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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Re: [ZESTCaste] Mayawati rides on hope, Kanshi Ram’s name

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Dear All,

Elections are due in UP from 8th Feb. 2012. As you know the media / centre govt / election commission will always present only incorrect negative news repeatedly about UP govt and Mayawati to defame her.

Now in this technology world let's present to whole world correct and positive news about UP govt and Mayawati which may assist BSP to win more seats.

As a part of your responsibility, please try to do two below things by spending about 10min daily from today till the elections are over.
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1) Open various news items about Mayawati & BSP from Google news search and put your comparative positive comment on the  news.

2) Vote to Mayawati in various news papers online survey.
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If you notice now days there are many people writing comments on news articles, which mean many people read these news and they do write comments as well. So let's have comments from our side as well.

If all well wisher of BSP writes their positive comparative comments, then it will surely put real storey about UP and Mayawati to the world.

Please send this email to maximum people without losing any time as 6th Feb. 2012 is very near.

FYI - I have written few below comparative points about BSP govt;

1) UP is now one of the fast developing states in all aspects like education / infrastructure / water / roads etc. Congress could not do this in last 40 years of their rule. BJP demolished Babari. SP promoted goondaraj.
2) Controlled crime and created safe environment.
3) Created various new districts which helped developing the local area.
4) Proposed divisions of state into smaller states for better development
5) Given full respect to great national social leaders by creating their parks and institutes.
6) Sacked ministers who are indicated by Lokayukta in corruption.
7) Rejected FDI in retails to protect small shop owners.
8) Mayawati is the only CM who is going to serve full 5 years with stable govt.

There are many more developments which media will never tell, so local UP people will need to play vital role for spreading correct news.

Let's keep our land in our hands.

Yours in mission.

Rgds..dhiraj

randhir gill (mirzapur)
57 mins ago (02:31 PM)
Dear, Mam i am really happy because you are my state CM.I live in mirzapur,near by allahabad.Youare such great CM.I pray only CM in my country.
Vijay (Chennai)
6 hrs ago (08:48 AM)
Behenji, EC is covering our statues and symbols across UP. Next time we should make EC to do the same across India. Jai Bhim...Jai Kanshiram...Jai Behenji...
Jagatheesan Chandrasekharan (Bangalore)
7 hrs ago (07:57 AM)
Ms Mayawati of BSP will win 303 seats, since BSP is a movement for social transformation and Economic Emancipation. BY GIVING MASTERKEY! TO MAYAWATI! OF BSP! By Broad minded Entire Uttar Pradesh People will give her seats Three Hundred and Three!
sandeep sharma (Mohali)
18 Jan, 2012 01:47 PM
Atleast better than Mulayam.Done development in Noida,Lko.
Sparrow (DC)
18 Jan, 2012 07:59 AM
She is the only strong Sarvajan leader to protect minorities against the caste / feudal system in UP.She has learned her lessons and shall give better govt.
rahul (delhi)
17 Jan, 2012 04:04 PM
Great leader
Prashant (Australia)
15 Jan, 2012 06:25 PM
I am 100% with u that u have done enough for SC, OBC and all other castes that everyone in India should be proud to have your statue in every state of India. I honestly salute you and want to meet you once personally in my life. May God give u long life and after you will be remembered as GOD itself.
ROSHAN (Faridabad)
14 Jan, 2012 02:54 PM
NOW ITS  FOURTH  SHE HAS COMPLETED.  AGAIN THIS TIME SHE COULD TAKE OATH FOR CM POST INDEPENDENTLY LIKE 2007. COZ TODAY NO FACE IS TRUSTABLE IN UP, THAT'S WHY PUBLIC HAD NO FEEL & HESITATION TO BRING HER AGAIN.
Nitesh Thakur (Delhi)
12 Jan, 2012 02:27 PM
great
A Sarvajan  icon
neeraj upadhyay (noida)
12 Jan, 2012 02:18 PM
Haathi mere sathi.. :)
qrst (Delhi)
12 Jan, 2012 11:05 AM
I wish you come to power again.
Right
nice

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Subject: [ZESTCaste] Mayawati rides on hope, Kanshi Ram's name

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Specials/Coverage/Assembly-Elections-2012/Chunk-HT-UI-AssemblyElections2012-UP-TopStories/Mayawati-rides-on-hope-Kanshi-Ram-s-name/SP-Article10-800484.aspx

Mayawati rides on hope, Kanshi Ram's name
HT Correspondents, Hindustan Times
Kharar/Nawanshahr, January 21, 2012

A BSP supporter seeks UP CM Mayawati's blessings at an event to
celebrate her 56th birthday in Lucknow. HT Photo/Vinay Pandey
Invoking the memory of her political mentor, the late Kanshi Ram,
Mayawati on Saturday called upon people to vote for her party in the
January 30 Punjab assembly polls. "It was Babu Kanshi Ram's wish that
our party rules Punjab," the BSP chief said at a rally at Kharar in
Mohali district.
"We fulfilled his desire four times in Uttar Pradesh."

