25.06.24.UT NEWS.(Untouchables News)India.HQ.Chennai.26.by Dalit Team Sivaji.Vellore(Dr Ambedkar Dt)
How was the Dalit’s land registered, investigate again: Court
Unchahar (Raebareli). Another case of usurping a Dalit’s land through fraud has come to light. In this case, the Civil Court has ordered the police to investigate again in the case of registration of Dalit’s land on the basis of a fake permission letter. Warning of action against the investigator has been given. After receiving the order, the police has started investigation.
In the year 2008, Dalit Maharajdin, a resident of Pure Gulab Majra Kandrawan village of the area, had registered his share of land in the name of Shabnam Begum, a resident of ward number eight of the Nagar Panchayat and Alamdar Hussain, a resident of ward number six. Since the owner of the land belonged to the Scheduled Caste, the permission letter of the ADM administration was attached. After Misam Haider, a resident of Phad Mohalla of the city, sought information, the arbitrariness was exposed.
When the victim approached the civil court, the court took cognizance of the matter. The court admitted that despite sufficient evidence, the investigator has submitted the report without investigation. The court has ordered Unchahar police to re-investigate the case. The investigation of the case has been handed over to SSI Lokendra Singh. Kotwal Anil Kumar Singh said that the investigation of the case was started on the orders of the court. Soon after the investigation, the report will be sent to the court.
Uttar Pradesh: Gangrape after kidnapping of Dalit minor, SHO and Inspector suspended for negligence in action
The victim’s family had complained on the CM Jansunwai portal in the incident that took place in Ghaziabad’s Kavinagar police station area. In the case, ADG Zone Meerut has ordered SP Hapur to investigate. When the negligence was exposed, the SHO and Inspector were suspended.
Satya Prakash Bharti
Uttar Pradesh. A case of negligence of the policemen of Kavinagar police station of Ghaziabad district is in the news. In a case, when the SP of another district was ordered to investigate, the whole matter came to light. The SHO who did injustice to the victims has been suspended on the basis of the investigation handed over by ADG Meerut.
Know what is the whole matter?
According to the father of the Dalit victim from Ghaziabad’s Kavinagar police station area, “On May 19, the 13-year-old minor had gone to pick up her younger sister from school. During this time, three youths from the same village, Mukul Yadav, Sumit Yadav and Tassi Yadav, dragged her into the car. The three took her to a deserted area behind a petrol pump on NH24 and allegedly raped her and also made a video of the incident.” The three youths left the victim near the village’s Chaupal and fled and threatened to kill her. In the incident that took place on May 19, when the younger girl returned from school, the family called the elder daughter but she did not pick up the phone. The family began searching for her. The victim returned home in the evening and her clothes were torn. Due to fear, the victim did not inform her parents about the incident. The matter came to light when she fell ill. The minor girl’s father said, after five days, the daughter’s health kept deteriorating. She had stopped eating. We took her to the doctor because she was having pain in her stomach. The doctor told us the whole story. “When I asked my daughter, she started crying and said that she had gone to pick up her younger sister from school when Mukul Yadav, Sumit Yadav and Tassi Yadav from the village did dirty things to her and also made a video.”
The father was afraid of being defamed in the society and something bad happening.
Social worker Naveen Gautam helped the victim’s family in this entire matter. Naveen Gautam said, “I came to know about this from the family members. I explained to the family and assured them of all possible help. After which the father went with me and complained about the matter to Senior Superintendent of Police Ghaziabad Muniraj.”
The Muknayak asked Naveen Gautam that why did you not take the victim’s family to the regional police station. To this he said, “This is the attitude of the entire police station and the SHO. There is no hearing there. That is why I went to the Senior Superintendent of Police.” FIR registered on the orders of Senior Superintendent of Police
On the orders of Senior Superintendent of Police, a case was registered against Mukul, Sumit and Tassi in Kavinagar police station on 28 May under sections like kidnapping, rape of a minor, SC-ST Act and others.
No arrest even after FIR, medical and 164 statement
Social worker Naveen Gautam says, “FIR was registered in this case on 28 May. Police also got the girl’s medical done on 29 May but did not arrest the accused.”
