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Karnataka: Dalit organisation demands ordinance on internal reservation
Bengaluru: The ‘Scheduled Castes Association for Social Justice’ on Monday staged a protest at Freedom Park demanding the state government to implement internal reservation among scheduled castes through an ordinance. On August 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that there was no constitutional bar for state governments to implement internal reservation. The Congress party had included internal reservation as per the recommendation of the Justice AJ Sadashiva Committee in its manifesto for the 2023 state elections.
The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government had sent a recommendation to the central government seeking a constitutional amendment to implement internal reservation before the Supreme Court verdict. “No action has been taken since the Supreme Court verdict, leaving members of the SC community upset,” the protesters said.
The group demanded that the state government implement internal reservation through an ordinance and raise the issue in its cabinet meeting to be held in Kalaburagi on Tuesday. Dalit leader Basavaraj Kauthal, who represents the Sangh, told DH, “The struggle for internal reservation has been going on for 30 years. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has also welcomed it. It is his responsibility to implement internal reservation. We want the government to implement internal reservation in the next two months.”
Courtesy : Hindi News
MP: Dalit Girl Gang-Raped in Sagar, Women’s Congress Protest Against Administrative Inaction
The victim’s family and various community groups accuse the police and administration of trying to suppress the case, demanding swift and decisive action against the culprits.
Ankit Pachauri
Sagar- In a shocking incident in Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh, a young Dalit girl was reportedly gang-raped in a tribal boys’ hostel. The perpetrators allegedly lured the girl into the hostel, where they assaulted her in turn. The incident has sparked outrage, with serious concerns over the slow response from both the police and the administration.
Although a case has been registered and two suspects have been arrested, the sluggish pace of the investigation and the silence of authorities have fueled anger among locals.
The crime, which occurred on Sunday, has drawn widespread condemnation. The victim’s family and various community groups accuse the police and administration of trying to suppress the case, demanding swift and decisive action against the culprits.
Women’s Congress Stages Protest
In response to the perceived inaction, the Women’s Congress, led by its state president Vibha Patel, held a large-scale protest. A strong protest that took place on Thursday in front of the Sagar Collectorate office, saw a significant turnout of women demanding justice for the victim.
Vibha Patel emphasized that this is not just an isolated incident involving a Dalit girl, but a symbol of the larger issue of caste and gender-based violence prevalent in society. She affirmed the Women’s Congress’ commitment to giving a strong voice to the issue, in light of administrative inaction and the slow pace of the police investigation. During the protest, a memorandum was submitted to the Collector, demanding strict action against the perpetrators.
The Women’s Congress has vowed to lead a movement against the injustice prevailing in society.
Courtesy : The Mooknayak
Madhya Pradesh NEWS STATE TRIBAL
Madhya Pradesh: 20 Months On, Dalits and Adivasis Left Without Land or Residential Plots—Shivraj Singh’s Promise Falls Flat!
Dalits and Adivasis are running from one official to another, holding the land titles that were distributed by the Chief Minister himself in January 2023.
Bhopal- On January 4, 2023, then-Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, launched a grand initiative to distribute residential land titles to Dalits, Adivasis, and the landless in the state. This initiative was inaugurated at the Bagaj Mata Temple in Tikamgarh district, where a large program was organized to hand out these titles.
However, 20 months have passed, and the Dalits and Adivasis who were promised land still have not received possession of it, nor have they received their residential plots. Now, these Dalits and Adivasis are running from one official to another, holding the land titles that were distributed by the Chief Minister himself.
In the Gram Panchayat of Keshavgarh in Tikamgarh, 64 people were given land titles by then-Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan personally. In the districts of Tikamgarh and Niwari, 10,000 people were awarded residential land titles, with some of these being distributed directly by the Chief Minister during the event. However, these titles have turned into a source of frustration for many.
According to media reports, a resident of Keshavgarh Gram Panchayat stated that they were handed the title by the Chief Minister on January 4, 2024 but they have yet to receive the land.
The resident mentioned that they had submitted multiple applications to the Mohangarh Tehsildar, Jatara SDM, and the Tikamgarh Collector, requesting action. The land is still under the control of powerful individuals from the village, but despite the passing of 20 months, the administration has failed to remove the encroachment.
