life and for your all-round progress except your representatives elected by you. Our BAMCEF community is having large ocean of votes. It is just and simply possible to achieve it”. (In fact these strategic points we both had discussed in detail several times at my Pune residence and above mentioned message cum slogan became a part of our public functions.Kanshiram added one more inovative symbolic slogan,He said thus-'for centuries we been only begging by keeping our palm upside. now onward we should keep our palm down side to give,' This saying became extremely popular and  our speakers started  using  it in public gatherings,