Complaint made on CM Jansunwai portal
Regarding the entire incident, Naveen Gautam says, “The victim’s family is financially weak. They are not well-read. When no arrest was made even after FIR, a complaint was made on CM Jansunwai portal on 30 May.”
The matter reached ADG Zone Meerut
After complaining on CM Jansunwai portal, the entire matter reached ADG Zone Meerut. ADG Zone Meerut ordered the Superintendent of Police, Hapur, to investigate the matter. On investigating the case, the negligence of SHO Anand Mishra and investigator Ichharam Yadav came to light.
When the investigation was known, the SHO made the arrest
When SHO Anand Mishra came to know that a complaint has been made against him and the investigation of the case has been given to SP Hapur, the SHO immediately arrested the accused Mukul Yadav and sent him to jail.
The girl is in shock, has stopped eating and drinking
The father says that for justice one has to go to the police station every day. The police have been able to arrest only one accused Mukul in all these days. The victim remains in a room and does not even come out to eat.
It is alleged that the inspector has been negligent in many cases earlier and he had removed the rape section registered in the case, which is now under investigation.” In another earlier case, a woman living in Wave City, Ghaziabad, in March 2022, accused a man of raping her on the pretext of marriage at Kavinagar police station, alleging that the investigating officer Gudveer had removed the sections of rape and molestation. Rape incidents have happened earlier too. On March 31, a 22-year-old girl was subjected to horrifying brutality in Kavinagar police station area. Three youths kidnapped the girl and gang-raped her after keeping her hostage for two days. Along with this, the girl’s body was bitten in several places with teeth and her body was also burnt in several places with a burning cigarette. The condition of the victim had become so bad that the doctors had to clear the way for her excreta through surgery. The victim is still struggling between life and death.
UP: SHO suspended for making obscene gestures towards Dalit woman inspector, ACP investigating
A female trainee inspector posted in Agra made serious allegations against the inspector, said- “The inspector calls her to his room at night and harasses her.”
Satya Prakash Bharti
Agra. A Dalit trainee female inspector posted in Etmaduddaula in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh has made serious allegations against the inspector. The female inspector alleges that the inspector makes obscene gestures. He calls her to his room at night. The woman has written a letter to the Police Commissioner demanding action. The SSI along with the station in-charge have been suspended. The investigation of the entire case has been handed over to ACP Etmadpur.
Actually, the entire case is of Etmaduddaula police station. A Dalit trainee female inspector has made serious allegations against the station in-charge Durgesh Kumar Mishra. The female inspector has written a letter to the Police Commissioner saying that ever since she has joined the police station, the station in-charge has been harboring ill intentions towards her. He forcibly made her sit in the police station on the day of Holi. Then suddenly he caught her and started kissing her. When she protested, he threatened that if she told anything to anyone, he would report her. This is a new job, she will lose it. The lady inspector tolerated it, but even after this the indecent acts of the police station in-charge did not stop.
He filed a report when I took a room outside the police station
The lady inspector has written in a letter to the Police Commissioner- ‘The police station in-charge wanted to get me a room in the police station itself, but I took a room outside the police station. Due to this, he filed a report against me. When she went on leave on 9 June, her location was traced and she was threatened.’ The lady inspector alleges that the police station in-charge does not want her to get married, he pressurizes her to stay with him.’
The lady inspector has written to the Commissioner- “The police station in-charge called me on 20 June Thursday at 12 o’clock in the night and said that it is very hot. There is an AC in my room. Come and sleep here. When I rejected the police station in-charge’s proposal, he threatened to remove me from the police station and defame me.’ The lady inspector says that the station in-charge is constantly harassing her physically and mentally, and also keeps speaking wrongly about her Scheduled Caste.”
ACP will give investigation report in two days
Police Commissioner J Ravinder Gaur has taken the lady inspector’s complaint seriously. DCP City Suraj Kumar Rai says that the lady inspector’s allegations are very serious. ACP Etmadpur Sukanya Sharma has been given the investigation of the case. The ACP will give the investigation report in two days. The guilty will be punished.
Karnataka: Congress stares at internal struggle as Dalit leaders demand more Dy CM posts
Demand for creation of more deputy CM posts is said to be a ploy by Siddaramaiah to protect the CM’s chair from DK Shivakumar who has eyes on it
Naveen Ammembala
The Karnataka Congress is facing an internal struggle over the appointment of deputy chief ministers. With the Lok Sabha polls done and dusted, several leaders have demanded the creation of at least three deputy chief minister posts to represent prominent communities and brighten the party’s poll prospects in the future.
