[ad_1] Representative Image Hyderabad: Congress MLC Jeevan Reddy has made serious allegations of large-scale corruption in the implementation of the Dalit Bandhu scheme. Reddy accused BRS MLAs of receiving funds from the scheme’s beneficiaries and called for action against them. Despite media reports on this issue, Chief Minister KCR hasContinue Reading
[ad_1] Hyderabad: BJP leader K Laxman on Friday found fault with Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for allegedly not responding to the release of former Bihar MP Anand Mohan Singh, who was convicted in the 1994 murder of an IAS officer from Telangana. The Rajya Sabha MP termed asContinue Reading
[ad_1] Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin introduced a motion in the Assembly on Wednesday seeking to include Dalit Christians into the purview of the Scheduled Castes (SC) quota, stating that doing so will allow them to benefit from social justice inContinue Reading
[ad_1] Muzaffarnagar: A special court here on Saturday convicted a man of sodomising an eight-year-old Dalit boy about seven years ago and sentenced him to life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 30,000, said a court official. District Government Advocate Rajeev Sharma told PTI-Bhasha on Saturday that the SpecialContinue Reading
[ad_1] Representative Image Lucknow: A group of youths, working as property dealers, allegedly attacked a Dalit man here to stop him from selling his land. They hurled casteist remarks and demanding extortion from him in Lucknow’s Indira Nagar, the police said. Deen Dayal of Rasoolpur Sadat village under Indira NagarContinue Reading
[ad_1] Jaipur: A Dalit woman was allegedly raped and set ablaze in Rajasthan’s Barmer district, police said on Friday. The victim, who suffered 40 per cent burn injuries, is undergoing treatment at a government hospital in Jodhpur, they said. Pachpadra police station SHO Rajendra Singh said the alleged incident occurredContinue Reading
[ad_1] Lucknow: In the run-up to next year’s Lok Sabha elections, the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh is set to invoke the infamous “guesthouse incident” of 1995 to woo Dalits. The UP BJP’s Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Morcha will run a three-week statewide campaign starting on Ambedkar Jayanti (April 14) toContinue Reading
[ad_1] Hyderabad: Dalit intellectuals have hailed the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government of Telangana for installing a 125-foot statue of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. The University Grants Commission’s (UGC) former Chairman Prof Sukhadeo Thorat and other intellectuals visited the statue which is coming up near Hussain Sagar in the heart ofContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: The memoir of Yogesh Maitreya, a leading independent Indian Dalit publisher, writer and poet, will hit the stands on April 22, announced Penguin Random House India (PRHI) on Sunday. Encompassing experiences of pain, loneliness, depravation, alienation, and the political consciousness of his caste identity, the intimately movingContinue Reading
[ad_1] Lucknow: Having given up all hopes of an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party (SP) is now going all out to woo the Dalits. The party will use the upcoming Ambedkar Jayanti to kick off its campaign. SP presidentContinue Reading