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Re: [ZESTCaste] University students cook beef, have a feast!

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> http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=169688
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> University students cook beef, have a feast!
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> BANGALORE Feb 19:

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit youth assaulted

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By M Rafi Ahmed
19 Feb 2010 02:44:00 AM IST

Dalit youth assaulted

COIMBATORE: Even after enactment of Prevention of Atrocities Act two
decade ago, Dalits continue to be targeted by the upper caste people
on one pretext or the other. An Arunthathiyar youth was allegedly
assaulted by a group of upper class men in the city's outskirts
recently.
Speaking to Express, M Thangavel, State Convenor for Avinashi based
NGO Vizhuthugal said P Karuppasamy was going to Mathipalayam in a bus
when a person belonging to upper caste allegedly questioned the youth
for sitting next to him. A few more caste Hindus joined him and
started using abusive language.
When Karuppasamy alighted the bus, they assaulted him. Later, he was
treated at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.
Though Perur police registered a case against five persons, no arrest
has been made so far.

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[ZESTCaste] Karuna flays remarks of SC/ST panel vice-chairman on Tamil Nadu

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Karuna flays remarks of SC/ST panel vice-chairman on Tamil Nadu
PTI

Friday, February 19, 2010 20:53 IST

Chennai: Taking objection to the reported remarks of vice-chairman of
the national SC/ST commission NM Kambley that Tamil Nadu was not doing
enough for the welfare of the Adi Dravida community members, chief
minister M Karunanidhi today said he would take up the matter with
prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh.

Writing in DMK's mouth piece Murasoli, he refuted the reported
allegations by Kambley that the state had not kept the panel informed
about its decision to give a 3% reservation to the Arundathiyar
community (a Dalit sub cast).

"The chief secretary had written to the chairman of the commission,
Buta Singh in November 2008 on the state's decision to implement the
reservation and we also have a reply of the commission," he said.

Also, no rule stipulated seeking the nod of the commission to
implement the reservation, Karunanidhi said adding all efforts were
taken to implement the reservation to the community without any dealy
after the announcement was made.

DMK government had at different times, implemented various measures,
including increasing reservation ceiling for SC/ST
in education and employment as early as in 1971, he said.

It was in Chennai that a Law University was named after BR Ambedkar,
he said addingthe financial allocation for the welfare of SC/ST
community was increased four-fold at Rs2,615 crore in 2009-10 as
against the Rs567 crore in 2005-06.

"It is regrettable to note that the commission has made an impression
as if we dont care for the welfare of SC/ST people.
I will bring the issue to the notice of prime minister Singh," he said.

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[ZESTCaste] BJP trying to woo dalits for cheap political gains: Congress

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BJP trying to woo dalits for cheap political gains: Congress

New Delhi, Feb 19 : The Congress today flayed BJP leader L K Advani
for criticising the UPA goverment on price rise and its proposed
policy on return of people from Pak occupied Kashmir (PoK) and said
the BJP was trying to woo dalits for cheap political gains.

Reacting to the BJP leader's statement that if the elections were held
today the UPA government would loose it on the price rise issue,
Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, ''Mr L K Advani is
living in a dream world wishing for fresh elections every year as he
is perpetually the Prime Minister in waiting. However, even if we hold
a monthly elections his chance of becoming the Prime Minister will
remain a dream.'' Terming as 'unfair' Mr Advani's criticism of Mr P
Chidambaram's proposed policy on return of people from PoK, he said
the Home Minister has used four to five caliberated words and the
policy is yet to be evolved with process of identification, selection,
separation and documentation, and only once the person pass through
all the test he could come back to Jammu and Kashmir.

''Mr Advani should stop fishing in troubled water especially since he
is a former Home Minister. Mr Advani's tenure as the Home Minister was
unbearably tragic as many terrorist incidents happened and with no
innovations,'' he added.

Regarding BJP leader Nitin Gadkari's recent efforts to woo dalits, he
charged the party with copying the Congress and said the new found
love for the dalits is for cheap political gains.

The BJP had earlier neither taken any disciplinary action against its
leader Arun Shourie when he had criticised the founder of Indian
Constitution B R Ambedkar in his book nor distanced itself from it.

Another BJP leader M M Joshi had said those undergoing religious
conversion should not get the benefit of reservation, he pointed out.

On the other hand the Congress during the past 100 years has supported
the dalit movement and struggled for the downtrodden and now the BJP
is trying to term it as 'meant for Photo-ops'.

During the Congress regime a Dalit woman has become the Lok Sabha
speaker while post of President and the Supreme Court Chief Justice
has been occupied by a member of the dalit community.

''We do not need to reiterate these issues but the BJP is doing all
the show off which the people of the country would reject,'' he added.

--UNI

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[ZESTCaste] BJP's Dalit-friendly agenda

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BJP's Dalit-friendly agenda

Last updated on: February 18, 2010 17:57 IST

Aimed at broadbasing support for it, the Bharatiya Janata Party has
gone all out to woo the Dalit community, with party president Nitin
Gadkari invoking B R Ambedkar in his presidential address at the
national council in Indore and making a special mention of disgraced
former party chief Bangaru Laxman, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste.

"Dr Ambedkar was a true humanist who gave voice to the voiceless. His
life best teaches the values of social justice and samajik samarasta
(social cohesion). I offer my homage to this towering leader of all of
us," he said at the BJP national council which began its two-day
meeting on Thursday.

Soon after landing in the city on Tuesday, Gadkari, 52, had directly
gone to Ambedkar's birthplace Mhow, to pay tributes to the Dalit icon.
He also stopped on the way to Indore, at the home of Dalit BJP
Corporator Preeti Karosiya, to have lunch.

The symbolism of both these acts has not been lost on the people and
the party cadre.

Text: Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi in Indore/PTI

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Friday, February 19, 2010

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