All parties out to woo Dalit deras in Doaba
Rajeev Bhaskar, Hindustan Times
Jalandhar, December 06, 2011
With an eye on the Dalit vote bank, especially in the Doaba region,
almost all political parties have deputed senior leaders to liaison
with dera heads ahead of the assembly elections due early next year.
Dalits constitute 34% of the electorate in Doaba region comprising Jalandhar,
Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala districts.
Punjab has around 500 deras (religious groups) of Dalit communities, a
majority of them in Doaba.
Leaders of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party
alliance (SAD-BJP) as well as Congress, BSP and People's Party of
Punjab (PPP) are in touch with these deras.
Congress has deputed Dalit leaders Choudhary Jagjit Singh and local MP
Mohinder Singh Kaypee for talks with the head of Dera Sachkhand,
Ballan.
SAD-BJP has chosen Dalit leaders Avinash Chander (MLA) and Pawan Kumar
Tinu to solicit support of Dera Babe Jaure.
On Monday, Punjab deputy chief minister and SAD president Sukhbir
Badal had visited the Jat community-dominated Dera Kahna Dhesian, near
Goraya, where head Surinder Singh Babla declared support for the
party.
According to sources in BJP, Punjab SC-ST Commission chairman Rajesh
Bagha is a key leader for the party in the talks with the deras.
BSP, which earlier used to claim undisputed support of Dalit deras,
has also constituted a team to woo them over.
PPP president Manpreet Badal visited Dera Sacha Sauda in Sirsa
recently. The dera, has a large following in the Malwa region.
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