Though Punjab was the home state of BSP founder Kanshi Ram and has a
29% SC population — the highest among all states — the party drew a
blank here in the 2002 and 2007 polls.

It may not be easy going for the party this time too, with the BSP
rejecting an offer of alliance with the People's Party of Punjab
(PPP)-led Sanjha Morcha. The party is going it alone in all 117
constituencies.

In the 1996 Lok Sabha polls, the BSP got three seats in alliance with the SAD.

The party had nine MLAs — its highest-ever tally — in the Punjab
assembly during 1992-1997 (the SAD had boycotted the 1992 assembly
polls).

Mayawati, however, claimed on Saturday that the Congress and SAD-BJP
faced dissidence and a split in their votes would benefit the BSP.

'This is a golden opportunity to attain power in Punjab," she said.
"No party — Congress, BJP or any other — in the state have delivered
the goods to the sarva samaj (common masses)."

At another rally in Nawanshahr town, Mayawati said while other parties
wooed Dalits after Independence through "hollow promises", the BSP
government in UP initiated several schemes in education, employment,
health and welfare not just for Dalits but for "all downtrodden
sections".

Targeting the Congress, she attacked the UPA for not doing enough to
curb "price rise".

She said the Centre's "wrong policies" had adversely affected the common man.

Countering Congress allegations that her recent sacking of ministers
was an act of desperation, she said, "We have ensured our party
candidates have a clean image and are working for the development of
people."

She said the EC's move to cover elephant statues in UP and the media
coverage of the issue had only heightened the popularity of the BSP's
poll symbol.

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[ZESTCaste] Ambedkar was the centric leader while Gandhi echoed all : M J Akbar

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Ambedkar was the centric leader while Gandhi echoed all : M J Akbar

Jaipur : With literary heads ranging from New yorker to Mumbai and
discussing the world wide issues, today in the morning session of at
Diggi Palace front lawns, Ambedkar and Gandhi were remembered with the
huge comparison with the latest Anna Hazare and Irom Sharmila. The
session was named as the "Gandhi, Ambedkar and the crossroads at
Jantar Mantar". The speakers of the session were Joseph Lelyveld,
Sunil Khilnani, Aruna Roy, S Anand and MJ Akbar it was moderated by
Urvashi Butalia.

Speaking about then and now, the yesteryear's and the new and the old
protests the writers showcased their views about the Gandhian
philosophy and Ambedkar views. The comparison which draw between the
two leaders was being a mass object and a state centric. Aruna Roy,
social activist and a writer said, Anna protest was popular than Irom
Sharmila not only because of being held at the cross roads of Jantar
Mantar but the India protested against corruption.

Calling corruption a major menace all the writers stood and said the
views should be echoed and the writers have the right to criticize. MJ
Akbar talked about the contribution of Gandhi in making the Indians
powerful. Prasoon Joshi stressed on being poetic in each way one can.
He also said that the poetic streak should come into political
boundaries. talking about the dalit issue Urvashi said " The more one
writes about it the issue gets highlighted".

Later MJ Akbar while trying to draw a thin line comparison between the
two leaders he said that the two cannot be compared. Both have their
idealistic views and opinions.

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[ZESTCaste] "Difficult, yet accommodating ties between Gandhiji and Ambedkar"

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article2820401.ece

Jaipur, January 21, 2012
"Difficult, yet accommodating ties between Gandhiji and Ambedkar"
Mohammed Iqbal

A panel discussion at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday on
the legacies and forms of mass mobilisation adopted by Mahatma Gandhi
and B.R. Ambedkar during the freedom movement threw a new light on the
"difficult, yet accommodating" relationship between the two leaders
described in different manners by different historians. Speakers also
defined the notion of trusteeship from the perspective of rights in
modern democracy.