Another resident of the village, Devendra, shared a similar story. He said that he went to the Bagaj Mata Temple at the request of district officials, where he was given a residential land title by the then-Chief Minister. However, he still hasn’t received possession of the land. Tikamgarh Collector, Awadhesh Sharma, said that the issue has been brought to his attention and assured that the encroachment will be cleared, and the rightful landholders will be given possession.
Courtesy : The Mooknayak
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TN: Body of accused in rape and murder of minor Dalit girl found in Kalapet jail in Puducherry
Puducherry: G Vivekanandan (56), an undertrial in the rape and murder case of a nine-year-old Dalit girl in Muthialpet, committed suicide in the toilet of his cell in the Central Prison, Kalapet on Monday morning. Another undertrial accused in the case, Karuna (19), who was lodged in the same cell with Vivekanandan, heard a sound around 5 am and realised that Vivekanandan had committed suicide and raised an alarm, a jail official said. A case has been registered at the Kalapet police station and his body has been sent to the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital for post-mortem.
The nine-year-old Dalit girl was abducted, sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in March this year. The horrific incident came to light when the girl’s body was recovered in a sack from a drain near her house in Solainagar on March 5. The incident triggered massive outrage. Two neighbours of the victim, Vivekanandan and Karuna, were arrested and lodged in the central prison at Kalapet. In May, the police filed a 500-page chargesheet in the case. Jail superintendent V Bhaskaran had said on March 11 that Vivekanandan was harboring suicidal thoughts since his arrest.
On March 7, on the advice of Superintendent of Police (East) Lakshmi Soujanya, Vivekanandan was kept in a separate cell with his co-accused for security reasons. During counselling, he expressed remorse and wanted to end his life, officials said. Jail officials have been keeping a close watch on him since then, Bhaskaran said. A separate warder is keeping a close watch on the two inmates, he said.
Courtesy : Hindi News
Dalit man thrashed for entering temple in Karntaka, 6 held
BAGALKOT: Kerur police in Badami taluk of Bagalkot district have registered an FIR against 21 persons following a complaint from a 28-year-old Dalit man that he was assaulted for entering Dyamavva temple in Ugalwat village.
Arjun Madar of the village, in a complaint to police on Saturday, said he was tied to a pole and thrashed by a group of people on Sept 10 for entering the temple in the village.
The incident came to light after Arjun filed the complaint. Dalit leaders have urged police to take stringent action against those who assaulted Arjun and have threatened to launch an agitation in front of the district administration office in Bagalkot.
Fir against 21
District minister RB Timmapur said six persons have been taken into custody. Further action will be initiated after investigating the allegations, he added.
Maintain peace and harmony, appeal officials
Bagalkot SP Y Amarnath Reddy visited the village and reviewed the situation. He said there was public announcement in the village by some people that Dalits should not enter the area where the upper-caste people reside and vice-versa.
Deputy commissioner Janaki KM and superintendent of police Y Amarnath Reddy visited the village on Sunday and held a meeting with members of Dalit and other communities and appealed to them to maintain peace and harmony.
Courtesy : Times Of India
Dalits enter, pray at temple near Chennai after 12 years
CHENNAI: Caste discrimination is still rampant on the outskirts of Chennai – at a village called Vazhuthalambedu in Gummidipoondi. The dominant vanniyar community refuses to let scheduled castes walk through the streets to pray at the Bidari Ettiyamman Temple in the village.
On Monday, however, Tiruvallur collector Prabhu Sankar and superintendent of police Srinivasa Perumal intervened and ensured scheduled castes prayed at the temple.
But tension remains as a section of vanniyars objects to scheduled castes, who live in a colony outside the village, using the streets in front of their houses.
There is another path to the temple that doesn’t pass through the vanniyar habitations. But the vanniyars have spread paddy to dry along this path and said no one should walk over it, said Prabhu Shankar who is holding talks to resolve the issue.
The problem has been there since the temple was built on poramboke land near a pond in 1958. In 1998, the HR&CE department took over administration of the temple.
But the temple was locked and sealed in 2002 after vanniyars objected to scheduled castes visiting the temple for the kumbhabhishekam, officials said.
