Banswara : Bhil Pradesh Mukti Morcha’s cultural mega rally was held on Thursday at Mangarh Dham. It was claimed that about one lakh tribal people participated in it. 40 speakers raised the demand for the creation of Bhil Pradesh in one voice in the rally. Banswara-Dungarpur MP Rajkumar Roat said that till now we have been taught wrongly. Our 1500 ancestors who were martyred at Mangarh Dham had come here to prepare the outline of Bhil Pradesh. The religious gathering was an excuse, otherwise what did the British have to do with our religion. The demand for Bhil Pradesh has been going on since then.
The speakers said that Mocho has 4 MLAs and one MP. However, only one MP and one MLA attended the rally. This time an attempt was made to make the rally completely hi-tech. Security guards equipped with walkie-talkies in tribal attire were deployed at all the places where police was present. They were looking after crowd control as well as parking and other arrangements.
Union Territories also included
The community demanded to form Bhil Pradesh by combining 49 districts of Rajasthan, MP, Maharashtra and Gujarat. There is a demand to include 12 districts including Udaipur from the old 33 districts of Rajasthan. The speakers said, we want such a state in which every employee from Collector, SP, SDM will be tribal. There is a demand to include Union Territories in this. It was also claimed that people of the community will also come from Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Dadra Nagar Haveli.
There is a demand in these districts to separate them from their respective states
Rajasthan: Banswara, Dungarpur, Barmer, Jalore, Sirohi, Udaipur, Jhalawar, Rajsamand, Chittorgarh, Kota, Baran, Pali.
Gujarat: Aravalli, Mahisagar, Dahod, Panchmahal, Surat, Vadodara, Tapi, Navsari, Chhota Udaipur, Narmada, Sabarkantha, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Valsad.
Madhya Pradesh: Indore, Guna, Shivpuri, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Ratlam, Dhar, Dewas, Khandwa, Khargone, Burhanpur, Barwani, Alirajpur.
Maharashtra: Nashik, Thane, Jalgaon, Dhule, Palghar, Nandurbar.
only the decisions of ‘Bhanjgada’ will have to be accepted
Meanwhile, Bagidora MLA Jai Krishna Patel said that now the administration and the government should be careful that gunmanji will not work. You cannot arrest the children of Jab Thaho tribal family. Whatever decision we take in ‘Manjgada’ (tribal tradition of settling disputes) in the Gram Panchayat, you will have to accept it. Otherwise you will see later.
