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[ZESTCaste] ‘Dalit icons not honoured, so BSP doing task’

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'Dalit icons not honoured, so BSP doing task'
Ayesha Arvind & Vandana Keelor, TNN | Oct 15, 2011, 04.13AM IST

NOIDA: Inaugurating Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden in sector 95
on Friday, Mayawati delivered a lengthy speech that was clearly aimed
at the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh early next year. The chief
minister spent a good 40 minutes addressing the audience, using every
opportunity to take on the Congress and all other opposition parties.
She even challenged the Congress at one point, claiming that
irrespective of whatever antics it employs ahead of the 2012 assembly
elections or the 2014 Vidhan Sabha elections, "not a single Dalit
vote, either from UP or from any part of the country will go to it."

Mayawati began her speech by justifying the need for the ostentatious
park though there were several similar memorials in Lucknow, claiming
that it was the Congress party's sheer neglect of Dalit leaders that
prompted her in the first place to commemorate them. "This memorial is
for the many Dalits who now live in the capital and also for the
people of western UP who can't visit Lucknow," she said.

"The western banks of the Yamuna in Delhi are dotted with statutes and
memorials dedicated to Gandhi and Nehru families but there is nothing
to honour the memories of Dalit leaders like B R Ambedkar and Kanshi
Ram in spite of the fact that the latter died in Delhi," she said.
"Hence, the BSP has taken it upon itself to do the needful."

Mayawati said that contrary to reports, she had spent only one per
cent of the state budget on her dream projects. A majority of the
funds, she said, were mobilized from donations, adding that even that
one per cent amount would be recovered through ticket fees.

The chief minister lashed out at the Congress for doing little for the
poor that, according to her, had forced thousands of residents of UP
to migrate to other cities. Dubbing the Congress as an "anti-Dalit"
party, Mayawati blamed the Centre for failing to introduce quotas for
Muslims and the poor from upper castes. She targeted Congress
president Sonia Gandhi, alleging she had not kept her promise in the
disproportionate assets case. "When the BJP government at the Centre
ordered a CBI raid in 2003 at my residence and at the houses of my
aides and relatives, at a time when our leader Kanshi Ram was battling
for his life in a Delhi hospital, Congress president Sonia Gandhi had
called me to assure that when the Congress returned to power I would
be granted justice. But from 2004 till date, nothing of that sort had
happened," Mayawati said. The CM also attacked the central government
for not taking any decision on Poorvanchal, Harit Pradesh and
Bundelkhand.

Then she turned her guns on the BJP. Alleging that the BJP was
misusing CBI to its advantage, Mayawati commented tongue-in-cheek that
L K Advani's rathyatra should have begun from Karnataka.

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[ZESTCaste] Cong hits back at Mayawati for misusing dalit card

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Cong hits back at Mayawati for misusing dalit card
Last Updated: Friday, October 14, 2011, 23:42

New Delhi: Congress on Friday hit back at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati accusing her of massive corruption by resorting to politics
of dalit votes.

Party General Secretary Digvijay Singh told reporters that the UP
Chief Minister is only involved in "self upliftment" while Congress
has strived for adivasis, dalits and weaker sections.

"Every prime property in Lucknow is that of Mayawati... What she does,
how she is acquiring these properties, she should tell us," Singh, a
critic of the UP Chief Minister, said.

Singh also made it clear that Congress has no intentions of replacing
Manmohan Singh from the prime ministerial post.

"Dr Manmohan Singh is an honest leader, the post is not vacant so
where is the question for another PM?" he asked.

The Congress leader said this in response to Mayawati's statement that
Congress could make either Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar or Union
Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde as Prime Minister to split the dalit vote
ahead of the UP polls.

Insisting that Mayawati has resorted to only wastage of money, he
alleged, "Government of India has given her Rs 2.5 lakh crores, but
she has spent all this in constructing parks, elephants and statues."

"It is squandering of the tax payers money, the hard earned money was
spent on constructing statues of her parents. If she wanted to do so
she should have spent her own money and not that of the exchequer," he
said.

PTI

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit memorial: Cong, BJP attack Maya for wasting public money

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Dalit memorial: Cong, BJP attack Maya for wasting public money
Agencies Posted online: Sat Oct 15 2011, 10:15 hrs
New Delhi : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today came under
severe attack from both the Congress and the BJP for wasting public
money worth crores in parks and statues.

While Congress said the hard earned money of the public was being
wasted by her in "constructing statues of her parents", the BJP said
the people of the state would raise their voice against this wasteful
expenditure and give her a befitting reply in the next Assembly
elections.

"It is squandering of the tax payers money, the hard earned money was
spent on constructing statues of her parents. If she wanted to do so
she should have spent her own money and not that of the exchequer,"
Congress leader Digvijay Singh said.

He added that Mayawati has resorted to wastage of money, as
"Government of India has given her Rs 2.50 lakh crores but she has
spent all this in constructing parks, elephants and statues."

On the other hand, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said the people of the
state will surely give a befitting reply to her in the forthcoming
polls for "misuse" of public money.

