English translation:
"I have said earlier that we have never been desperate to hold the rail roko andolan.
We don't like to protest and demonstrate but the way in which even dialogue on our justified demands were being refused by the government, we had to resort to rail roko.
Yesterday, we went and told the government that the way the situation had developed, the way police would be forced to behave and seeing how there would be thousands of protestors, it would be better if the government held a dialogue with us regarding our demands.
I repeat that our demands are justified.
We just want that those Dalit families who don't have BPL cards, who don't have a house, who don't have land, they get a plot of land.
Since the state home minister Pradeepsinh Jadeja showed interest in holding a dialogue, I called off the rail roko.
However, our protest will continue and I hope that our issues are resolved peacefully and at the earliest.
Today, I have come here bearing a message of peace and am speaking here before our friends who have come to take part in the rail roko to tell them why we called off the protest and assure them that come what may, the protest will continue."
Read the full story here: http://thewire.in/70453/dalit-activists-call-off-rail-roko-after-government-promises-to-hold-talks/
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