Monday, December 21, 2009

[ZESTCaste] Rahul Gandhi may spend night in Dalit home again

 

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Rahul-may-spend-night-in-Dalit-home-again/H1-Article1-488884.aspx

Indo-Asian News Service
Jhansi , December 21, 2009

First Published: 14:47 IST(21/12/2009)
Last Updated: 14:50 IST(21/12/2009)

Rahul Gandhi may spend night in Dalit home again

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is likely to spend yet another
night in a Dalit's home in Jhansi district, party sources said on
Monday.

The Congress MP, who is scheduled to arrive in Jhansi later Monday by
a chartered plane, will go straight to Ghisauli village, barely 10 km
from this city in the backward Bundelkhand region, the sources said.

He is to attend a programme organised by a local NGO engaged in
welfare and economic upliftment of Dalits in the area.

Details of his programme were being kept secret "for security
reasons", the source added. However, it is learnt that he would spend
the night in a Dalit home in a particular village of the area.

Rahul's visit is significant as it is his first after he pushed a
special development package of Rs.7,000 crore for the Bundelkhand
region.

But what is equally significant is that the trip coincides with the
commencement of the first major movement for the long-pending demand
for statehood to Bundelkhand.

Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha chief Raja Bundela had December 16 launched a
300-km march to press for the people's demand for an independent state
of Bundelkhand.

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