The demand, mostly made by senior leaders loyal to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, is however, being called a ploy by the chief minister to thwart attempts by his deputy DK Shivakumar to stake claim to the chief minister’s chair; and instead engage him in protecting his current turf.
Diversion tactic aimed at DKS?
Even though Shivakumar is eying the chief minister’s post, he doesn’t want to relinquish his current position until he is elevated. He is also not ready to share the deputy chief minister’s post with anyone else as he played a significant role in bringing the Congress to power in the state as President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).
As Shivakumar plans to stake claim to the chief minister’s chair after Siddaramaiah completes two and a half years in the post, the latter is said to be countering his deputy by raising the issue of additional chief ministers through his loyalists. Sources say Siddaramaiah’s team also plans to corner Shivakumar by highlighting his failure to retain the Vokkaliga belt in the Old Mysuru region during the Lok Sabha polls, where his brother lost.
In 2023, after the Congress won the Assembly polls in Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, an AHINDA (a Kannada acronym for minorities, backward classes, and Dalits) leader, was chosen as the chief minister by the party high command for his mass appeal among these communities.
Dalit leaders lobby for deputy CM post
As part of this apparent plan by Siddaramaiah, ministers including Satish Jarkiholi, KN Rajanna, and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan are openly advocating for the post of deputy chief ministers in Siddaramaiah’s cabinet. Jarkiholi, Rajanna, and Dr. G Parameshwara have also demanded the appointment of a Dalit deputy chief minister in Siddaramaiah’s cabinet.
A minister in Siddaramaiah’s cabinet has told The Federal that this move has been orchestrated to create a situation where Shivakumar will be content with the deputy chief minister’s position and not eye the chief minister’s post. In recent days, leaders have been commenting on having additional deputy chief ministers, irking the party high-command.
Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge had openly asked leaders not to comment on such issues before the Lok Sabha polls. As the polls are over now, Dalit leaders have raked up the issue and are said to be lobbying hard for a deputy chief minister from their community with the chief minister said to be directly supporting the move. Snub by high command?
While leaders from Siddaramaiah’s faction, including Khan and Jarkiholi, have raised the issue, minister Rajanna has suggested creating more deputy chief minister positions to represent different communities.
Sources say the state Congress leaders are likely to travel to Delhi soon to discuss the matter with the party high command. Jarkiholi has already gone to Delhi, and other leaders might meet with the high command as well, sources said.
However, Congress president Kharge’s son, Priyank Kharge, a minister in Siddaramaiah’s cabinet, has indirectly conveyed a message from his father to the chief minister’s alleged faction, questioning the need for multiple deputy chief ministers.
Reacting to Rajanna’s proposal, Priyank said that such a decision should be left to the senior leaders in Delhi. He reiterated that everyone has the right to ask for positions, but questioned the feasibility and effectiveness of having multiple deputy chief ministers.
Priyank also pointed out that the party needs to reflect on why it did not meet the seat expectations in the Lok Sabha elections. Power struggle
The emerging fight within the Karnataka Congress highlights the internal power struggle and challenges the party faces in maintaining unity and addressing the concerns of various community representatives. As the leaders prepare to take their case to the high command in Delhi, the outcome of this tussle will significantly impact the party’s future dynamics and leadership structure.
Before the Lok Sabha elections, Rajanna had demanded the creation of communitybased deputy chief minister positions, arguing that it would help secure the support of various communities for the party in the elections. Home Minister Parameshwara and Satish Jarkiholi, among others, had also expressed agreement with this idea, and internal meetings were held to discuss it.
The post of the deputy chief minister was created to accommodate Shivakumar, who was a strong contender for the chief minister’s position after the party won the Assembly polls in Karnataka. At that time, senior Congress leader Basavaraj Rayareddy had proposed making Shivakumar the principal deputy chief minister and appoint others as regular deputy chief ministers. This suggestion led to a heated discussion, and Shivakumar complained to the high command, resulting in a temporary halt to the debate.
