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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Mayawati govt misusing state funds: Rahul Gandhi

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Politics | Updated Nov 22, 2011 at 02:37pm IST
Mayawati govt misusing state funds: Rahul Gandhi
CNN-IBN

New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi started his
five-day Jan Sampark Abhiyaan (public contact programme) in election
bound Uttar Pradesh on a more sedate note than his November 14 rally
in Jhoosi, Phulpur, near Allahabad where he was very strident and
aggressive.

Embarking on his Jan Sampark Abhiyaan from Barabanki in central Uttar
Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the Congress was committed to
provide the state a government that would take care of the 'aam aadmi'
(common man), a slogan than he has used several times to target the
Mayawati government.

Addressing party workers in Barabanki, the Congress scion carefully
chose his words to target the state government, perhaps to avoid the
controversy that erupted after he called the migrants from Uttar
Pradesh beggars.

"If you don't do well, you will have to go out, the way you go out
every year, to Maharashtra, Punjab and Haryana. You will have to go
out and work there. Hyderabad are ahead in Information Technology.
Even if UP wants to go ahead in Information Technology, they can't
because Bangalore and Hyderabad have already reached the top spot.
Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra are doing well in automobile industry.
India is moving ahead, but UP is lagging behind. Other states are
moving ahead, in 20 years nothing has changed in UP," he said.

Accusing the state government of not utilising Central funds and not
implementing Central schemes properly, he said, "Congress party wants
to bring 'aam aadmi' government in UP. We want to see truth win
against money. We send money from Delhi but it doesn't reach people in
UP. We want to employ people through MNREGA scheme, but it doesn't
reach people. Money goes to middlemen, ministers, officials. It
doesn't reach the common man. UP Chief Minister has said that MNREGA
is not needed and doesn't benefit anyone."

"We started 'Janani Suraksha scheme' for women but the money reached
the wrong hands. The officials keep the Rs 1400 that every woman
giving birth to a child deserves. If people want to change UP, it's
not possible to do it from Delhi. The government has to change in UP.
Our effort is that every person in the country gets a UID number, so
that the money that each person deserves in the country reaches his
account directly. The money that belongs to the poor does not reach
the poor, the money gets stopped at Lucknow. We want to reach out to
people directly. We will not do one caste politics, we will bring
development oriented government," he added.

However, infighting marred the first day of his programme as Congress
ticket seekers clashed and even stopped Rahul Gandhi's cavalcade in
what can be called a security breach as he enjoys Z+ security.

Even before Rahul started on his starts his five-day public contact
programme from Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh, Congress factions belonging
to Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma and Barabanki MP PL Punia
clashed over ticket distribution. There was more trouble for the
Congress some party workers jumped before Rahul's cavalcade outside
Lucknow airport claiming discrepancies in distribution of tickets for
the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

The Congress workers claimed that they wanted to draw Rahul's
attention towards the denial of ticket to Subodh Srivastava from the
Lucknow Central Assembly constituency.

However, unlike Jhoosi where several Congress leaders including Union
Ministers rushed to beat up the protesters who had managed to reach
near Rahul's helicopter and wave black flags, no party leader was seen
taking on the protesters.

His five-day tour that will cover Bahraich, Balrampur and Shravasti
will end with a public rally in Kushinagar in eastern Uttar Pradesh on
November 26.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits told to mention their caste as Madiga during census

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Dalits told to mention their caste as Madiga during census
Staff Correspondent

The former MLA and Dalit leader H. Anjaneya has urged the Dalit
communities to mention their caste as Madiga during the caste-wise
census, which would soon be commencing in Karnataka.

Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, he said that Dalits should
necessarily mention their caste as Madiga to get themselves
differentiated from other Scheduled Caste communities.

"Since more than 100 communities have been categorised as Scheduled
Caste, the mentioning of caste as Madiga will help in knowing the
exact population of this community. This will further help the
Government frame specific policies for the welfare of this backward
community," he said.

Mr. Anjaneya, who is a Congress leader, said that the Union Government
had launched the caste-based census only for the purpose of framing
caste-specific reservation policy.

Owing to lack of specific data, many Scheduled Caste communities were
unable to take advantage of the reservation policy, he said, claiming
that under the present scenario, several communities had been included
in a singe category. "The completion of the census will help the
Government provide internal reservation, based on the socio-economic
conditions of each community," he said.

