Therefore, my humble submission is when we agree to deprive ourselves of the exercise of full electoral rights, it is just to placate our friends and at the same time to do them the justice which they fully deserve. We ourselves are guilty of having brought them to this level. It is up to us to see that they are not left in the lurch and they advance with the other communities. While this period of ten years is a challenge to the depressed classes to come up to the level of the other people, it casts an obligation upon the whole country and upon all the communities living in India, because now not only Hindus, but the Muslims and the Sikhs and all other communities are on the general list. Now it becomes our solemn duty that we should see that within these ten years, we behave in such a manner that these people of the Scheduled Castes and the scheduled Tribes come up to our standard. What is the use of articles 301, 296, 299 and 10 if the community does not rise to the height to which it is expected to rise? It will be our duty in future to see that our Central Government and the governments of the provinces do their duty by our brethren-the Members of the Scheduled Castes and the scheduled tribes.