BJP example
In the wake of the party’s underperformance in the Lok Sabha elections and ahead of the upcoming district, taluk panchayat, and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike elections, aspirant ministers have started issuing statements about the need for community-based deputy chief ministers again.
Jarkiholi has emphasised the need for collective discussions by senior party leaders in Delhi on the issue while Rajanna has said that ignoring leaders could rob the party of the trust among communities. Rajanna asserted that creating deputy chief ministers is a feasible option and the BJP has proved its efficacy in several states.
He argued that having more deputy chief ministers would increase community pride and trust in the party. Rajanna also mentioned that the topic wasn’t raised during the busy Lok Sabha election period but has now been brought up by several ministers, including Khan and Jarkiholi. The decision ultimately rests with the central leadership.
Here’s why aspirants want the creation of more deputy chief minister posts:
*Congress lost 19 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state because no community leadership was recognised prior to elections. * If deputy chief minister posts were created, they would have helped the party. *For the future, community leadership needs to be recognised as the party faces local body elections. Second-line leadership needs to be groomed for the party’s future in the state.
*Deputy chief minister posts should be given to a Dalit, a Lingayat, and a minority leader. Siddaramaiah represents the Backward Classes, and Shivakumar represents the Vokkaligas. Thus, the three other major communities should be given preference (the leaders propose a plan of one chief minister and four deputy chief ministers for Karnataka).
Courtesy : TFN
NEET, NET Controversy: Testing Times For India’s Education System
The recent controversy surrounding NEET and NET exams reveals deep-seated issues in India’s education system, exposing the fragility of national-level publ examinations and the dreams of millions of aspirants
Photo via Ravi Choudhary (PTI)NSUI activists raise slogans during their Chhattra Sansad Gherav protest against the alleged irregularities in NEET-UG and cancellation of UGC-NET exams, in New Delhi, Monday, June 24, 2024. Photo via Ravi Choudhary (PTI)
What happens to a country like India when a national-level public examination with lakhs of aspirants participating in it suddenly reveals cracks in the education system?
The dreams of close to 13 lakh aspirants were stalled when a flurry of reports of malpractices, exam postponement and cancellations emerged around medical entrance NEET and other examinations conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Investigations are on and Centre on Saturday sacked NTA chief Subodh Singh over the flak it has received. However, there isn’t any clarity on what happens to the dreams of the aspirants.
It all began on May 5 when an alleged paper leak case came to light during the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2024. On the day of the exam, the Patna Police arrested four individuals on suspicion of a paper leak. They arrested nine more people later and the case was transferred to Bihar Police’s Economic Offences Unit. Additionally, there was an outrage regarding awarding grace marks to 1,563 students who were compensated for “loss of time”.
Then, on the day of the exam results – June 4, also the day of Lok Sabha results – a massive uproar broke out among several aspirants and parents demanding a probe and seeking a “re-exam” over the alleged paper leak at multiple centres where students got high scores. As many as 67 students scored a perfect 720 this year, which is unprecedented in the NTA’s history, raising suspicions about irregularities. It was also alleged that grace marks contributed to 67 students sharing the top rank.
Amid litigation and protests in different parts of the country on the issue of alleged irregularities, three more public exams – UGC-NET, CSIR-UGC NET, and now NEET PG – were cancelled or postponed, stirring an unprecedented row over the agency’s functioning. As a result, the Education Ministry removed Subodh Kumar Singh as NTA Director General and put him on “compulsory wait” in the Department of Personnel and Training. It notified a seven-member panel headed by former ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan to ensure transparent, smooth and fair conduct of NTA examinations.
Courtesy : Outlook
What is the difference between Congress and BJP for Dalits?
Karnataka: Dalits get a raw deal in BJP, feel leaders
Some Dalits in BJP compare their party’s overtures to Dalits with that of Congress.
Bansy Kalappa
BENGALURU: All parties, including BJP, fight for Dalit votes. But despite supporting the saffron party, many Dalits are asking as to why they are getting a raw deal in the party organisation.
There is discontent among BJP’s Dalit leaders, who worked hard to get votes in Karnataka, despite an onslaught from Congress. But Congress claims to be taking care of its Dalit leaders, the prime example being Mallikarjun Khage, AICC president. Dalit leaders recall that there was panic among Dalit voters ahead of the Lok Sabha polls when BJP ex-MP Ananthkumar Hegde said the party could change the Constitution if it returns to power.
