16/02/2026
“The Fifth Schedule Is Our Right, Not Anyone’s Charity!”
Here not merely for the question of one district, but for the question of our constitutional existence.
There is a demand to amend the Fifth Schedule status of Malkangiri.
I ask — with whose permission? For whose interest? Were the Adivasi people consulted?
The Fifth Schedule is not a gift from any government. It is the result of our struggle. It protects our land, our forests, our water, and the power of our Gram Sabha. To weaken it is to weaken the fundamental rights of Adivasis.
If any Adivasi MLA or MP remains silent or supports this conspiracy, they do not represent us — they represent power. The people elected them to safeguard our dignity, not to sell our rights.
We clearly warn —
Any decision taken by ignoring the Gram Sabha and the voice of Adivasis will not be accepted.
We will not tolerate the snatching away of our rights in the name of development.
An attack on the Fifth Schedule is an attack on the Constitution.
And an attack on the Constitution is an attack on democracy.
Today we declare —
Adivasi rights will not be reduced; they will be strengthened.
The Gram Sabha will not be weakened; it will be empowered.
No one can touch our constitutional protections.
Long live Adivasi unity!
Long live the Constitution!
The memorandum alleged that more than 5,000 attackers, including people from neighbouring Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, used dynamite, gelatine sticks, firebombs, axes, arrows and other weapons
