Chandrashekhar Aazad objects to UP CM using ‘Harijan’ for Dalits, deems it ‘insulting’ : Valley Vision

Azad Samaj Party (ASP)-Kanshi Ram leader and Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad MP on Friday objected strongly to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath using the word ‘harijan’ for Dalits.

Aazad claimed whereas in 1982, the Union government issued an advisory to all the State governments asking them not to use the word ‘Harijan’ for the Scheduled Caste (SC), how Adityanath, who holds such an important Constitutional post, not aware of these decisions and wondered is deliberately using the word “harijan” for insulting the community.

“Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who gave the slogan ‘If we divide, we will be divided’ in election rallies, is himself dividing the society into ‘harijans’ and ‘non-harijans’ on social, cultural and religious platforms. Doesn’t the use of this word ‘harijan’ put his so-called Hindus in danger? Whereas in 1982, the Union government had issued an advisory to all the State governments asking them not to use the word ‘harijan’ for the Scheduled Castes. In 2010, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment banned it by issuing new guidelines in this regard. Even the Hon’ble Court had banned it, calling it derogatory,” the Nagina MP wrote on X.

He also shared a video of the UP CM where he used the word ‘harijan’.