Dalit leaders said, “SCs and STs account for 24-25% of the state’s population, which translates to around 1.5 crore. Around 30% backed BJP. But some of them ask what has the community got despite 40-45 lakh Dalits voting for BJP.”
Some Dalits in BJP compare their party’s overtures to Dalits with that of Congress. They point out that the present Congress government has six Dalit ministers — Dr G Parameshwara, Dr HC Mahadevappa, KH Muniyappa, Priyank Kharge, RB Timmapur and Shivaraj Thangadagi. Until recently, the Siddaramaiah ministry had three Scheduled Tribe ministers in Satish Jarkiholi, KN Rajanna and B Nagendra, who quit recently. But during the previous BJP government, only Govind Karjol and Prabhu Chavan, who are SCs, and B Sriramulu, an ST, were ministers.
They said, “We were expecting Dalit leaders from Karnataka — seven-time MP Ramesh Jigajinagi and former DCM Govind Karjol, who is a first-time MP — to get ministerial berths in the Union cabinet, but they got nothing.” They said they cannot understand the state party unit’s obsession with upper castes — Lingayats and Vokkaligas.
The party president is a Lingayat, the Assembly Opposition leader is a Vokkaliga, and the post of LoP in the Council, which was till now occupied by a backward class, is now going to CT Ravi, a Vokkaliga. “Till the party convinces Dalits that it is not obsessed with upper castes, how will it reach the magic mark of 113 seats in Karnataka on its own,” they asked.
BJP has not managed to cross the halfway mark in any Assembly election, even when it was the single-largest party in 2008 and 2018.
Some Dalit leaders pointed out that in the Lok Sabha election, BJP lost Gulbarga (SC), Chamarajanagar (SC), Raichur (ST) and Bellary (ST) to Congress. “This proves that we are not able to convince Dalit voters. Remember, the same voters had elected BJP in 2019,” they added.
Courtesy : TNIE
The anti-Dalit face of the government of deliberately depriving the reserved category of adequate reservation in HCS recruitment has been exposed
Various organizations expressed anger over not giving proper reservation to SC BC in HCS recruitment – demanded high level investigation in the matter. There is a serious matter of gross neglect of reservation policy in HCS recruitment process 2023
In the serious matter of open violation of constitutional rights by depriving the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes of reservation in the result of HCS declared by Haryana Public Service Commission on June 14, 2024, a protest meeting was organized by various organizations at Guru Ravidas Temple under the aegis of Sarva Scheduled Caste Sangharsh Samiti under the joint chairmanship of Saini Sabha President Bishan Kumar Saini, National Organization Secretary and former President of Rashtriya Kumhar Mahasabha Kishanlal Luhaniwal and Guru Ravidas Mahasabha President Balbir Singh Baberwal. In the meeting, all the organizations expressed their anger and strongly condemned the government and sent a joint signed letter in this matter to the President, National Scheduled Caste Commission, Governor, Chief Minister and Chief Secretary of Haryana Government demanding that a high level in-depth investigation of this serious matter be conducted and strict action be taken against the guilty officers.
