[ad_1] Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai (Photo: Twitter) Kalaburagi: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday asked state Congress President D.K. Shivakumar does he think “Dalits and backward classes are beggars?” Reacting to Shivakumar’s statement that Lingayats and Vokkaligas are not beggars, the Chief Minister said during a roadshow in support of the BJP candidate in … Read more
[ad_1] Lucknow: Senior BJP leader Dinesh Sharma hit out at the opposition parties in UP on Thursday for demanding a caste-based census, asserting that they care for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Dalits only when they are removed from power. Targeting the Samajwadi Party, Sharma said their leaders should be asked why they did … Read more
[ad_1] Mallikarjun Kharge addressing a ‘Jai Bharat Satyagraha Sabha’ at Mancherial in Telangana Hyderabad: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Friday targeted the BRS government in Telangana, accusing it of not fulfilling its promises, including providing three acres of land to Dalits. He also said that it was because of his party that a person like him … Read more
[ad_1] New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said some “anti-national” people in the country sent Manish Sisodia to jail because they do not want quality education for Dalit and underprivileged children. Kejriwal also said he holds B R Ambedkar in higher regard than Mahatma Gandhi because of his unshakable resolve in the … Read more
[ad_1] Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar. Hyderabad: Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao apologise to Dalits for what he called betraying the community. Sanjay said Chief Minister KCR “failed” to fulfill the promise to make a Dalit the first chief minister of Telangana. He alleged … Read more
[ad_1] London: A 68-year-old Indian-origin man has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by a UK court over a video he posted on social media found to be offensive to certain communities. Amrik Bajwa from Slough in Berkshire, south-east England, was sentenced and fined GBP 240 last week after pleading guilty to one count of … Read more
[ad_1] London: A 68-year-old Indian-origin Sikh in the UK has been prosecuted and sentenced to 18 weeks in jail for posting hate speech on social media targeting Dalit communities. Amrik Bajwa, 68, of Bowyer Drive, Slough, was sentenced to 18 weeks’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to one count of sending offensive/indecent/obscene/menacing message/matter via public communication … Read more
[ad_1] Police pacifying angry Dalits who blocked the Vikravandi-Kumbakonam road on late Friday night The Vikravandi-Kumbakonam road was seized in protest by Dalits of Melpathi village near Koliyanur in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram district after they were disallowed by upper-caste Hindus from entering a temple. According to reports, the incident took place on Friday night when … Read more
[ad_1] New Delhi: A survey has shown a “high-level” of public support for certain forms of government surveillance like through CCTV cameras even as the poor and groups such as Dalits and Muslims have the “least” trust in the police. Surveyors from NGO Common Cause and the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study … Read more
[ad_1] Andhra Pradesh BJP President Somu Veerraju Andhra Pradesh BJP president Somu Veerraju chastised the YSRCP-led state administration for passing a motion in the state Legislature requesting the Centre to modify the Constitution to grant Schedule Caste status to SCs who converted to Christianity. Veerraju urged that the YSRC administration rescind the resolution, claiming that … Read more