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Open Session
Second Day
July 19, 1942
The Third Session of the All-India Depressed Classes Conference re-assembled at 10 a.m. with Rao Bhadur N. Shivraj in the Chair.
The proceedings commenced with the singing of songs specially composed and sung by several members of the Conference.
Rao Bahadur N. Shivraj said,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I want to announce that the Subjects Committee has agreed to place in this Conference five resolutions. Resolutions I to IV will be moved first as one proposition and Resolution V will be moved next. I now call upon Mr. B. K. Gaikwad, M.L.A. Nasik ( Bombay ) to move the first four resolutions.
While moving Resolutions Mr. B. K. Gaikwad said, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, the resoultions I am asked to move which read as follows :
Resolution No I : Cripps Proposals Unacceptable
This Conference declares that the proposals of His Majesty’s Government relating to constitutional changes sent out with Sir Strafford Cripps are utterly unacceptable to the Scheduled Castes. In the opinion of this Conference these proposals were nothing but a betrayal of the interests of the Scheduled Castes and a breach of the assurance given by His Excellency the Viceroy in his declaration of 8th August 1940 on behalf of His Majesty’s Government that a constitution which had not the consent of the Scheduled Castes would not be imposed upon them.
Protest Against Cripps Proposals
This Conference places on record its most emphatic protest against His Majesty’s Government agreeing to the demand made by the Congress that the new Constitution be framed by a Constituent Assembly and also against the proposal of safeguarding the interests of the Scheduled Castes by a