An independent organisation named All India Banjara Sangh has been formed to take up long pending issues of the ‘Banjara’ (nomadic people) community. At a meeting of the Banjara community leaders from all over the country, a unanimous decision was taken to form an independent organisation to take up the long pending issues of the community.
Haribhau Rathod has been elected as the first national president of the AIBS. He said the organisation will have representations from all states of the country. A mega rally would be organised at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on February 28, 2016.
Rathod demanded that denotified tribes be removed from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) list and a separate category be created for them with a grant of seven per cent reservation.
Banjara
- The Banjara (also called Lambani and Gormati) are a community usually described as nomadic people from the Indian state of Rajasthan, now spread out all over Indian subcontinent.
- Banjaras were traditionally suppliers of bullock and salt merchants.
- Banjara art is rich and includes performance arts such as dance and music to folk and plastic arts such as rangoli, textile embroidery, tattooing and painting.
- Banjara people celebrate the festival of Teej during Shravana (the month of August). In this festival young unmarried Banjara girls pray for a good groom.
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