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Kharge’s Dalit Card: How Wild It Will Be?
Without questioning West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s and her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal’s intention on proposing the name of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, a Dalit, as the Prime Ministerial face of…
- India
UP: Dalit man die by suicide after alleged harassment over outstanding loan
Gorakhpur: A 50-year-old Dalit man dies by suicide here by hanging himself after an alleged harassment over an outstanding loan, said police on Tuesday. The deceased named Koeel Bharti, a resident of…
- Bangalore
Ex-BJP MLA reiterates he faced insult for being Dalit in Nagpur
Bengaluru: Former BJP MLA Goolihatti Shekar has reiterated that he faced an insult for being a Dalit when he visited Hedgewar’s memorial in Nagpur. An audio of Sheakar challenging BJP leaders and…
- India
Kharge slams BJP for fielding MLA accused of beating Dalit engineer
Jaipur: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said it was shameful that the BJP fielded MLA Girraj Singh Malinga, who was refused a ticket by Congress after he was accused of brutally thrashing…
- Telangana
KCR’s false promises lead to Dalit youth’s death in Adilabad: Mallu Bhatti
Hyderabad: CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka has demanded that the chief minister order an inquiry into the suicide of a Dalit youth, Ramakanth, in Adilabad and justice be delivered to the hapless…
- India
Did Dalit prez K.R.Narayanan’s 103rd birthday go ‘unnoticed’ in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: It turns out that the 103rd birth anniversary of K.R. Narayanan, country’s first Dalit president and the first individual from Kerala to hold the top office in the country, for some…
- India
Bihar: Dalit driver lynched after accident on Patna’s outskirts
Patna: The driver of a pick-up van was beaten to death on Patna’s outskirts on Sunday after he mowed down a three-year-old girl, police said. The incident was reported from Sogahi Kushpur…
- India
Bihar: Urination on Dalit women’s mouth could not be established during probe, say cops
Patna: Two days after a Dalit woman alleged that she was stripped, assaulted and urinated on her mouth by a moneylender and his associates in Bihar’s Patna district apparently for complaining to…
- India
RSS to step up drive against love jihad, conversions
Lucknow: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will now step up a campaign against “love jihad” and illegal religious conversion through enticements. It will also get women, Dalits and Other Backward Classes (OBCs)…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: Dalit union leaders, activists protest against arrest of Chandrababu Naidu
Srikakulam: Dalit union leaders, activists and supporters organized a rally on Saturday in Amadalavalasa town of Srikakulam district against the “illegal” arrest of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu. They paid floral tributes…
- India
MP: Group of men beat up Dalit, urinate on him in Bhopal
Bhopal: A group of people allegedly beat up a Dalit man and urinated on him in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal. The man told the police that when he regained consciousness, he found…
- India
Students of TN govt school refuse free breakfast cooked by Dalit
Chennai: The free breakfast scheme launched by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin amid much fanfare hit a roadblock in Karur with parents disallowing their children to have breakfast prepared by a…
- Telangana
Telangana: 4 held for torturing Dalit man, teen for ‘stealing’ goat
Hyderabad: Four people were arrested for torturing a 30-year-old Dalit man and a 19-year-old boy who according to them stole a goat at Yapal village near Mandamarri town of Mancherial district. The…