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Dalit Manch lays siege to DAC, burns effigy
Express News Service Posted online: Mon Jun 21 2010, 03:47 hrs
Mohali : Hundreds of Dalits, under the banner of Punjab Dalit Chetna
Manch, laid siege to the District Administrative Complex (DAC) and
burnt the effigy of the district administration for its alleged
anti-Dalit approach.
Some protesters tried self-immolation, while some youngsters climbed
up the rooftop of the DAC threatening to jump, but heavy police force,
led by SP (City) Sukhwant Singh Gill and DSP (City-II) Swarandeep
Singh managed to persuade the protesters from taking any drastic
steps.
The protesters continued to squat in the middle of the road in front
of the DAC, Phase I, for three hours and rented the air with slogans
against the district administration and state government. SSP Gurpreet
Singh Bhullar asked the Manch president Shamsher Singh to withdraw the
protest while assuring to sort out the issue within three days.
The protest was staged against the attack on some Dalits, allegedly by
some upper caste people at Tasauli village in Mohali district on May
28. Later some Dalit families were allegedly ousted from the village
but no complaint has been registered by the police so far, alleged
manch president.
Earlier, the protesters gathered at the Manch office in Sector 70
here, from where they marched towards the DAC. Holding black flags,
banners, posters and placards with anti-administration and
anti-government slogans, the protesters shouted the slogans against
the anti-Dalit forces.
Manch president threatened to intensify the protest if the matter was
not sorted out within next three days.
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