Dalits stage huge protest against Vijaya Karnataka
Posted on Feb 6th, 2010 and filed under Local News.
MANGALORE : At a huge protest organized under the aegis of the
Federation of DK District SC ST associations in front of the DC office
in the city on Friday, Dalit leaders called upon the community to
boycott Vijaya Karnataka which was publishing defamatory and abusive
write-ups against Umeshchandra, lecturer in Mangalore University and
the Dalit community.
Earlier the Dalits took put a procession from the BR Ambedkar Circle
upto the Deputy Commissioner's office and later on even expressed
their anguish by burning copies of Vijaya Karnataka.
Senior advocate Dayanath Kotian who inaugurated the protest said
people who could not tolerate the progress registered by the Dalits in
various fields including education were harassing Dalits in different
ways and that the derogatory write-ups in Vijaya Karnataka was a part
of this agenda.
Noted thinker Deekayya who also spoke demanded that the Vijaya
Karnataka editor Vishweshwar Bhat be immediately arrested and
dismissed from his post and also that the doctorate proposed to be
conferred on him by Dharwad university be withheld.
The agitators have also warned to boycott all products of the
advertisers in Vijay Karnataka and also launch a campaign against the
Times Group if the demands were not met with.
Nirmal Kumar, President of the Federation of SC, ST Associations, said
the Dalits would continue their agitation if their demands were not
heeded to. Jayan Malpe, State organizing Convenor of the Dalita
Sangharsha Samithi Prakash Byadarahalli, State Organizing Convenor of
DSS (Ambedkar), Achyut S, Girish Kumar, SP Anand, Ganesh Nidle,
Rohitaksha K and other Dalit leaders took part in the agitation.
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