Tribals need to be protected: Jaipal Singh

• Jaipal Singh, a tribal representative, spoke on the need to protect tribes and ensure conditions to help them come up to the level of the general population

• Tribes were dispossessed of their land and turned away by society, spurned as primitive and backward

• Singh advocated for reservation of seats in the legislature for tribals to represent themselves and be heard by others

• Singh made a plea for breaking the emotional and physical distance between tribals and the rest of society by mixing with each other