Due to marrying a Dalit woman, the family members did not reach for the last rites, social workers did the last rites
Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 18:11 [IST]
Raisen, 12 April. Casteism is not a new story in India. Every day there are reports of discrimination and inequality in the name of caste in India. Similarly, due to marrying a Dalit woman in Begumganj, Raisen, the family members of a young man did not attend the funeral. In such a situation, the social workers of the city got the young man cremated. He also administered the oath of humanity to the villagers.
People of different religions live in India like Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain etc. Every religion is divided into many castes. Casteism is such a theory, in which people of every religion consider their religion and caste as the best. This is where the problem of casteism arises. In the pursuit of considering their caste as the best among other castes, individuals start considering other castes as inferior or inferior to their caste. This is where the feeling of hatred arises within the person.
One such news has come out from Begumganj in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh, where not only the family members of the youth, but also the people of the village did not reach for the last rites of the young man due to his marriage to a Dalit woman 10 years ago. In such a situation, some social workers of Begumganj, considering humanity as a religion, got the youth cremated. In fact, in Hinotia Pachori village of Raisen district, a young man named Ganesh Kushwaha had settled his new household by marrying a Dalit woman 10 years ago, due to which the angry family and villagers had distanced themselves from Ganesh Kushwaha, but in the past, Ganesh When Kushwaha died, neither the family nor the villagers came to perform his last rites. In such a situation, Panchayat Secretary Sukhdev Sharma informed social worker Basant Sharma, after which Basant Sharma, his friend Devendra Kushwaha, Nafees Gaurayan and other companions reached the village. During this, his wife was crying alone in the house of the deceased Ganesh and there was no one else.
Seeing social worker Basant Sharma and his companions making preparations for the last rites, the hearts of some villagers swelled and they came forward and started supporting them. The villagers thanked the social workers. After this, everyone performed the last rites with respect by shouldering the dead body of the said person. After the last rites, the Panchayat Secretary provided funeral assistance of ₹ 5000 to the family members of the youth. On the other hand, social worker Basant Sharma said that there is no religion bigger than human religion.