Historian Sunil Khilnani, social activist Aruna Roy, journalist M.J.
Akbar and authors Joseph Lelyveld and S. Anand addressed the session
on "Gandhi, Ambedkar and the crossroads at Jantar Mantar" moderated by
feminist Urvashi Butalia.

The discussion centred on the relevance of protest methods of Gandhiji
and Dr. Ambedkar in the contemporary politics with activists like Anna
Hazare being compared to Gandhiji in his fight against corruption.
Jantar Mantar in New Delhi has been used of late as a rallying point
for hunger fasts and mass gatherings.

Speakers said while Gandhiji had used non-violent protests to appeal
to the "sense of morality" of the oppressor, Dr. Ambedkar believed
more in taking recourse to law for fighting oppression against Dalits.
There were some points of convergence between the two great leaders
after the signing of the Poona Pact at Yerawada Jail in 1932.

While Gandhiji made all-out efforts to eradicate untouchability in the
Hindu society, he had to balance several causes he was pursuing during
the freedom struggle. In contrast, Dr. Ambedkar had a single cause for
devoting his entire energy, said Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph
Lelyveld.

Mr. Lelyveld, author of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle
with India released in 2011, said there were several months of
cohesion between Dr. Ambedkar and Gandhiji after the Poona Pact, but
the latter was rather dissatisfied towards the end by the way
Independence was achieved for the country.

"Gandhiji's own experiments did not often work out to his own
satisfaction. In his view, his initiatives for Hindu-Muslim amity,
abolition of untouchability and establishment of a just social order
did not quite work brilliantly," said Mr. Lelyveld, whose book has
been banned in Mahatma Gandhi's home State Gujarat.

"I am a survivor of a fatwa from the great Gandhian Chief Minister of
Gujarat who banned my book," said the celebrated author, taking a dig
at Narendra Modi.

Ms. Aruna Roy said septuagenarian activist Anna Hazare's
anti-corruption campaign was not inclusive in character because it
ostracised Dalits, and the people who joined it had little sympathy
for the similar ongoing struggles, such as Irom Sharmila's indefinite
fast against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur.

"In fact, the middle class of Indians who joined Anna Hazare's drive
wants unfettered powers to the security forces and military rule in
Jammu and Kashmir and in northeastern States. Inconsistencies are
[inherent] in such a movement," said Ms. Roy, who had dissociated
herself with Mr. Hazare's core team following differences over the
Lokpal Bill draft.

The Magsaysay Award winner said the concept of trusteeship popular
during the freedom struggle had been replaced by "social contract" in
modern democracy with the citizens expecting certain rights from the
State. When public ethics were not complied with, civil rights
movements take shape, she added.

Mr. Akbar said Gandhiji had understood the power of "silent cruelty"
when he adopted the end of discrimination against Dalits as the focal
point of his social movement. With an identical significance, Dr.
Ambedkar should be credited for adoption of the Hindu Code Bill just
after Independence, which brought a great social reform in the Hindu
society.

Mr. Anand said that despite the largest-ever conversion into Buddhism
in 1956, Dalits had rarely launched a movement against the state since
Independence and had reserved their rage for the so-called higher
castes. This approach, he felt, had genesis in Dr. Ambedkar taking a
legalistic view in most of the Dalit issues.

Confidence in law

Mr. Khilnani said Dr. Ambedkar had put a greater confidence in the
impartiality of law than Gandhiji, who devised most of his protests in
a way that embarrassed the British and compelled them to act
differently. "The notion of political representation [also] got
different shapes among the followers of the two leaders."

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit rape: Polygraph test on prime accused

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Dalit-rape-Polygraph-test-on-prime-accused/articleshow/11581098.cms

Dalit rape: Polygraph test on prime accused
PTI | Jan 21, 2012, 09.04PM IST

BHUBANESWAR: Crime Branch today conducted a polygraph test on the main
accused in the sensational rape and attempt to murder case of a Dalit
girl even as the Odisha government provided financial assistance of Rs
75,000 to the victim's family.

"Polygraph test has been conducted at the State Forensic Science
Laboratory in Bhubaneswar with due permission of the court," said
Crime Branch DSP Ramesh Sethy, adding that Prasanta Pradhan was sent
to judicial custody after the test.

Though a total of four persons had been arrested for the crime that
took place on November 28 last year, the probe agency chose Prasanta
Pradhan for the lie detection test, the official said. Pradhan was in
police custody for five days twice.

The Crime Branch conducted the polygraph test on Pradhan as it has to
submit a status report on the investigation into the matter at the
High Court on January 25.