"In democracy, if you say that you can spend the money as per your
wishes, the people of the country will certainly raise their voice
somewhere. I think the people of the state will surely give a
befitting reply to Mayawati in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh polls,"
Rudy said.

He also wondered how this Rs 650 crore splurge is being done in
violation of the Supreme Court directions. He said that thousands of
crores splurged on parks belonged to the people of Uttar Pradesh.

"We are very amused that the system could hoodwink the highest court
of the land to undertake this splurge. We still wonder how it
happened. At the end of the day it is public money. The government has
lost all accountability."

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit candidates threaten to withdraw from contest

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/article2538078.ece

MADURAI, October 15, 2011
Dalit candidates threaten to withdraw from contest
D. Karthikeyan

The four candidates who are contesting for the Keeripatti panchayat
president post. (from left) B.Chinnasamy, P. Palani, N. Subban and
A.Subban.
Photo: G. Moorthy The four candidates who are contesting for the
Keeripatti panchayat president post. (from left) B.Chinnasamy, P.
Palani, N. Subban and A.Subban.

Four candidates who are contesting for the post of panchayat president
in Keeripatti coming under Usilampatti taluk have threatened to
withdraw from the contest alleging undemocratic practices followed by
caste Hindus in the village.

Keeripatti is one among the four reserved panchayats, the others being
Pappapatti and Nattarmangalam in Madurai district and Kottakachiendal
in Virudhunagar district, which saw severe opposition from the
dominant castes to conduct elections, and when held the Dalits were
asked to resign, thus making a mockery of democracy.

However, concerted efforts during the previous DMK government saw the
restoration of a democratic setup in these panchayats.

The Hindu carried a news item on September 29 stating that the
situation is dicey in Keeripatti after dominant caste members called
for an 'oor (village) panchayat' (an assembly of elders, wealthy and
influential persons, mostly belonging to the predominant caste group)
and chose A. Mokkakaalai (33), a conservancy worker, as candidate.
For lineage god

This being the situation, on Friday, they again called for an 'oor
panchayat' meeting for which Mokkakaalai, the candidate chosen by the
Piramalai Kallars, was seen beating the 'thamukku' (traditional drum)
to announce the meeting.

The villagers said that the meeting which took place from 6.30 a.m.
till 7.00 a.m. saw the Piramalai Kallars make promises and take vows
on flames of camphor to their lineage god Vangaru Thevar Samy that
they will not vote for others but only Mokkakaalai.

It was also said that people who voted for others would be ostracised
from the village. The Dalit candidate Mokkakalai fielded by the
Kallars have been assured of three sovereigns of gold and Rs.1 lakh in
cash if he wins the election.

The Dalit candidates, B. Chinnasamy (35), N. Subban (50), P. Palani
(41) and A. Subban (55), told The Hindu that the administration was
biased towards caste Hindus. Higher officials, including the Collector
and Revenue Divisional Officer, did not visit the Dalit areas in the
village to hear their grievances but only met the caste Hindus.

They also alleged that the policemen who accompanied the candidate, M.
Baluchamy, during the campaign were the kinsmen of villagers and it
was nothing but mere tokenism on the part of the administration. The
other Dalit candidates have not been able to campaign at the caste
Hindu areas.

"Once the election is over, we all could be under threat as there is a
precedence of the entire village ostracising Dalits who disobey the
prevailing practices," said A. Subban. They urged the State Election
Commission (SEC) to either postpone the elections or ensure proper
security and allow them to campaign and conduct the elections in a
democratic manner.

A. Kathir, Executive Director, Evidence, said that there was no doubt
that there existed a kind of uncertainty in Keeripatti over the
realisation of empowerment of Dalits, which was one of the declared
objectives of decentralisation of power. The SEC should take stringent
measures to restore democracy in its fullest form.

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[ZESTCaste] Spare schools from strike: MRPS

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Spare schools from strike: MRPS
TNN | Oct 15, 2011, 06.32AM IST

HYDERABAD: Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti chief Manda Krishna Madiga
on Friday threatened to go an indefinite fast demanding exemption to
government schools and colleges from the strike as students from the
weaker sections were suffering the most.

Addressing a dharna at Indira Park, he questioned the wisdome of TRS
and political JAC in forcing only government schools and colleges to
close when private and corporate colleges continued with their
classes. He urged people to see the clandestine understanding between
TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, the liquor mafia and the movie
industry. "Is there any logic in closing down government schools, when
cinema halls and liquor shops are allowed to function freely? These
two sectors fetch government a lot of revenue. KCR and Kodandaram must
come out with answers to these questions. The poor students in
government schools are not only being deprived of their mid-day meals,
but education. It is strange that the school in which KCR's grandson
studies is not closed during the Sakala Janula Samme, but all other
schools that have a state syllabus (SSC) are being asked to close," he
pointed out.

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[ZESTCaste] ‘Dalit icons not honoured, so BSP doing task’

[ZESTCaste] Cong hits back at Mayawati for misusing dalit card

[ZESTCaste] Dalit memorial: Cong, BJP attack Maya for wasting public money

[ZESTCaste] Dalit candidates threaten to withdraw from contest

[ZESTCaste] Spare schools from strike: MRPS

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