PM Modi will meet Jogi family after the meeting in Amabal village of Bastar, know the reason

Chhattisgarh Lok Sabha Election 2024: : The hope of giving the Jogi family their real caste identity, one of the most important families of Bastar tribal region of Chhattisgarh, has once again been awakened. In the struggle that has been going on for almost 110 years, the Jogi family has gained hope because for the first time a person from this family will directly meet the Prime Minister. In fact, in the small Amabal village where PM Modi’s election rally is to be held on April 8, Damru Nag and Raghunath Nag of this family have been called to meet PM Narendra Modi after the meeting.

Information will be given to PM about the problem of caste identity
Damru Nag and Raghunath Nag told that during the meeting, PM Modi will be told about the problem of their caste identity, because they come from Halba caste but during the careless survey of the British officer during the British rule, they were included in Halba caste. Instead of doing so, the designation “Jogi” given by the royal family was declared a caste, after which the fight for their real caste identity continues.

Jogi is not a caste but a position given by the royal family.
Actually, Jogi family has a special status in Bastar. The historic world famous Bastar Dussehra festival cannot be completed without them, but this Jogi family is not a society. Rather, it was just a post given by the royal family at that time, but during the British rule, due to the negligence of the British officials, their caste identity changed and now the name found in the post, Jogi, remained their caste, this new identity gave them According to information received around 1913, there are around 800 people of this family in Bastar.

The installation of Kalash in the temple is called Jogi Bithai in Bastar Dussehra. According to tradition, a young man from the Jogi family, resident of Amabal village, sits on waterless fast for 9 days of Navratri in the posture of yoga every year at a certain place located in Sirhasar Bhawan of Jagdalpur city. The main objective of this penance is to make the Dussehra festival peaceful and uninterrupted. This tradition has been going on for hundreds of years and only the people of Jogi family have been following this tradition.

Jogi family does not get the benefit of reservation
Raghunath Nag, a member of the Jogi family, says that because of writing Jogi, he is not able to get the benefit of reservation in the tribal category, nor has he been included in the Scheduled Tribe. Because of this, despite being tribal, they are not able to avail the benefits of reservation, due to which they are facing many problems.

Both the youth will meet PM Modi
Prime Minister on Monday in Amabal village Narendra Modi There is a meeting of. After which he will meet two members of Jogi family, Damru Nag and Raghunath Nag. During this, both the youth will inform the Prime Minister about their caste problem. They hope that the country’s Prime Minister PM Modi will definitely solve their problem.

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