Mangalore: Human Rights are lost when injustice prevails in society said Salil Shetty, secretary-general, Amnesty International, London, who was on visit to his home town on Jan.7, 2014 and gave a talk on Human Rights Movement at Bertrand Russell High School, Baikampady on Tuesday.

Speaking to the school students as a keynote speaker, Salil Shetty said that India had an unequal society within its boundaries, in spite of several religions and saints taking birth here and caring on movements for social justice, Human equality rights of woman, education and food for the poor and religious celebrations of all kinds every now and then. He added that whereas the rich sections of the society are provided with all the needs in private due to the wealth in their hands and police force at their heels, it is the poor people who are made to run from pillar to post to get justice, police help in times of need, education for their children and food for the family who live in miner cottages and not in mansions like the rich people.

This social imbalance in spite of a constitution written more than 6 decades ago providing human rights, justice and equality to all citizens in this country which had a dozen 5 year plans in its free history so far. The distinction between the rich and poor is so vast  all over India, in spite of production of wealth food industries services and a multiplicity of crops grown on Indians soil, everybody does not get food every day, but has a right to vote in every election.

Such economic in equality as seen in India has no equal in any part of the world even though day in and day out speeches are made on human rights and abolition of poverty among over 60% of Indian population, he rued.

T S N Murthy, IRS, deputy chairman, NMPT, addressing the gathering, told his listeners that he was a teacher once upon a time before he joined NMPT, and new the sorrows of economically down trodden and socially neglected people of India. In resent Delhi election Aam Admi Party secured 28 seats out of 70 and BJP 32, trouncing the ruling congress which had miss ruled for 15 years an area close to the National Capital City. It showed that the poor people were stronger than rulers and rich people when they fight for Human rights, which are suppressed and they feel oppressed.

When Salil Shetty visited the school, Mahesh Shetty Timarody, president of Praja Prabhutva Vedike along with Sowjanya’s parents Chandrappa Gowda and Kusumavathi submitted a memorandum to him and pleaded with him to help them get justice.
 
Amritha Shetty, social activist, V T Rajshekar, founder and editor of ‘Dalit Voice’, AICC member P V Mohan and others were present during the talk on Human rights.