Honouring and Recognition of Babu Mangoo Ram Mugowalia

 Honouring and Recognition of Babu Mangoo Ram Mugowalia

With regard to the forthcoming anniversary of the founding of Ad-Dharam Mandal on June 11-12, I wrote an Open Letter to the CM of Punjab on June 8, 2022 and requested him to kindly consider and take decision to honour and recognise Gadari Baba Babu Mangoo Ram Mugowalia by naming roads, schools, colleges after the name

of Babu Mangoo Ram Mugowalia, a son of the soil of Punjab. I also suggested that the building in Kishanpura Jalandhar, which hosted the first office of Ad-Dharam Mandal and where Babuji started living too, may be declared a historical and heritage site. The building is now used as a school in the name of great Guru Ravidass ji. It may continue as its present character as far as the school is concerned. 

I would be happy if the concerned and interested individuals and organisations take due note of my submissions to the Hon'ble CM of Punjab and support my suggestions by writing to the CM and passing resolutions and forwarding it to the Government and Hon'ble  Governor of Punjab.

Babu Mangoo Ram ji along with his associates launched Ad-Dharam Mandal on June 11-12, 1926 at his village Mugowal in Garhshankar Rehsil of Hoshiarpur district of Punjab.

Text of my letter to CM of Punjab:-

June 8, 2022      

                               

An Open Letter to Chief Minister of Punjab

(Honouring Babu Mangoo Ram, Founder of Ad-dharam Movement)

 

Respected CM Bhagwant Mann Sahib,      

It is a matter of gratification to say that after a long time Punjab has a Government which claims, and rightly so, that it belongs to the people (Aam Aadmi) standing at the grass roots of the society. That is what, I think, our founding fathers visualized at the dawn of independence in 1947.

I take the liberty of writing this on an obscure subject of public important, particularly to the weaker sections of the society. You may not know, Sir, Ad-dharam Mandal, an outfit of dalits of the society, was founded on June 11-12, 1926 by Gadri Baba Babu Mangoo Ram Mugowalia (January, 1886 – April, 1980) and his associates at a congregation held

at village Mugowal in the district of Hoshiarpur of our beautiful Punjab. Babu Mangoo Ram was a great social reformer and became a voice of the under-privileged sections of the society in his life time. With his efforts, dalit masses of Punjab, the land of great Sikh Gurus who visualized establishing an egalitarian and casteless society, got political consciousness and learnt to stand and demand their due share and space in the society at large. Later as an associate of Babasaheb Ambedkar and other like minded leaders, Babu Mangoo Ram played a sterling role in the freedom movement while struggling to find a rightful space and say for the underdog both in the polity and the society.

All India Ad-dharam Mandal under the stewardship of Sant Satwinder Hira of Khuralgarh Sahib in Gargshankar in District Hoshiarpur, known as Charan Cho Ganga,  is the flag bearer of Babu Mangoo Ram’s mission and legacy is fully engaged in the empowerment and upliftment of the weaker sections of the society. The purpose of this letter, CM Sahib, is to propose and request you to kindly consider and name a Road, School, and College in Garhshankar (Hoshiarpur) or in Jalandhar after the great leader, Babu Mangoo Ram. It may be added that the first Headquarter of Ad-dharm Mandal was located in Mohalla Kishanpura (near Railway Station) and Babu ji started residing there which is school now named after the great Guru Ravidass. The School Building may be declared a historical and heritage monument in recognition of Babu Mangoo Ram and his contribution in the much needed social and political awakening among the poor masses. This gesture on the part of the Government of Punjab under your leadership will go a long way in strengthening our resolve to do our every best for the recognition of our icons and will to bring about empowerment as an affirmative agenda of the government and the people.

It may not be out of place to mention here that the Province of British Columbia of Canada has declared the month of April as the “Dalit Month of History’ in honour of Babasaheb Ambedkar, Jyotirao Phule, Babu Mangoo Ram Mugowalia and Sant Ram Udasi. Punjab should not lag behind in honouring and recognizing our heroes. You have already started on a right note by picking up the threads by recognising Shahed Bhagat Singh and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

I am confident, Sir, that my submissions will find a fair consideration and a favorable decision as a befitting tribute to Babu Mangoo Ram, a son of the soil of Punjab.

With the assurances of my highest consideration,

 

Yours truly,

                        (Ramesh Chander)      

Sardar Bhagwant Mann,

Hon’ble CM of Punjab,

Chandigarh