Tuesday, November 2, 2010

[ZESTCaste] No SC contestant for 5 yrs, village gets Thakur as head

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/No-SC-contestant-for-5-yrs--village-gets-Thakur-as-head/704669

No SC contestant for 5 yrs, village gets Thakur as head

Kautilya Singh Posted online: Sat Oct 30 2010, 01:08 hrs
Kanpur : After five years, Malasa, a Thakur-dominated village in UP's
Ramabai Nagar district, has finally got a gram pradhan — a Thakur.
Since August 2005, when the state reserved the pradhan's post for
Scheduled Caste — the village had been without a panchayat or a
pradhan. No one contested the election in 2005 and the subsequent
by-elections that were rescheduled eight times.

This time, the pradhan's seat was dereserved and as many as eight
candidates, all Thakurs, filed nominations.

In the results declared on Thursday, Ashish Singh defeated Raghuveer
Singh by a margin of 510 votes.

Ashish Singh said: "If no Dalit contested in the last five years, it
was no fault of other villagers. On several occasions, senior Thakur
residents had asked Dalits to file nomination, but they could not
muster the courage."


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