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Congress looks to corner Mayawati on dalit front
Subodh Ghildiyal, TNN, Dec 25, 2010, 02.13am IST
NEW DELHI: THE `Mayawati vs Congress' war for dalit patronage in UP is
set to escalate. The National Commission for SCs is planning to
project the state's refusal to send its minister to its review meeting
as evidence of the CM putting politics before welfare, and may use
cases of atrocities against SCs in the state to back its charge of
indifference.
Days after UP said the NCSC review in Lucknow would only be attended
by officials and not the minister, the national panel has decided to
go ahead with the meeting.
The state had argued that Article 338 of the Constitution does not say
that NCSC's monitoring meetings have to be attended by state
ministers.
NCSC chairman P L Punia on Friday retaliated by saying that presence
of cabinet ministers lends seriousness to the review and sensitises
the state apparatus to its importance.
"The Constitution lays down the mandate of NCSC and does not specify
nitty gritties of who should attend our meetings. But we are
interested in SC welfare and not politics. We will hold the review
with officials," he said.
With UP's decision to bar its minister from the review being linked to
Mayawati's aversion for Punia, NCSC may use the cases of atrocities in
the state to show that SCs were not safe even under a dalit CM. The
macabre burning of two dalit sisters in Moradabad could turn the
trigger.
NCSC has found the UP administration culpable for not acting on
threats to save the sisters who were burnt alive last week. The
commission may summon district officials.
The fact-finding team's report could again start a war of words
between the dalit czarina and the NCSC headed by Congress MP and her
aide-turned-rival Punia.
Panel member Raju Parmar, after a fact-finding tour, has blamed the
state administration for the gruesome killings, rebuffing claims of
Moradabad officials that it was a case of suicide. He added that the
police did not act despite warnings for nine days.
Parmar said there was a gap of nine days between the murder of a
trader's wife and daughter, and the alleged retaliation of burning.
"There was tension and the family could easily have been evacuated,"
he said.
While calling the murder of the trader's family as "gruesome", he said
the police prematurely blamed the dalit girls' brothers on the basis
of a stray claim, ignoring the fact that they did not have a criminal
history nor was there evidence to back it. "The case should have been
probed properly. But this blaming led to tension and then they ignored
the threat to this dalit family," he said.
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