Talk:Justice Party (India)

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About Kula Kalvi Thittam - please give references from Governemnt decisions and Government orders as to what this 'policy' is? and how is this connected with Justice Party? This section is a pot of mess.

[edit] Anti-hindi

reverted unwanted comments had nothing to do with Anti-hindi Kandyboy 18:12, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

The POV stuff here has been highlighted in bold:

"Around 1937, Rajaji and the Congress Party defeated the Justice Party and took power in Madras. As part of a national policy, Hindi was introduced as a compulsory subject in schools. Non-Hindi speakers in southern India rebelled. Periyar, and the Self-Respect Movement wanted to put a stop to this turmoil. When the Justice Party was defeated in the 1937 general elections after being in power for a very long spell from 1921, most of its leaders were disheartened and became inactive. It was at this moment of crisis, Periyar accepted the leadership of the party because he always felt the need for the existence of a vigorous political party essentially oriented to work for the upliftment of the socially deprived sections of the people. At this critical movement, two of the old guards staunchly stood by him. They were Sir R.K.Shanmugam and Sir A.T. Panneerselvam. At the time, the former was the Dewan of the Princely State of Kochi (now a part of Kerala) and then became Independent India’s first finance minister in 1947. The latter was a member of the Governor’s council and then a minister in Madras province in 1930s. On 1st March 1940, Sir A.T.Panneerselvam lost his life in a plane crash while flying over Oman Sea on his way to London where he was to assume office as the first ever Indian adviser to the Secretary of State for India in the British Government. Periyar lamented that the sudden and tragic demise of Sir A.T. Panneerselvam was an irreparable loss to the people of Tamil Nadu."

"Periyar felt that it is a step backward into the Middle Ages and saw this as clever ploy against the Dalits,Scheduled Castes and Tribes and Backward Classes as there first generation was getting educated only then"

This appears like pro-Periyar POV:

" Periyar's struggles were well rewarded when Rajaji quit in 1954 and Kamaraj withdraw the Kula Kalvi Thittam after becoming Chief Minister."

These statements too comprise POV (though not controversial) and do not contain citations:

"In fact there was no word such as Dravida in Tamil. Tamils nor Telugus nor Kannadas ever had used a word called Dravida. It is mostly used by northern scholars who has not much knowledge about southern culture and its heritage. It was another much abused word like Aryan. There is no proper scientific background to both these words."

"Thus the Justice Party changed its name and became Dravidar Kazhagam. Its objectives were changed to social reform. It left the parliamentary democratic politics forever. In addition to the name change, the tactics and the rhetoric became more violent. The Justice Party was more like a debating club, whereas the Dravidar Kazhagam took the message to the streets in a very explosive manner."-Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 01:52, 19 May 2008 (UTC)