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benefit of landless labourers and will also introduce for them the principle of minimum wages.
II. New Problems
- So far the manifesto has dealt with the way the Scheduled Castes Federation proposes to deal with the old problems which the British left as a legacy to India. Since Independence, new problems have come up. They fall into two divisions–
(A) Problems of Internal Administration, and
(B) Problems of Foreign Relations
A-Problems of Internal Administration
- Among the problems of Internal Administration the glaring ones are :–
(i) The Problem of Linguistic Provinces;
(ii) The Problem of restoring purity of Administration ;
(iii) The Problem of Control and Black-marketeers;
(iv) The Problem of Inflation and the distress due to rising cost of living.
The Problem of Linguistic Provinces is most urgent. The quarrels within linguistic units in the States of Madras, Madhya Pradesh and Bombay have made it impossible for democracy to work. There must be social peace among various linguistic units if our constitution is to work on purely political considerations. For that purpose Linguistic States is the only remedy. The Federation will press for the creation of Linguistic States.
. The Scheduled Castes Federation believes that corruption in administration is wholly the creation of the Congress. The Congress imply does not believe in punishing the corrupt. Charges have been made by members of the Congress itself against congress ministers of corruption and graft not in one State but in many states. The Congress High Command did not even think it necessary to make inquiries. Instead of making inquiries into these charges