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Resolution No. 3
Next Session :
The President moved the following resolution from the Chair.
- That it is resolved that the venue of the Second AllIndia Samata Sainik Dal Conference be in the Punjab when the All-India Depressed Classes Conference is convened there.
There is no opposition. I declare the resolution carried unanimously.
I now request the Hon’ble Dr. B. R. Ambedkar to address the Conference.
The Hon’ble Dr. Ambedkar was given rousing ovation when he rose to speak.
Address by Dr. Ambedkar
The following is the substance of Dr. Ambedkar’s speech to the Samata Sainik Dal :
I am very glad to see this vast body of Volunteer Corps raised in the Province of C.P. This Volunteer Corps was first started in Bombay about the year 1926. The Samata Sainik Dal is an integral part of our general movement. Indeed it is its powerful instrument. The aims and objects of our movement have undergone a complete and a radical change. There was a time when our object was to obtain for our people a place of equality within the Hindu Society as a part and parcel of it. Today we stand for equality with the Hindus as a distinct and separate element in the National life of India. The aims and objects of the Samata Sainik Dal have also changed alongwith this change in the aims and objects of our movement. What led to formation of this Volunteer organization was the original object of our movement namely to foster the demand among the Depressed Classes for social equality with the Hindus. As its name implies, the organization was built up to bring about a reorganization of the Hindu society with a view to find for the Depressed Classes in the Hindu society a place of equality. Today its object is to obtain Social Equality with the Hindus by bringing about a complete separation