In the meeting, strong slogans were raised while demonstrating anger against the government. While conducting the meeting, General Secretary of Sangharsh Samiti and Chief Advisor of Kabir Samajik Utthan Sanstha Delhi, Birdi Chand Gothwal, while giving detailed information in the matter, said that in the HCS recruitments done by the government from the year 2019 to 2024, the government has openly violated the constitutional rights by ignoring proper reservation to the youth of Scheduled Caste and Backward Classes. In the HCS recruitment process 2022, out of the 20 reserved posts for the Scheduled Castes, only 06 youths were called for interview, whereas as per three times of 20, 60 youths should have been called, but instead of doing so, only 06 youths were selected and the remaining 14 posts were left vacant. The same situation was repeated by the government in the HCS recruitment process 2023 as well, in which out of the 31 reserved posts for the Scheduled Castes, only 22 youths were called for interview, whereas as per three times of 31, 93 youths should have been called. Here it is surprising that out of 31 posts, the government recruited only 22 posts and left 09 posts vacant. At the same time, in the backward class also, only 19 youths of the reserved category were called for interview, whereas as per the rules, three times more should be called. In this way, only 19 youths of the backward class were recruited, which is a blatant violation of reservation. Chandan Singh Jalwan, head of Sarva Anu Jati Sangharsh Samiti, Dr. Shivtaj Singh, vice-president and former principal of Haryana Awaaz Foundation, Anil Phandan, head of Haryana Pradesh Chamar Mahasabha etc. criticised the government in their joint statement and said that from the above facts it is evident that only those SC/BC youths who had a setting or were favourites of the government were called for interview and recruited in HCS and the rest of the youths were left to wander from door to door, which automatically exposes the casteist and anti-reservation ill-will of the government, which is a serious matter. It is worth mentioning here that instead of filling all the seats of the reserved category, some seats have been left vacant and they are later filled from the general category as a part of a well-planned strategy, but it is worth mentioning and regretting here that till date no seat of the general category has ever been left vacant. The youth and various organizations of the reserved category have been making the government aware of these irregularities, but despite this, the government is adamant on its discrimination-ridden stubbornness, which is not justified. In anger, Vice President of All India Reservation Bachao Sangharsh Samiti and former Tehsildar Lalaram Nahar said that in this matter, a case has also been filed in the Hon’ble High Court in the last period by CWP No. 10749 of 2023 Satish Kumar vs Haryana Government and others. There is great anger in all SC and BC society of Haryana due to this malicious anti-reservation and anti-constitution working style of the government and all Bahujan organizations strongly condemn this impractical working style of the government and also warn the government that the government should stop anti-reservation discrimination and take strict action against the guilty officers so that such irregularities are not repeated in future. In the event of not getting justice, all the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes of Haryana will be forced to make a strategy of protest, demonstration and dharna etc.
On this occasion, President of Dharamshala Khatik Sabha Dr. Satvir Singh Chauhan, Shivnarayan Morwal of Dhanak Samaj, State Auditor of Ravidas and Ambedkar Mahasabha Federation Ramkumar Dhainwal, Head and Principal of Empowerment Amar Singh Nimhoria, Vice President of Sangharsh Samiti and Rajesh Chawriya of Valmiki Sabha, Head of Dr. Ambedkar Jan Jagruti Manch Jaswant Bhati, Head of Block Ateli Prabhu Dayal and Treasurer Dayanand Sanwaria, Head of Dr. Ambedkar Youth Committee Anil Mahayach, General Secretary Mainpal Mahayach, Legal Advisor and Advocate of Bar Association Gajanand Dochaniya, Pyarelal Chavan of Kabir Samajik Utthan Sanstha Delhi, Secretary of Samajik Parivartan Sangh Sumer Singh Gothwal, General Secretary of Haryana Pradesh Chamar Mahasabha Gurdayal Singh Nahar, Ramchandra Gothwal, former Manager Jaipal Singh, former Chief Manager Madanlal Dadaiya and Vijay Siroha, former Vigilance Inspector Atar Singh Khinchi, former Head RC Grover, Hariram Siroha, Secretary Hazarilal Khatawala, Amarnath Siroha, Ramniwas, Kartar Singh Jaidia of Valmiki community, Rajendra Singh Jalwan, Kanhaiyalal Kaloria, Syotaj Singh Kothalkhurd, Mamanram, Nambardar Sadhuram, Balbir Singh, Advocate Subhash Comrade, Mohanlal and many other dignitaries were present.
How VCK won with big margins in Tamil Nadu LS polls when Dalit parties in other states drew a blank
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi won 2 seats while BSP drew a blank in UP & RPI(A) didn’t get to contest even a single seat in Maharashtra. Analysts say VCK tying up with INDIA bloc helped.
Chennai: Sometime in 1995, Thol Thirumavalavan, the then leader of the Dalit Panthers Movement, was seen on the streets of Tamil Nadu, aggressively protesting for the injustice against the Dalits.
It was at the same time, that the Ambedkarite leaders in other parts of India — Bahujan Samaj Party’s Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh and Ramdas Athawale of Republican Party of India (Athawale) in Maharashtra — were signing papers at their state secretariats as chief minister and state cabinet minister in their state.