In another development, District Welfare Officer, Puri, Kali Prasad
Das visited SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack and handed over
two cheques worth Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000 to Amulya Behera, the
brother of the victim.

Meanwhile, the hospital authorities today started music therapy for
the victim whose brain cell are dormant after the November 2011
incident, hospital superintendent D N Moharana said.

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[ZESTCaste] Flying dreams of dalit girls grounded

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/flying-dreams-dalit-girls-grounded-761

Flying dreams of dalit girls grounded

January 22, 2012
By Kavitha Muralidharan
DC
chennai

Around 100 dalit girls had joined an academy to train as airhostesses
under a government scheme launched in 2006, but soon found their
dreams dashed.

Now TN has stepped in by refusing to pay the academy in full on the
grounds that it has not "fulfilled its contractual obligations" of
finding the girls jobs after the training.

The government intervened as it is mandatory for any organisation
entering into a contract with the Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housing and
Development Corporation (TAHDCO) to find 50 per cent of its candidates
placements at the end of the training.

"Usually 50 per cent of the payment is made when signing the contract
and the rest after the contractual obligations are fulfilled," say
official sources.

The sources revealed that the academy too received 70 per cent of its
payment in advance, but can claim the rest only after it fulfills its
contractual obligations.

The scheme, launched with much fanfare by the previous DMK government
, was meant to provide training to 100 Dalit girls every year at an
expenditure of Rs 1 crore.

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[ZESTCaste] Pipili gangrape: Parties, bodies gang up on CM

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pipili-gangrape-parties-bodies-gang-up-on-cm/223112-60-117.html

Orissa | Posted on Jan 22, 2012 at 10:35am IST
Pipili gangrape: Parties, bodies gang up on CM
indianexpress Express News Service , The New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: The agitation over Pipili gangrape demanding the
resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is intensifying with
political parties, women organisations, tribal and Dalit bodies
holding demonstrations across the State.

�Around 13 non-BJD parties and mass organisations held a demonstration
here on Saturday.

�Former Union ministers Braja Kishore Tripathy and Bhajaman Behera,
president of the Samruddha Odisha Jatish Mohanty, president of the
Odisha Communist Party Ajeya Rout, RJD State president Harish
Mohapatra, leaders of several other parties and organisations took out
a procession and submitted a memorandum, addressed to the President,
to Governor MC Bhandare demanding a CBI probe.

�"We have submitted a memorandum to the President seeking her
intervention," said Bhajaman. The agitators, mostly women, shouted
anti-Naveen slogans.

�They also demanded a special mechanism to deal with rape cases as the
State has been witnessing about 1,000 such crimes every year. BJP
national executive member Bijay Mohapatra pilloried Naveen for not
visiting the Dalit victim being treated at SCB Medical College and
Hospital despite being in Cuttack on Saturday.

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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati rides on hope, Kanshi Ram’s name

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Specials/Coverage/Assembly-Elections-2012/Chunk-HT-UI-AssemblyElections2012-UP-TopStories/Mayawati-rides-on-hope-Kanshi-Ram-s-name/SP-Article10-800484.aspx

Mayawati rides on hope, Kanshi Ram's name
HT Correspondents, Hindustan Times
Kharar/Nawanshahr, January 21, 2012

A BSP supporter seeks UP CM Mayawati's blessings at an event to
celebrate her 56th birthday in Lucknow. HT Photo/Vinay Pandey
Invoking the memory of her political mentor, the late Kanshi Ram,
Mayawati on Saturday called upon people to vote for her party in the
January 30 Punjab assembly polls. "It was Babu Kanshi Ram's wish that
our party rules Punjab," the BSP chief said at a rally at Kharar in
Mohali district.
"We fulfilled his desire four times in Uttar Pradesh."

Though Punjab was the home state of BSP founder Kanshi Ram and has a
29% SC population — the highest among all states — the party drew a
blank here in the 2002 and 2007 polls.

It may not be easy going for the party this time too, with the BSP
rejecting an offer of alliance with the People's Party of Punjab
(PPP)-led Sanjha Morcha. The party is going it alone in all 117
constituencies.

In the 1996 Lok Sabha polls, the BSP got three seats in alliance with the SAD.

The party had nine MLAs — its highest-ever tally — in the Punjab
assembly during 1992-1997 (the SAD had boycotted the 1992 assembly
polls).

Mayawati, however, claimed on Saturday that the Congress and SAD-BJP
faced dissidence and a split in their votes would benefit the BSP.