The temple was reopened 10 years later for another kumbhabhishekam and the same story played out. It has remained out of bounds for scheduled castes since 2012. Community leaders said they stayed away to avoid trouble.
This year, the HR&CE department performed kumbhabhishekam on Aug 9 after a peace meeting on Aug 5 at which revenue officials hammered out a compromise between the two communities.
However, a day after the kumbhabhishekam, scheduled castes were again stopped from using the street that led to the temple. The temple was again locked and sealed by revenue officials.
Meanwhile, police registered a case against 1,500 people for preventing scheduled castes from entering the temple.
76L to resolve demands
Collector Prabhu Sankar said the govt has come up with a possible solution.
“We reviewed the revenue documents and confirmed that the 160 metres connecting the village to the temple was originally donated to the temple. Now, we have transferred the donated land and registered it in the HR&CE department’s name, so that all the public can use the stretch. The district administration has agreed to lay a road to each the temple,” he said.
“I patiently heard the grievances of both sides. The villagers asked for separate mantapams, separate provision for cremation and so on. We agreed to sanction 76 lakh to resolve their demands,” said Prabhu Sankar.
Courtesy : Times of India
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Ayodhya Police Under Fire for Gang Rape of Dalit Sanitation Worker Who Works at Ram Janmabhoomi Complex
The girl alleged that a police officer offered her family a monetary settlement in an attempt to dissuade her from lodging an FIR. The officer told her father that it would be best for her if she didn’t step out of the house and settled the matter, she noted.
Omar Rashid
New Delhi: Weeks after it demolished a shopping complex and a bakery owned by a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader over allegations of rape in Ayodhya, the police administration in the high profile district is under fire for allegedly delaying action after a Dalit girl employed as a sanitation worker in the Ram Janmabhoomi complex was allegedly gangraped.
The victim has alleged that when she went to lodge a complaint against the accused persons, the local police station officer tried to dissuade her from pursuing legal action and even offered to get the matter closed through a monetary settlement.
Ayodhya police, facing widespread criticism on social media after the girl’s allegations were widely shared, has dismissed the allegations and said that the girl’s statement was registered before a judicial magistrate.
“No police personnel is present there,” said Ayodhya police. So far, the police have arrested seven persons in connection with the crime — Sharik and two minors on charges of gangrape; Vinay Pasi, Shiva Sonkar, Udit Singh and Satyam for outraging the modesty of a woman.
In her statement to the media, the girl said that eight persons were involved in the crime. The Wire cannot independently verify the content of her police complaint or her judicial statement, as the police has not made the FIR or the sections invoked in it available.
On the basis of the girl’s statements to the media, it is alleged that she was gangraped multiple times from August 16-25 by a boy she had been in a relationship with and other men known to him. The girl alleged that the men also made videos of the sexual assault and blackmailed her saying if she went to the police, they would harm her family.
“On August 28, when I was going to the women police station to register my complaint they called me and threatened me that if I complained they would do the same to my sisters and that it won’t be good for my family,” she said.
The girl, a college student, also works as a sanitation worker in the Ram Janmabhoomi complex. She alleged that her romantic partner invited her to a guesthouse where four of his friends were already waiting. The two had been in a relationship for a year, she said.
She alleged that she tried to escape from the room but they overpowered her. Due to an impact on her head, she lost consciousness, she said. Further, the girl alleged that she was then raped by the accused persons. When she woke up, she found only two of the men in the room.
Afterwards, she alleged, they took her to a garage and raped her again. Since they had made videos of her, they used it as a blackmailing tool to summon her on other occasions, she mentioned. “Due to fear, I didn’t tell the police or my family.”
The girl also claimed that when she went to the police, they initially refused to register her complaint and even raised doubts over her allegations.
“They said my allegations were fake and that they would first probe the case and then take action,” she said.
The girl alleged that a police officer offered her family a monetary settlement in an attempt to dissuade her from lodging an FIR. The officer told her father that it would be best for her if she didn’t step out of the house and settled the matter, she noted.
An FIR was registered in the case finally on September 2 at the Cantonment police station. The girl said that even after waiting for 36 hours she was not given a copy of the FIR.