Cut to 2024, Mayawati’s BSP drew a blank this time and Athawale did not even get to contest a single seat in the Lok Sabha elections. On the other hand, Thol
Thirumavalavan’s Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) won in Chidambaram and Villupuram with a vote share of 2.25 percent.
With this, after 25 years since entering into the electoral foray, the party has gained the State party recognition. VCK would be the fifth political party in Tamil Nadu, after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Paatali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Desiya Murpokku Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMDK) to earn the tag.
However, as PMK and DMDK have lost the recognition due to their past performances, VCK would be the third state party in Tamil Nadu. Meanwhile, Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK), which secured more than 8 percent of vote, is also likely to be recognised as a state party.
“At a time, when PMK and DMDK, who were recognised as a state party, have lost their recognition, a party that speaks of Ambedkarite ideology in South India, getting this recognition is historic. This movement is now being recognised as an organisation for all the people and it is a milestone in the 25 years of VCK’s journey,” Thol Thirumavalavan told ThePrint.
While the recognition of VCK is being welcomed as a gesture of acceptance by more common people than Dalits, Ambedkarite writers and researchers fear that its core idea of Dalit emancipation may be diluted in the future.
“There is fear that VCK might tone down their stance on Dalit issues, which might compromise on the interests of Dalits over the voter share of other castes” says writer Stalin Rajangam from Madurai, adding that in electoral politics, it may not be possible for once aggressive political movements to demonstrate the same kind of aggression.
But, VCK’s general secretary and MLA Sinthanai Selvan says that it cannot be considered as a compromise and that it could only be seen as a strategy to get the issue sorted through political power. “The ultimate aim is to attain political power without compromising on the ideology. Once you slowly start getting it, we can empower Dalits.”
The VCK traces its origin way back to 1982 when the Dalits Panther Iyakkam (DPI) was formed as a Tamil Nadu wing of Bharatiya Dalit Panthers (BDP). Political activist A. Malaichamy led the outfit, and Thirumavalavan joined it in 1988 while he was working in the forensic department in Madurai. After the demise of Malaichamy in 1989, Thirumavalavan was elected as the leader of DPI.
After nine years of groundwork in Madurai and the surrounding area, he founded a political party named VCK, inspired by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka.
Rejecting the Sanskritised names, in line with the Ambedkarite and Tamil nationalist ideology, Thirumavalavan renamed his father’s birthname Ramasamy into Tholkappiar after the author of Tholkappiam, an ancient extant Tamil literature, at a party conference in 2002.
Courtesy : The Print
‘Psychologically On Backfoot’: Rahul Gandhi Flags 10 Issues In ‘First 15 Days Of NDA’
Rahul Gandhi listed 10 issues that occurred in the first 15 days of the Modi 3.0 government. These included the NEET-UG 2024 question paper leak, deaths due to heatwave in North India, terror attacks in Kashmir, and more.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the governing National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it has failed in its first 15 days back in power.
He listed 10 issues that occurred in the first 15 days of the Modi 3.0 government. These included the NEET-UG 2024 question paper leak, deaths due to heatwave in North India, terror attacks in Kashmir, and more. Notably, Monday was also the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to power for a third consecutive term.
Gandhi listed 10 incidents and issues that have occurred since the Modi government began its third term, including:
- Horrific train accident
- Terrorist attacks in Kashmir
- The plight of passengers in trains
- NEET scam
- NEET PG cancelled
- UGC NET paper leak
- Milk, pulses, gas, toll and expensive
- Forests blazing with fire
- Water crisis
- Deaths due to lack of arrangements during heat wave
Gandhi accused the government of being “psychologically on the backfoot” and “busy saving his government”. He vowed that the opposition would continue to pressure the government and hold it accountable for its actions.
Earlier in the day, opposition leaders of Congress-led INDIA bloc marched to the Lok Sabha holding copies of the Constitution in their hands, leaders of the INDIA bloc marched to the Lok Sabha chamber.
Asked whether the message of the opposition was reaching out to the people, the former Congress president said, “Our message is reaching the public and no power can touch the Constitution of India and we will protect it.”
