Were Dalits in temple just an act?
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Jait, May 15, 2010
First Published: 23:55 IST(15/5/2010)
Last Updated: 23:58 IST(15/5/2010)
Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Buta
Singh was in for a surprise when he visited Jait village.
Dalits were happily singing devotional songs inside a temple that
earlier didn't even allow them to enter.
Singh was on a fact-finding mission to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan's native village after HT published a report titled 'Temple
apartheid at Shivraj village' on May 6.
The report said Dalits were not allowed entry into the three temples
at the village in Sehore district, 100 km from Bhopal.
The turnaround seems to have happened after administrative and police
officers visited the village on Friday to enforce "law and order" in
preparation for Singh's visit.
Vaijantibai, who lives opposite the CM's ancestral house in Jait and
had earlier complained of discrimination, was sitting along with the
team of bhajan singers when Singh arrived. He was accompanied by
member of National Human Rights Commission Mahendra Boudh.
Vaijantibai promptly retracted her statement when Singh spoke to her.
"I have no problem here. No one stops us from entering the temples,"
she told Singh, and maintained her stand despite repeated questions by
Singh and Boudh.
Singh appears to have seen through the stage-managed act. "I am
surprised. The scene itself tells the whole story. I will submit my
report to the President."
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