Posting a clip of her narrating her ordeal on a television channel, SP president Akhilesh Yadav said that the case had revealed the “main reason” behind the “increasing torture and atrocities” against women in Uttar Pradesh. “How a victim has to go through so much torture to get an FIR registered due to some insensitive police personnel,” Yadav said on X.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister demanded that strict punitive action be taken against the responsible police personnel.
“Due to the complications in getting an FIR registered, so many criminal cases are not recorded. This emboldens criminals,” said Yadav.
Senior superintendent of police Ayodhya, Raj Karan Nayyar said the girl’s statement was registered before a judicial magistrate under BNSS Section 183 on September 3, a day after an FIR was lodged on the basis of her written complaint.
In her statement, she said has accused three persons of “durachar (rape)” and the others for outraging her modesty, said the officer.
The Dalit girl’s rape case comes on the heels of another much-talked-about rape case that was reported in the same district last month. Moeed Khan, a leader of SP and his staff members at the bakery he owns, were arrested on charges of raping a minor girl from the Nishad OBC community.
The minor girl also had to undergo an abortion. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) linked the matter to the Opposition SP and highlighted the fact that the accused Moeed Khan was associated with Awadhesh Prasad, the SP’s Member of Parliament from Faizabad constituency.
Chief minister Adityanath even raised the case to target the SP in the Uttar Pradesh assembly on August 1. Adityanath focused on the victim’s caste identity.
A day later, Adityanath met the parents of the victim and assured them that the guilty would not be spared at any cost. Following this, the district administration demolished the bakery owned by Khan, alleging that it was an unauthorised construction built on government land. The administration also demolished a multi-storey complex belonging to Khan, alleging that it was illegally built although it has stood there for eight years.
Courtesy : The Wire.
Of mattu vaal soup, blood gravy and other dalit delicacies
Vinegar beef curry with bread, pork curry with rice or ragi kali, bone broth mixed in rasam, oxtail soup — these are just some of the dishes of dalit tribes from across India: adi dravidars and adivasis. But the origins of these dishes also tell the post-colonial history of Madras and India through food — how certain ingredients became ‘impure’ only because they were being used by the dalit tribes, says Shalin Maria Lawrence, dalit activist and author of the book ‘The Great Indian Dalit Kitchen: Madras Table’ who is conducting a workshop on the subject next month.
“Dalit dishes are rich in texture, taste, spices, medicinal properties, and ingredients, says Shalin. The adi dravidars were permitted to consume only dead cattle and so they made most of it when one died, she says. “The skin, meat, blood, organs, bones, and even the bone tallow are used in dishes,” says Shalin. This paved the way for unique dishes such as mattu vaal kozhambu (oxtail soup), gravy with cow hooves, kudal kozhambu and dried fish gravy. “Adi dravidars and adivasis are among the only communities which still eat meat from skin to bone.”
Maharashtra-based Shahu Patole, author of ‘The Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada’, says lakuti/lakushi or blood gravy, is a sought-after dish in dalit households in the state. “The blood is cooked until it turns a dark chocolate brown. The chunks are broken by hand, spices added and brought to a boil.”
Some dishes started out as a means to preserve meat. For example, a savoury beef gravy is made by adding raw mango, chillies, onion and other spices to smoked beef, made by cutting the meat into pieces and hanging them on a thread above the kitchen stove. The heat generated slowly ages the meat, drying it and giving it a smoky flavour.
Adi dravidars were also world-famous innovators. A B Rajsekaran, an advocate and dalit history enthusiast, says it was the butlers and cooks from Black Town who created the mulligatawny soup for the British, using boiled rice water, pepper and bone broth, he says. “It is now popular in the UK and different parts of the world. Another contribution is the Madras curry powder, a condiment made by P Vencatachellum, a dalit from Madras during the colonial era,” he says.
During the 1972 drought of Marathwada, the dalits in rural areas were forced to eat sorghum rotis with chilli powder, ground nut oil, smashed green chillies, and onions. “Soon, this became a food which upper-caste labourers shunned,” says Shahu.
But each household has its own way of handling meat, and one should not put down the dishes of dalits under one cuisine, says Rajasekaran.
