BAMCEF

BAMCEF is an acronym for "The all India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation". The term got its significance from the Constitution of India, which divides the oppressed and exploited Indians into categories on the basis of their namely: Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward class (OBC) and Minority Communities.

BAMCEF
The All India Backward And Minority Communities Employees Federation
Formation6 December 1978 (1978-12-06)
FounderKanshi Ram
Founded atBAMCEF Convention at New Delhi
TypeSocial organization of educated employees[1]

The origins of BAMCEF lie in an organisation for employees of oppressed communities that was established in 1971 by Kanshi Ram,D.K.Khaparde, Dinabhana. This became BAMCEF at a convention held in Delhi in 1978, with an official launch on 6 December 1978, the anniversary of the death of B. R. Ambedkar.[2] The ideology of BAMCEF is to fight the entrenched system of inequality that divides Indian society, and to abolish the caste system.

History

As an employee of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory in Pune, Kanshi Ram realized that the formation of a Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes bureaucracy was important to serve depressed class's interests. He set about forming a federation, through which he worked his way up the bureaucratic hierarchy. By identifying a few zealous officers, he was able to influence lower-ranked staff.[3]

The motto of this organisation is to 'Change the System', to inspire the Sc/St/OBC and Minority bureaucrats to do their bit for the moolnivasi (Sc/St/OBC and Minority) masses. In this way, a continuous supply of intellectual property, money and talent was ensured. Ram did not want to make BAMCEF an employees' union. He wanted it to become an organisation of educated Bahujan employees: "the think tank, talent bank, and financial bank of the Bahujan samaj".[4]

BAMCEF raised funds to promote their agenda and for training. Kanshi Ram appointed state-level conveners as well as mandal conveners to act as links between state and district levels.[5] Suryakant Waghmore says it appealed to "the class among the indigenous moolnivasi bahujans that was comparatively well-off, mostly based in urban areas and small towns working as government servants and partially alienated from their untouchable identities".[6]

Others established the Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti (DS4) in 1981. This organization made an impact on people in North and South India. Later, this group was led by Ishaan Singh Tomar. Before the formation of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), DS4 entered local elections in Delhi and Haryana in the name of "Limited Political Action". Later on, Ram dissolved DS4 and formed BSP as a completely political wing.[7] This caused strain within BAMCEF ranks.[8]

In early 1986, BAMCEF split. Kanshi Ram announced that he was no longer willing to work for any organisation other than BSP. One element of BAMCEF, which was associated with Kanshi Ram, became a shadow organisation to help BSP in electoral mobilisation. Those remaining in BAMCEF after Ram's departure registered BAMCEF as an independent non-political organisation in 1987.[9]

Current National President of BAMCEF is Waman Meshram[10]

References

Notes
  1. Reporter, Staff (7 December 2011). "Pay back to the society after self-introspection". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  2. Jaffrelot 2010, p. 535.
  3. "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow". The Indian Express. 24 May 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  4. Jaffrelot 2003, p. 392.
  5. Franco, Macwan & Ramanathan 2004, p. 52.
  6. Waghmore 2013, p. 40.
  7. "BSP finally arrives as Mayawati stuns political observers with her election performance". India Today. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  8. Teltumbde, Anand (19 August 2016). Dalits: Past, present and future. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781315526447.
  9. Waghmore, Suryakant (30 September 2013). Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India. SAGE Publications India. ISBN 9788132118862.
  10. "National President of BAMCEF", MediaReport, 10 May 2018, retrieved 14 April 2020

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