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"This doesn't mean we discriminate against other castes or clans," said Balwan Singh Nain, another member.
The chief minister's call was not well received by members of other castes, local observers said.
The BSP succeeded, through skilful negotiations, by recruiting leaders of other castes, including brahmins.
The Govi, or cultivators, made up the highest caste in Sri Lanka, but many other castes also engaged in farming.
As "lords of creation" by divine right they were divided into 10 tribes, above all other castes.
"If I marry people from other castes, my uncle and aunt won't have a good impression of my parents, so I won't do that," he said.
Over the past couple of decades, other castes — first a Naidu, then a Vaniyar, and now a washerman and maybe even a Dalit — have started moving in.
The distinctions, particularly between the Brahmans and the other castes, were in theory sharper, but in practice it now appears that social restrictions were not so rigid.
They also vote to empower their own castes and communities and to protect themselves from the political supremacy of other castes and communities.
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