Bhim Sena or Bheem Sena or Akhil Bhartiya Bhim Sena, abbreviated as ABBS, lit."All India

Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly of India, Constit ...

Army", is an

Ambedkarite Ambedkarism is called as the teaching, ideology or philosophy of B.R. Ambedkar, an Indian econonist, polymath, barrister, social reformer, human-rights advocate, and the architect of Indian Constitution. Ambedkarism includes the principles of Nava ...

social organization working for rights of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes,

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es and religious minorities in India currently under national president, Nawab Satpal Tanwar. It works for protecting the

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and reservation. The organisation is named after

B. R. Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served a ...

. Seema Chauhan is PRO of Bhim Sena.

Historical background

On 1 October 2010, Village Khandsa,

Gurgaon, Haryana Gurgaon (pronunciation: �ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: �ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...

's Nawab Satpal Tanwar founded Bhim Sena as a volunteers corps, seeking self-defence and equality which asserted that

dalit Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the Caste system in India, castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold Varna (Hinduism), varna syste ...

s are ''mool bharatis'' (the original inhabitants of India). On 29 May 1972, on similar patterns

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was founded in

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. First ever

volunteer organization was

Samata Sainik Dal Samata Sainik Dal, (''Army of Soldiers for Equality'' or ''Party of the Fighters for Equality'') abbreviated as SSD, is a social organisation founded by B. R. Ambedkar on 24 September 1924 with the objective of safeguarding the rights of all oppre ...

formed in 1927 by

. In 1907, ''Ayyankali Pada'' was created by dalit reformer

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. As of 2018, Seema Chauhan is PRO of ''Akhil Bhartiya Bheem Sena''.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhim Sena Dalit politics 2010 establishments in Haryana Organizations established in 1968 Volunteer organisations in India Ambedkarite organisations