Mysore/Mysuru: Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale has said that if the Poona Agreement was not done, Dalits would have got separate voting rights and the community would have got more opportunities and representations.
The Minister was speaking after floral tributes to the portrait of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and inaugurating a seminar on ‘Nine Decades of Political Reservation: Issues, Effects and Changes’ organised on the eve of Poona Agreement Day, by University of Mysore’s Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Research and Extension Centre, at the Centre’s Vishwajnani Auditorium recently.
