{"id":302299,"date":"2018-09-06T04:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302299"},"modified":"2018-09-06T04:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:51:50","slug":"union-minister-ramdas-athawale-to-move-supreme-court-against-directive-to-ban-dalit-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-minister-ramdas-athawale-to-move-supreme-court-against-directive-to-ban-dalit-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Ramdas Athawale to move Supreme Court against directive to ban &#8216;Dalit&#8217; word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302300 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ramdas-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ramdas-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ramdas-474x420.jpg 474w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ramdas.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Union minister of state for social justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Wednesday, said the Republican Party of India (RPI) will approach the Supreme Court against the Ministry of Information and Broadcast directive advising media to refrain from using the term \u2018Dalit\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bombay high court in June had asked the I&amp;B ministry to consider issuing a directive to the media to stop using the word \u2018Dalit\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">RPI chief said, \u201cWe would go to the Supreme Court and challenge the Bombay High Court\u2019s decision to ban the usage of the term \u2018Dalit\u2019 because it is not derogatory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Athawale\u2019s ministry in March had written to other central ministries and state governments, advising them to avoid using the term \u2018Dalit\u2019 and instead use \u2018person belonging to Scheduled Castes\u2019 in all official communications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Athawale further added, he respects the court decision to use the word \u201cScheduled Caste\u201d in place of \u201cDalit\u201d in official documents, but media should not be stopped from using the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Dalit\u00a0community had objections with the word\u00a0\u2018Harijan\u2019 but the word was not banned\u201d, said RPI chief.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister of state for social justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Wednesday, said the Republican Party of India (RPI) will approach the Supreme Court against the Ministry of Information and Broadcast directive advising media to refrain from using the term \u2018Dalit\u2019. The Bombay high court in June had asked the I&amp;B ministry to consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1462,4786,134,4564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302301,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302299\/revisions\/302301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}