Courtesy : Outlook India
India’s parliament: How diverse and gender-balanced is it?(UPPER CASTE NEVER GIVES EQUALITY TO WOMEN/SC.STs/MINORITY)
Murali Krishnan in New Delhi
Newly elected lawmakers gathered for the first time after the general election delivered a setback to PM Modi’s ruling party, which lost its outright majority in parliament.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) addresses the media before the opening of the first parliamentary session at the Parliament in New Delhi on June 24, 2024
PM Modi has kept key posts unchanged in this government and the Cabinet remains dominated
The first session of India’s newly elected parliament began on Monday, with lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties taking their oaths.
The session will run until July 3.
It will give a preview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plans for his third term.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dominated the legislature during his first two terms in office as it enjoyed outright majority in the lower house of parliament.
It allowed the ruling party to push laws through parliament with only cursory debate.
But this year’s general election delivered the BJP a setback, with the party failing to secure a majority on its own and having to rely on its coalition partners to be in power.
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Not many women in Cabinet
Modi, 73, is only the second Indian prime minister to win a third straight term.
He has kept key posts unchanged in this government and the Cabinet remains dominated by the BJP.
Opposition politicians and political observers have criticized the inadequate representation of women and Muslims, India’s largest religious minority, in the council of ministers.
Derek O’Brien, a lawmaker from the opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, pointed out that only seven of the 71 ministers appointed by Modi in his third term are women.
“Of these, only two have been given key Cabinet positions,” he told DW, citing Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi.
Fewer opportunities
Zoya Hasan, a political scientist and professor emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, said that two notable features of the newly elected parliament are “fewer women and fewer Muslims than the previous one.”
She noted that political parties provided fewer opportunities for women to contest in the elections despite passing a law last year guaranteeing more seats for female politicians.
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The legislation, however, was expected to come into effect only after India’s next census, and after delimitation — which is the process of redrawing boundaries of constituencies and would be conducted in 2026.
According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), an election watchdog, less than 10% of the candidates who contested the elections were women.
Rights groups say women who want to enter politics in India still face deep-rooted structural constraints. These barriers can be attributed to societal attitudes, discrimination, and lack of access to resources, among other problems.
Many from political families
Cynthia Stephen, a social policy researcher, told DW that most women who get party tickets to contest polls tend to come from influential political families.
“But there are plenty of politically active individual women in the parties, as grassroots and higher-level political activists, who are denied party tickets on the grounds of ‘winnability,’ which is a vaguely defined term,” she said.
“We have not managed to increase the number of female lawmakers beyond 15% since the 1950s. We have a long way to go,” Stephen added. “Overall, the elections do not adequately represent the population and its political will as money and muscle power strongly impact the choice of candidates.”
O’Brien, the TMC politician, said that 11 of the 12 women candidates nominated by his party in the eastern state of West Bengal won the recent elections.
“West Bengal is getting there” toward gender parity, he stressed. “The rest of India has a good example to follow.”
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Low share of Muslim lawmakers
The newly elected parliament also has the lowest share of Muslim lawmakers in six decades, with less than 5% of its members coming from India’s largest religious minority, which accounts for about 15% of the nation’s over 1.4 billion people.
None of the ruling BJP’s 240 MPs is Muslim. And Modi hasn’t named a single minister from the community.
Aditi Narayan Paswan, an assistant professor of Delhi University, believes the minority discourse in India should not be reduced to a Hindu-Muslim binary.
“We have Kiren Rijiju who has been appointed as the first Buddhist to lead the Minority Affairs Ministry,” he said.
“What is noteworthy is to see the representation of Jitan Ram Manjhi from the Musahar community and being a part of the Modi 3.0 cabinet,” Paswan told DW.
The Musahars are a socially marginalized community placed at the bottom rung of India’s hierarchical caste system
Hasan said an adequate political representation of Muslims and other disadvantaged groups is necessary for democracy and diversity to thrive.
“Political exclusion is a consequence of competitive communal politics in India. But democracy requires fair representation of all groups.”
Edited by: Srinivas Mazumdaru
Courtesy : DW
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UP tourism minister Jaiveer Singh directed the officials to promote and market the various Buddhist Circuit destinations of UP at the national and international levels
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Moreover, UP Tourism will invest ~30 crore in the Buddhist site of Sankisa, in Farrukhabad district. The proposal also includes the setting up of a Buddhist Museum over an area of 2.25 acres.
Meanwhile, the state tourism department in collaboration with the union tourism ministry will jointly conduct a survey to assess tourist footfall in UP.
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