Tirupati (AP): Devi Lal said the posts of Ambassadors, Governors and judges were being cornered mostly by the urban elite. It was the rural people, who had made supreme sacrifices for the country’s independence. He came down heavily on the “urban idiots” for exploiting their rural bretheren and traced this evil to the days of the Constituent Assembly which he said had only five people from the rural areas out of its total strength of S42 members. He blamed the members of the Constituent Assembly and the constitution makers as well for having “played a trick” on the rural people and denying them the fruits of independence. The children of the rural people hardly had’ the opportunity to step into the Doon school or Oxford school he said. He, however, expressed happiness at the fact the 319 MPs in the present Lok Sabha were from rural areas and saw a clear “shifting of power” from the urban to rural areas. (Hindu July 8)
Article extracted from this publication >> August 17, 1990
