[ZESTCaste] Atrocities against Dalits on rise in NDA rule: RJD

 

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Atrocities against Dalits on rise in NDA rule: RJD
Updated on Sunday, April 17, 2011, 21:35

Patna: The opposition RJD on Sunday slammed the NDA government for the
alleged rise in attacks on dalits in Bihar citing the recent report of
arson at Harchanda village in Darbhanga district as the latest
instance.

"The dalits are being attacked and traumatised by influential people
right under the nose of the NDA government," RJD Chief General
Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Ram Kripal Yadav told reporters here
after returning from Harchanda village.

The dalits of Harchanda village were living in constant fear of those
people who torched their houses a fews days ago and broke the statute
of the dalit icon B R Ambedkar and vandalised a temple, he said.

The police have not arrested the real perpetrators even though the
number of dalits, arrested and booked under various provisions of the
law was high, Yadav said.

State RJD President Ramchandra Purve has demanded a compensation of
Rs. five lakh each to the aggrieved dalit families and adequate
security to them, besides repair of damaged Ambedkar's statute and
dalit's temple, besides the arrest of attackers and their time-bound
prosecution.

The RJD will launch a statewide agitation soon if the state government
failed to accept their demands, he said.

PTI

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