He alleged that some caste Hindu people were availing themselves of
the reservation benefits by producing false caste certificates. A few
of them had even become judges while a few others had become MLAs by
producing false certificates, he said.

Mr. Anjaneya alleged that K.G. Kumaraswamy, MLA from Shimoga Rural
constituency, was actually belonging to Vokkaliga community but had
contested in the election by claiming to be from Bhovi community "Some
people belonging to Scheduled Caste have complained against him in
this regard and the case is before the High Court," he said.

Mr. Anjaneya criticised about 12 MLAs belonging to Bhovi community for
not raising any objection against Mr. Kumaraswamy for producing a
false caste certificate.

At present, more than 100 communities have been identified as
Scheduled Castes: Dalit leader
'Several caste Hindus taking advantage of welfare schemes by producing
false certificates'

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[ZESTCaste] BSP chief Mayawati eyes bigger role in national politics with move to divide Uttar Pradesh

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Headlines Today Bureau New Delhi/Lucknow, November 22, 2011 | UPDATED 15:27 IST
BSP chief Mayawati eyes bigger role in national politics with move to
divide Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati believes and often claims that
she is cut out for the nation's top job. Is dividing UP her first
concrete move to seek a role beyond running a state?

Reorganising UP might be long overdue, but Mayawati has got her
mathematics right. Her core Dalit vote remains intact in spite of the
move.

Supporting the BSP government move, former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader
Amar Singh said: "Division of UP will be in favour of people. Why SP
is against it is beyond my understanding. Even Ram Manohar Lohia was
also in favour of small states. I thank Mayawati for this move."

By sounding the division bell, Mayawati has won herself some fans in
and even outside the state.

Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who has been
heading a campaign for a separate Telangana state, said: "I appreciate
and welcome the decision of Mayawati to divide UP. She also spoke in
favour of Telangana so we are thankful to her."

Analysts say in UP where the party and the government are virtually
the same, the proposal means that Mayawati has set her eyes beyond the
state. Helping her along is the Congress's ham-handed handling of the
Telangana issue, which is further fuelling the demand for smaller
states.

Maya's vote bank
The Third Front might have been routed in the general elections in
2009, but Mayawati's dream of prime ministership is still alive. She
would evidently benefit most as her vote-bank, which is no longer just
restricted to Dalits but also includes upper caste Brahmins, would be
spread in all four states.

Dalits are evenly spread throughout the state with 18.17 per cent
presence in western UP or Paschim Pradesh, 21.15 per cent in eastern
UP or Purvanchal, 25.14 per cent in Bundelkhand region and 26.1 per
cent in central UP or Awadh Pradesh.

SP may suffer post-division
Perhaps the one party that would suffer the most due to this decision
would be the SP, an archrival of the BSP in the state. Party chief
Mulayam Singh Yadav's major seat is Etawah, which is in eastern
districts. However, in the new proposed states, he would not have one
major area where his vote bank would be concentrated.

The SP's around 10 to 12 per cent core Yadav vote is not uniform, with
one great chunk in the east and one in the Etawah-Mainpuri-Etah belt.
That means the party's base would split. This could mean other
backward castes and even Muslims ignoring a depleted SP.

Big challenge for Congress
The Congress, in particular, is in a bind. As the principal ruling
party at the Centre, it cannot readily support the UP demand without
further queering the pitch in Andhra Pradesh, where the agitation for
a separate Telangana state has virtually paralysed the administration.

On the other hand, doing well in the UP elections is equally important
since it could be the launch pad for Congress heir-apparent Rahul
Gandhi's move to a larger role at the national level.

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[ZESTCaste] Harassment glare after Dalit campus suicides

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Harassment glare after Dalit campus suicides
BASANT KUMAR MOHANTY

New Delhi, Nov. 21: Manish Kumar could not take it any more. The
harassment he had been suffering for three years only because he was a
Dalit was showing no signs of abating. So, the IIT Roorkee student
killed himself.

That was on February 13 this year. Manish had been a third-year BTech
student and was the only hope of his family, his shattered father
Rajinder Kumar said.

"Manish was my only son and the future of our family. He was a
brilliant student. He wanted to become a technocrat. But he died
depressed with the constant humiliation he had to face at the
institute. He was called a chamar (low caste)," Rajinder said.

After his suicide, the local police did not file a case against the
accused. Only recently, a case was registered on the orders of a local
court. There has hardly been any progress in investigations.

"I have met Uttarakhand DGP J.S. Pandey and demanded a fresh probe. He
has agreed," Rajinder said.

