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‘Dalits, tribals will become slaves again if PM Modi gets third term’: Kharge
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday continued his onslaught against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and claimed that Dalits, tribals and poor will be reduced to slaves like treatment if BJP comes to power for third term.Addressing a rally in Maharashtra’s Dhule constituency, Kharge said, “Before Independence, the poor, Dalits and tribals were treated like slaves. If you give a third term to Modi and Shah, the same situation will repeat. We will become slaves again.”
“You have to vote for your own sake and your own people. We need to save the Constitution. This election will shape the future of the country, thus it is an important election,” he added.
Appealing to the voters to save democracy and the Constitution, Kharge claimed that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat also supports that constitution should be changed.
“RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had said in 2015 that the Constitution should be changed. Later, many BJP MPs and saffron party leaders also made similar statements,” he said.
“If there is no Constitution, there will be no one to save you,” he added.
During his speech, Kharge also accused PM Modi of ‘spreading lies’ and accused him of not delivering his promise about bringing back black money from abroad.
Modi chest-thumped about bringing back black money from abroad but never delivered on that promise, said Kharge.
“He claimed to provide two crore jobs every year but never did. Instead of increasing farmers’ income, as per his claims, his wrong policies increased the production cost for growers. That is why Modi should be removed from power,” Kharge added.
Dhule in north Maharashtra will go to polls in the fifth phase of the general elections on May 20. Congress has fielded Shobha Bachhav from this while former Union minister Subhash Bhamre is in the fray from BJP
: TOI
Salon owner, son refuse haircut to dalit in Tamil Nadu, arrested
DHARMAPURI: Police in Dharmapuri district on Sunday arrested a salon owner and his son for refusing to give haircut to dalits. Keeraipatty residents Chinnaiyan, 56, and Yogeshwaran, 26, booked under the SC/ST (Prevention of the Atrocities) Act of 2015, were later sent to jail.
SI S Sakthivel said on May 9, a 17-year-old from the Kelapparai dalit colony visited the salon and sought a haircut. “Yogeshwaran, however, refused, citing the boy’s caste,” said the SI, adding that several other dalits faced the same refusal at the salon. The victim complained to the Harur police on Saturday evening, providing a video recording of his conversation with Chinnaiyan and Yogeshwaran. A case was registered under the SC/ST (POA) Act 2015 and the two were arrested the next morning.
: TOI
Litmus test of Dalit consolidation bid of parties
Over 2.46 crore voters will be eligible to exercise their voting rights in this phase. Thirteen seats going to the polls on Monday had seen almost 59% voting in 2019.
Akhilesh represented Kannauj from 2000 till 2012 when he vacated the seat to take over as the UP CM. Akhilesh’s wife Dimple won the seat in a bypoll and then retained it in 2014. The biggest upset came in 2019 when BJP’s Subrata Pathak wrested the seat from Dimple.
Pathak is back in fray, this time to challenge the SP chief himself who has been positioning himself as the most potent rival of the saffron brigade in UP. The BSP has fielded Imran Bin Jafar who could potentially eat into Muslim vote base which has traditionally been voting in favour of the SP.
The phase will also be unique since it comprises the maximum number of five reserved seats – something which would potentially test the Dalit consolidation bid of all the political parties. The reserved seats include Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Misrikh, Etawah and Bahraich. The BJP has retained all sitting MPs in the reserved seats, except Bahraich where the saffron outfit has replaced Akshaibar Lal Gond with his son Anand Gond. Anand will be challenged by Ramesh Gautam of SP and Brajesh Sonkar of BSP.
The other seat where the BJP has replaced its sitting MP is Kanpur. Here, the BJP has fielded Ramesh Awasthi in place of party veteran Satyadev Pachauri, a move that underscores BJP’s concerted bid to consolidate its traditional Brahmin vote bank which has been voting in favour of the saffron party since the peak of Ram Temple movement in early 1990s.
Awasthi, a former journalist and considered close to the saffron brass, is relatively new to electoral politics. He will be up against SP-backed Congress candidate Alok Mishra and BSP’s Kuldeep Bhadoria, a Thakur.
A keen contest is expected in Etawah, the home district of SP clan. The constituency, harboring the ambitious lion safari project of the previous SP govt, is also known for being the caste alliance lab of BSP founder Kanshiram who won the seat in 1991 with the support of the then Janta Party leader and SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Etawah, which was the political backyard of SP between 1999 and 2009, saw the electorate shifting loyalty to BJP in 2014 when the party stormed to power with an overwhelming majority under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. BJP’s Ashok Dohre won the seat in 2014. When he switched over to Congress, the BJP fielded former SC/ST commission chairperson Ram Shakar Katheria who won the seat in 2019. Katheria, a Dhanuk Dalit, is back in the fray and is up against SP’s Jitendra Dohre, a Jatav, the caste to which BSP chief Mayawati belongs.
An interesting contest is brewing in Unnao where BJP has repeated its sitting MP Sakshi Maharaj, a Lodh. A five term MP, he won from Mathura in 1991, from Farrukhabad in 1996 and 1998 and then eventually Unnao in 2014 and 2019. This time he faces SP’s Annu Tandon.
Courtesy : TOI
Dalit Girl Recovered Safely After Extended Absence
A 17-year-old Dalit girl was rescued by the police here after she was allegedly kidnapped over a month ago and her obscene videos surfaced online, police said on Saturday. Talking to the media, the victims family alleged that despite making efforts, the police lodged an FIR on May 9 after several obscene videos of the victim surfaced online.According to police, the girl went missing on March 22.
A17-year-old Dalit girl was rescued by the police here after she was allegedly kidnapped over a month ago and her obscene videos surfaced online, police said on Saturday. Talking to the media, the victim’s family alleged that despite making efforts, the police lodged an FIR on May 9 after several obscene videos of the victim surfaced online.
According to police, the girl went missing on March 22. ”The girl was recovered safely from a house on Saturday and was sent for a medical examination,” said the Station House Officer (SHO) Santosh Kumar Singh. The victim’s family filed a complaint against Ajit, a rickshaw driver. He is currently absconding, Singh said, A case was registered against Ajit under section 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code. Efforts are also being made to arrest those involved in circulating and posting the victim’s videos and pictures online, he said.
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31 Dalits embrace Buddhism in Banaskantha
This is the first such conversion event in the state after a recent circular from the Gujarat government clarified that Buddhism has to be considered a separate religion.
The event was held in Palanpur of Banaskantha district on Sunday. (Express photo)“All of them belonged to the Scheduled Castes. Bhante Pragna Ratna Thero from Porbandar gave Dhamma dixa to the 31 people,” said Ramesh Banker, secretary of Gujarat Buddhist Academy, which was organised the event in association with Budhha Dhamma Dixa Samiti Banaskantha.
This is the first such conversion event in the state after a recent circular from the Gujarat government clarified that Buddhism has to be considered a separate religion and any conversion from Hinduism to Buddhism requires prior approval of the district magistrate under the provisions of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act.
The circular, issued by the state Home department on April 8, had also clarified that similar prior approvals of the district magistrate are necessary for conversion from Hinduism to Jainism and Sikhism.
“Procedures according to the prevailing law for religious conversions were followed in toto,” Banker added, saying that they have been following the procedure even before the government circular of April 8.
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