Addressing a poll rally in Punjab's Hoshiarpur, Delhi CM Kejriwal said that Charanjit Singh Channi belongs to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and is asking people of his community to vote for him.
The scheduled castes also alleged that they are not being allowed to go to their own farms due to the boycott. Any person who is seen giving any ration supplies to the Dalits, they said, is being fined Rs.11,000.
This is the second time Mayawati slammed Cong's silence in the matter. Earlier on Sunday, she had asked whether the chief ministers of Punjab and Chhattisgarh would visit Hanumangarh to provide compensation to the Dalit victim's family.
Earlier on Thursday, a man was thrashed to death at Rohi Prempura village of Hanumangarh district in Rajasthan.
The high court had sought to ban the use of the word because the same does not figure anywhere in the Constitution or any statute, Punjab Schedule Caste Commission chairperson Tejinder Kaur said.
The BSP president said she has come to know that assembly elections in Punjab will be fought under a non-Dalit leader and not under Channi.
After a Dalit CM in Punjab, the Congress is eyeing gains in Uttarakhand but it is unlikely that the party will get much traction in UP as Mayawati is a formidable force in the state and non-Jatav Dalits have mostly aligned with the BJP.
The Delhi Police has told a local court that no evidence could be collected so far to confirm the rape.
Upon receiving the complaint, the NCSC issued a notice to the Deputy Commissioner and Senior Superintendent of Police, Muktsar, seeking an action-taken report within 15 days.
He was speaking at an event organised by the India Foundation for the launch of a book, titled "Makers Of Modern Dalit History".
Elections for the Uttar Pradesh assembly may be early next year, but attempts to redraw the political landscape have already begun. And in the state so influenced by caste arithmetic, it is the small players, the extras of politics, that can be the “make or break" factor for the mainstream parties.
The incident took place in Aghu Kamalpur village of Akbarpur area on Thursday but came to light on Friday evening when a video clip went viral.
The youth, said to be in a relation with a girl, was beaten up by her relatives and other villagers when he had come to meet her. It's being said that he was also hit on his private parts with a stick.
The Director-General of Police (DGP) Mahender Reddy has been instructed to conduct the inquiry about the lock-up death of the Dalit women Mariamma and to take stringent action against the police personnel responsible as per the law.
A Muslim family bludgeoned their daughter and a Dalit youth to death in Vijayapura district as they were in love against their wishes.
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in response to a question in Rajya Sabha said that Dalit converting to Islam or Christianity cannot claim reservation benefits and it will also deprive the person the eligibility to contest parliamentary or Assembly election from constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC).
Dharampal Diwakar died by suicide at his house in Aasta village under the Malwan police station limits on Tuesday, Station House Officer Sher Singh Rajput said on Wednesday.
In an FIR lodged at the Bisanda police station, Ramchandra Raidas has alleged that family members of Ram Dayal Yadav attacked him with sticks when he went to take water from the handpump in Tendura village here in the morning, Station House Officer Narendra Pratap Singh said.
ASP Rajesh Kumar said the bodies of Sumi (12) and Kiran (8), daughters of Dilip Dhobhi, a Dalit, were retrieved from the pond. Both the bodies had injury marks in the eyes, he said.
A 65-yr-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten and forced to drink urine in Village Roda by a person against whom victim's family had filed a police complaint a week ago.
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