'This is a golden opportunity to attain power in Punjab," she said.
"No party — Congress, BJP or any other — in the state have delivered
the goods to the sarva samaj (common masses)."

At another rally in Nawanshahr town, Mayawati said while other parties
wooed Dalits after Independence through "hollow promises", the BSP
government in UP initiated several schemes in education, employment,
health and welfare not just for Dalits but for "all downtrodden
sections".

Targeting the Congress, she attacked the UPA for not doing enough to
curb "price rise".

She said the Centre's "wrong policies" had adversely affected the common man.

Countering Congress allegations that her recent sacking of ministers
was an act of desperation, she said, "We have ensured our party
candidates have a clean image and are working for the development of
people."

She said the EC's move to cover elephant statues in UP and the media
coverage of the issue had only heightened the popularity of the BSP's
poll symbol.

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[ZESTCaste] If there is a line that divides classes in India, it’s English: Tarun Tejpal

http://www.firstpost.com/living/if-there-is-a-line-that-divides-classes-in-india-its-english-tarun-tejpal-189556.html

If there is a line that divides classes in India, it's English: Tarun Tejpal

Jan 21, 2012

By Lakshmi Chaudhry and Sandip Roy

Editor's note: The Jaipur Literature Festival, widely acknowledged as
India's premier literary festival got underway at the Diggi Palace on
Friday. The festival made headlines well ahead of its inauguration
largely due to the furore over Salman Rushdie's proposed visit.
However the festival also features a star studded line-up with notable
names such as David Remnik, Ben Okri, Deepak Chopra and Nilanjana Roy.

The panel is titled Inglish, Amlish, Hinglish: The Chutneyfication of
English. It has Gurcharan Das , Tarun Tejpal, Rita Kothari on the
panel. The sesssion is moderated by Ira Pande.

In a twenty-eight-year career as a journalist, Tarun Tejpal is the
founder of Tehelka, which has garnered international fame for its
aggressive public interest journalism. His debut novel, The Alchemy of
Desire, was hailed by the Sunday Times as "an impressive and memorable
debut". His second novel, The Story of My Assassins, was published in
2009 to rave reviews. His latest book,The Valley of Masks, has been
longlisted for the Man Booker Asia Prize.

Gurcharan Das is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the
Subtle Art of Dharma. His past works include, India Unbound, A Fine
Family (a novel); The Elephant Paradigm; and an anthology, Three
English Plays. He studied philosophy at Harvard University, and was
CEO Procter & Gamble India before he took early retirement to become a
writer.

Rita Kothari is author of Translating India: The Cultural Politics of
English, The Burden of Refuge: Sindh, Gujarat, Partition, andMemories
and Movements: Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch,
Gujarat(forthcoming). She has translated the Gujarati Dalit novel,
Angaliyat:The Stepchild, and Speech and Silence: Literary Journeys
byGujarati Women, Unbordered Memories : Partition Stories from Sindh,
and is co-translator ofModern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection, and Coral
Island: The Poetry of Niranjan Bhagat.

Tarun Tejpal says problem with writing in English is that language is
not created to carry reality of India. AFP

Ira Pande's memoir of her mother, the famous Hindi writer Shivani,
published by Penguin-India in 2005, was shortlisted in the best
non-fiction category of the Crossword-Vodafone award in 2006. She has
also translated Manohar Shyam Joshi's Hindi novella, T-ta Professor,
which was awarded both the Crossword-Vodafone award and the Sahitya
Akademi award for the best translated work into English for 2010.

3: 45 pm Tarun Tejpal says problem with writing in English is that
language is not created to carry reality of India. English is a
language of irony, understatement, cool. The reality in India is
opposite — it's melodramatic and noisy. In that sense Indian cinema is
far more in sync with the reality of India.

Gurcharan Das disagrees with Tejpal. He says that previous generation
was devastated by not knowing English well enough. The new generation
does not care how they speak. He narrates the story of a low caste
boy Raju who tells him the secret of life. "First learn Windows. Then
400 words of English. Enough to pass TOEFL." The average Indian is
Raju, says Das. "He does not care how he speaks. English is going down
socio-economic ladder. We need to produce a Shakespeare of Hinglish.
And that is not Midnight's Children. Rushdie liberated Indian
literature but it is not Hinglish."

Tejpal says, "Too many Rajus were devastated by not knowing English."
He says English remains an aspirational language. According to Tejpal
ambivalence towards English is lessening because it is seen as
language of success. He feels that explains why writers who write in
English get 50 times the advance than those who don't and not
necessarily because they are better writers.

