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[ZESTCaste] Laxman inaugurates 3-day convention of BJP SC/ST wing in MP

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Laxman inaugurates 3-day convention of BJP SC/ST wing in MP

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Mhow (MP), Aug 10 (PTI) Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman today
inaugurated a three-day convention of the BJP SC/ST wing in town hall
of Mhow cantonment.The Wing�s National President Dushyant Kumar
Gautam, National spokesperson Amarnath Kohvind and National General
Secretary Thawarchand Gehlot were among those present at the
inauguration.After lighting the candle, Laxman addressed the gathering
which included wing's office bearers of 27 states, Members of
Parliament and Members of Legislative Assemblies of these
states.Before the inauguration ceremony, Laxman and other leaders
reached the birthplace of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar situated in Kali
Paltan area of Mhow and garlanded Dr Ambedkar�s bust there.The third
phase will be completed soon in the leadership of Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, he told reporters here.

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[ZESTCaste] Support for Umashankar irks state

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Support for Umashankar irks state

August 11th, 2010
DC Share Buzz up!Tags: fake dalit certificate, suspended IAS officer,
Umashankar Aug. 10: The growing support for suspended IAS officer C.
Umashankar from several dalit outfits and political parties, accusing
the DMK government of victimising an honest dalit officer for acting
against influential people, is causing huge discomfort for the ruling
party when elections are just round the corner. Dalits constitute over
20 per cent of the state electorate.

One after another, several dalit outfits and intelligentsia across
Tamil Nadu have been holding protest rallies in support of Mr
Umashankar and accusing the government of being vindictive because he
had openly challenged some corrupt practices of influential people.

Senior political leaders, including CPI veteran R. Nallakannu, CPI (M)
state secretary G. Ramakrishnan and veteran Gandhian Tamilaruvi Manian
will share a pro-Umashankar platform in Chennai on Thursday.

Ridiculing the government's justification for the suspension, former
IAS officer P. Sivakami, a popular dalit activist, said, "Umashankar's
father is a dalit pallar and all his siblings are dalits. Where does
the question of producing a false SC certificate arise? Did the
government suspend the many other officers against whom similar charge
of using fake SC certificate was levelled? Some of them are now in
prominent posts." VCK general secretary D. Ravikumar, MLA, demanded
that the suspension be revoked and Mr Umashankar reinstated.

AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa has slammed the government on
the Umashankar issue and demanded to know why the chief minister was
silent on some of the crucial allegations made by the officer, such as
the functioning of the joint-venture Elnet and the government cable TV
corporation. Literary magazine Dalit Murasu has come out with an
editorial accusing Karunanidhi of being 'a bundle of contradictions'
in punishing a dalit officer because he claimed SC reservation even
after conversion to Christianity, but at the same time demanding the
Centre to open SC quotas to dalit Christians .

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[ZESTCaste] Nepal: Dalit family fined for inter-caste marriage

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Dalit family fined for inter-caste marriage

PANITYANKI, Aug 10: Locals in Chhitaha VDC-5 of Sunsari district have
fined a Dalit family Rs 55,000 for marrying a girl from the non-Dalit
community.

Local administration, through a meeting of the villagers called by
Bhola Pal, who is from the so called upper caste family, slapped the
fine on the family of Ram Prasad Ram after his 18-year-old son Badri
Ram married 16-year-old Sonu Pal, according to a local Dalit activist
Bal Kumar Mundel.

He said the duo was in love for long and married a month ago and is
living separately from the family. The girl's side searched them and
forcefully separated the pair saying that the marriage was against the
law.

Later, Pal called a villagers' meeting which decided to fine the family.

Police said they are unaware of the incident.

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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati allocates Rs.500 crore more for parks, memorials

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Mayawati allocates Rs.500 crore more for parks, memorials

2010-08-10 22:30:00

Unfazed by criticism against 'overspending' on parks and statues,
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati once again allocated nearly Rs.
500 crores towards her dream projects in the Rs.5,461 crore
supplementary budget tabled before the state assembly Tuesday.

While the larger chunk of the allocation (Rs.409 crore) was meant for
the sprawling 190-acre Kanshi Ram Eco Park coming up on the site of
the shifted Lucknow district jail, some funds were also earmarked for
three other projects underway to commemorate the contribution of the
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder and Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, the
party's tallest icon.

On the contrary, the budget has an allocation of barely Rs.3.5 crore
for development of Amethi as a district, the political bastion of the
Congress represented by Rahul Gandhi.

Mayawati's declaration to upgrade Amethi and name it Chattrapati
Shahuji Maharaj district had come as a jolt for the Congress
leadership.

Prior to Rahul, the Amethi parliamentary constituency was represented
by his father Rajiv Gandhi and still earlier by his uncle Sanjay
Gandhi.

However, while tabling the budget, state Finance Minister Lalji Verma
did not focus at all on Amethi. In fact, apart from construction of a
few residential quarters for officials and a small building for the
treasury, only token allocations of Rs.1,000 were made against several
other heads including infrastructure.

Significantly, Rs.23.82 crore was earmarked as overhead charges to be
paid to the government agency engaged in the construction of the
Kanshiram memorial (Manyavar Shri Kanshiramji Samarak Sthal) while
Rs.48.22 crore was allocated for the Ambedkar memorial (Dr.Bhimrao
Amedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal).

Out of the latter sum, Rs.8.46 crore is for giving a facelift to the
exteriors of the Ambedkar memorial.

Mayawati, while justifying the allocation of more than Rs.6,000 crore
towards these memorials in successive budgets, had earlier asserted
that whatever she had spent each year towards commemoration of these
icons was not more than one percent of the state's annual budget.

In a statement issued here Tuesday evening, the state government
clarified that budget allocation towards the monuments was in no way
in 'violation of the Supreme Court order, suspending all construction
activity at the Ambedkar memorial'.

'The budget has been earmarked only for giving a facelift to the
exterior of the monument and not for carrying out any work inside the
premises,' an official spokesman claimed.

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[ZESTCaste] BSP hijacked Ambedkar: Gautam

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BSP hijacked Ambedkar: Gautam

Category » Madhya Pradesh Posted On Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Chronicle News Service

Indore, Aug 10:
Bharatiya Janata Party's Scheduled Caste Front President Dushyant
Kumar Gautam today charged the Bahujan Samaj Party with hijacking
architect of Indian Constitution Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar.
Talking to reporters here, Mr Gautam, who is here to take part in the
executive meeting of the party's SC Front here on August 10-11, said
the BJP has been working in accordance with the concept of Ambedkar's
last man from beginning.
He said his party had no objection in caste-based census being carried
out by the Centre but it opposed the recommendations of the Rangnatha
Mishra committee report that had reduced reservation for SCs.
Describing 'Dalit-affection' of Congress General Secretary Rahul
Gandhi as a sham, he said dalits were still with the BJP.