Vinegar beef curry with bread, pork curry with rice or ragi kali, bone broth mixed in rasam, oxtail soup — these are just some of the dishes of dalit tribes from across India: adi dravidars and adivasis. But the origins of these dishes also tell the post-colonial history of Madras and India through food — how certain ingredients became ‘impure’ only because they were being used by the dalit tribes, says Shalin Maria Lawrence, dalit activist and author of the book ‘The Great Indian Dalit Kitchen: Madras Table’ who is conducting a workshop on the subject next month.
“Dalit dishes are rich in texture, taste, spices, medicinal properties, and ingredients, says Shalin. The adi dravidars were permitted to consume only dead cattle and so they made most of it when one died, she says. “The skin, meat, blood, organs, bones, and even the bone tallow are used in dishes,” says Shalin. This paved the way for unique dishes such as mattu vaal kozhambu (oxtail soup), gravy with cow hooves, kudal kozhambu and dried fish gravy. “Adi dravidars and adivasis are among the only communities which still eat meat from skin to bone.”
Maharashtra-based Shahu Patole, author of ‘The Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada’, says lakuti/lakushi or blood gravy, is a sought-after dish in dalit households in the state. “The blood is cooked until it turns a dark chocolate brown. The chunks are broken by hand, spices added and brought to a boil.”
Some dishes started out as a means to preserve meat. For example, a savoury beef gravy is made by adding raw mango, chillies, onion and other spices to smoked beef, made by cutting the meat into pieces and hanging them on a thread above the kitchen stove. The heat generated slowly ages the meat, drying it and giving it a smoky flavour.
Adi dravidars were also world-famous innovators. A B Rajsekaran, an advocate and dalit history enthusiast, says it was the butlers and cooks from Black Town who created the mulligatawny soup for the British, using boiled rice water, pepper and bone broth, he says. “It is now popular in the UK and different parts of the world. Another contribution is the Madras curry powder, a condiment made by P Vencatachellum, a dalit from Madras during the colonial era,” he says.
During the 1972 drought of Marathwada, the dalits in rural areas were forced to eat sorghum rotis with chilli powder, ground nut oil, smashed green chillies, and onions. “Soon, this became a food which upper-caste labourers shunned,” says Shahu.
But each household has its own way of handling meat, and one should not put down the dishes of dalits under one cuisine, says Rajasekaran.
Courtesy : TOI
Buddhists celebrate Madhu Purnima tomorrow
BSS
Update : 16 Sep 2024, 15:20
DHAKA, Sept 16, 2024 (BSS) - The Buddhist community will celebrate one of their major religious festivals 'Madhu Purnima' in the city as elsewhere in the country tomorrow with solemn devotion and traditional enthusiasm.
The Buddhists in Bangladesh, especially in the region of Dhaka, Chattogram and three hill districts will celebrate the day as Honey Full Moon Festival or Honey-offering Festival on the day of the full moon in September.
Madhu Purnima, one of the sacred festivals, is celebrated on the day of the full moon in the Bangla month Bhadra, in commemoration of the service and support rendered by the animals of the Parilyeyo forest, India to Buddha.
According to legend, a monkey and an elephant named Parileyyaka fed Buddha during this time, the elephant bringing fruit and the monkey bringing a honeycomb.
The monkey was so excited when the Buddha accepted his gift that he began leaping from tree to tree and finally fell to his death. However, he was immediately reborn in Tavatimsa as a result of his generosity.
The day's programmes will herald the with hoisting of the national and religious flags atop all monasteries, chanting of the sacred verses from the Tripitaka.
Breaking of fasting by the monks, discussion meetings, offering of honey, blood donation and illumination in the evening in all monasteries are other highlights of the programmes.
In the city, main religious congregations will be held at Kamalapur Dharmarjik Bouddha Bihar, International Buddhist Monastery at Badda, Ashuliya Bidorshan Bhabona Kendra in Savar, Adibashi Buddhist Temple in Mirpur and other Buddhist temples of the city.
Besides, the main religious congregations in Chattogram will be held at Nandankanon Buddhist Temple, Katalganj Navapandit Bihar, Purnachar International Buddhist Monastery at Devpahar, Mughaltuli Saikkymuni Shoshan Vihar, Agrabad and Chandgaon Biswamoitri Vihar.
Special prayers seeking continued peace and progress of the
nation as well as global peace will also be offered in all monasteries.
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