Rushdie was supposed to be on this panel. He coined the term
chutneyfication. But his spirit hovers over the panel. The panelists
all refer to him. Tejpal says his (Rushdie's) later books are more of
caricature because when you live so far from sound of street it is
hard to replicate, unlike Midnight where his memories of growing up in
Bombay served him well.

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[ZESTCaste] Maldives: Police to protect boadcasting stations

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Police to protect boadcasting stations
Fazeena Ahmed, Haveeru Online
Jan 22, 2012 - 12:33

The building, which currently houses the channel One operated by
Maldives National Broadcasting Corporation (MNBC): MBC has requested
police protection for broadcasting stations, media and jounalists.
HAVEERU FILE PHOTO

Maldives Broadcasting Commission (MBC) has requested police protection
for broadcasting stations, media equipment and journalists.

The MBC expressed concern for the attacks on journalists and the media
following the recent political unrest in Male'.

President of MBC Badhuruh Naseer said the matter was discussed
directly with the police commissioner by phone and an official letter
had also been submitted to the police regarding the matter.

In the press release by the commission, Badhuru said that the attacks
and threats to the freedom of the media cannot be tolerated, and that
journalistic freedom is a right stipulated in very broad terms under
article 28 of the constitution.

The commission had also previously condemned the attacks on Maldives
National Broadcasting Corporation journalists and property during the
recent anti-government protests.

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[ZESTCaste] Andhra Pradesh Dalits to protest sacking of textile minister

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/andhra-pradesh-dalits-protest-sacking-dr-p-shankar-rao/1/170072.html

A. Srinivasa Rao Hyderabad, January 22, 2012 | UPDATED 15:45 IST
Andhra Pradesh Dalits to protest sacking of textile minister

Dalit groups in Andhra Pradesh are up in arms against the ruling
Congress party over what they termed as "unceremonious sacking" of Dr
P. Shankar Rao from the Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet.

Rao, who held the portfolio of handlooms and textiles, was removed
from the cabinet on Thursday, hours after the expansion of the
cabinet. A Dalit leader representing Secunderabad Cantonment
constituency, Rao had been a major embarrassment to the chief minister
with his open criticism on various policy decisions, besides his
frequent outbursts against his own cabinet colleagues. He was did not
attend the recent cabinet meetings.

His sacking, though not unexpected, created a furore among the Dalit
groups. Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS), which represents a
major Dalit group, strongly condemned the sacking of Rao. "Removal or
induction of a minister might be the prerogative of the chief
minister, but the way a Dalit minister was sacked was shocking. It
clearly showed the Congress and the CM are anti-Dalits," MRPS chief
Manda Krishna Madiga said.

The MRPS called for state-wide agitation in protest against Rao's
removal. "There would be dharnas at mandal headquarters on Saturday,
followed by road blockades all over the state. We would boycott the
Republic Day ceremony on January 26 and observe it as a black day,"
Madiga said.

The Telugu Desam Party, too, has come out in support of Rao.

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/andhra-pradesh-dalits-protest-sacking-dr-p-shankar-rao/1/170072.html

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[ZESTCaste] A conspiracy by Madiga, Depuy CM: Mala Leader

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Andhra Pradesh | Posted on Jan 22, 2012 at 10:50am IST
A conspiracy by Madiga, Depuy CM: Mala Leader
indianexpress Express News Service , The New Indian Express

HYDERABAD: The palabhishekam performed on former minister P Shankar
Rao by Manda Krishna Madiga cost him his Cabinet berth, Mala Mahanadu
state president Karem Sivaji has said. Speaking to newsmen here on
Saturday, Sivaji said the dismissal of their Mala leader was the
result of a conspiracy hatched by Krishna Madiga and deputy chief
minister Damodar Rajanarasimha who also belongs to Madiga community.

Condemning the dismissal of Shankar Rao from the cabinet, Sivaji said
that Krishna Madiga performed palabhishekam to create a rift between
Shankar Rao and home minister P Sabita Reddy.

As Rajanarasimha eyed the home portfolio, they wanted to use Shankar
Rao to target the home minister with the hope that the chief minister
would change her portfolio.

Sivaji also criticised Krishna Madiga for playing double standards by
backing BJP state president G Kishen Reddy's Telangana Poru Yatra.

Though Malas have been voting for the Congress for decades, the party
had chosen to dismiss a Mala minister, he said.

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