508 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
and towns throughout the length and breadth of India for no other reason except that they fought the elections against the Congress, and which has caused many deaths and injuries ;
(2) the shameful part which the Hindu police have been playing in siding with the Caste Hindus in belabouring and arresting innocent men and women from among the Scheduled Castes ;
(3) the unlawful part which the rationing officers are playing as partisans of the Congress in refusing to the Scheduled Castes supply of rations;
(4) the conspiracy of silence observed by the newspapers who have never cared to condemn these outrages on innocent men and women;
(5) the utter indifference shown by the Provincial Government in protecting the lives and properties of the Scheduled Castes.
The Working Committee cannot help feeling that this conduct of the majority community proves beyond the shadow of a doubt how unworthy the Hindu community is to be entrusted with power and that if the majority community does not improve its morality, the Scheduled Castes would be forced to protect themselves by every means open to them.
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