Manish's suicide is not an isolated case. The Insight Foundation, a
group working against discrimination against Dalit and tribal students
in higher education institutions, recently released a report on
suicides by 18 Dalit students in the last four years.

"Despite reservation in education and jobs, most of the administrative
staff and faculty in higher education institutions are from the upper
castes. They think Dalit students are not meritorious. They harass
Dalit students and in many cases these students commit suicide. We
have found 18 such suicides in reputed institutions in the last four
years," Gurinder Singh Azad, the students' co-ordinator of the Insight
Foundation, said.

The organisation brought the matter to the notice of National Advisory
Council member Aruna Roy, who wrote a letter to NAC chairperson Sonia
Gandhi in May this year.

The Telegraph has accessed the letters between Sonia and Roy under the
Right to Information Act. In her reply to Roy, Sonia said the
authorities concerned would examine the issue.

The NAC then directed the human resource development ministry to look
into the alleged suicides. The ministry asked the University Grants
Commission if it was aware of such a problem and if it had taken steps
to prevent such incidents.

The UGC quickly issued two circulars in July to universities under it,
directing them to take steps to prevent caste discrimination.

"The UGC's circulars may not yield any result. They are advisory in
nature," said Udit Raj, the chairperson of the All India Confederation
of SC/ST Organisations.

The Insight Foundation claimed that faculty members deliberately
harassed Dalit students, regardless of merit.

One such case is of Jaspreet Singh, an MBBS student of Government
Medical College, Chandigarh, who committed suicide in 2008.

The suicide note found in Jaspreet's pocket said a senior faculty
member had been harassing him regularly and had failed him in one
subject.

Based on a complaint filed by Jaspreet's father Charan Singh, a team
of professors from PGI Chandigarh re-evaluated the paper and awarded
Jaspreet pass marks.

Jaspreet's younger sister killed herself a year later on Rakshabandhan
day, apparently because she could not tie a rakhi on her brother's
wrist.

"Is it a mistake to be born in a Dalit family in this country? My son
was a brilliant student but was harassed deliberately by an HoD. I
lost my youngest daughter, who committed suicide being depressed over
his brother's death," Charan said.

"I cannot say why the HoD has not been arrested and suspended from the
job. The suicide note clearly mentioned his name."

The matter is pending in a local court in Chandigarh.

Of the 18 students who committed suicide, five are from IITs, one from
IISc Bangalore and one from AIIMS.

Allegations of caste-based discrimination have earlier been filed
against IIT Kanpur authorities. Many Dalit students had to terminate
their courses for "bad performance" in IIT Kanpur last year.

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[ZESTCaste] BSP candidate booked for beating up a Dalit

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/BSP-candidate-booked--for-beating-up-a-Dalit/879028/

BSP candidate booked for beating up a Dalit

Express news service Posted online: Tue Nov 22 2011, 05:57 hrs
Lucknow : A case under the Prevention of Atrocities on SC/ST Act was
registered against BSP leader last night for allegedly beating up a
Dalit and humiliating him publicly at the party office in Civil Lines
police station area of Rampur district on June 22.

The accused, Yusuf Ali Khan, is the BSP candidate from Chamrawwa
Assembly constituency. Bhukan Lal, the complainant, said that an
inquiry had found the BSP leader guilty and the report was handed over
to the Rampur Superintendent of Police (SP) a month ago, but the FIR
was lodged yesterday.

Superintendent of Police Bhanu Bhaskar, however, said that the report
was completed and handed over to him recently.

Lal said that the incident was sequel to a matter related to the
cancellation of the licence of his cousin Ashrafi's fair price shop in
March. Khan had got the licenced cancelled by Sub-Divisional
Magistrate of Tanda Ram Singh, as he wanted it to be allotted to one
of his relatives. Lal had then filed an application before the
Moradabad Commissioner, seeking his intervention into the matter. The
commissioner later issued an order in Asharfi's favour.

Lal said he went to the SDM and apprised him of the commissioner's
order, but the SDM refused to let them open the shop till the BSP
leader gave permission for it. The SDM even asked him to meet Khan and
convince him, Lal alleged.

According to Lal, he went to the BSP district unit office on June 22
and requested Khan to tell the SDM that he had no objection over the
commissioner's order. But the BSP leader lost his temper and beat him
mercilessly, and humiliated him by making derogatory references to his
caste in presence of the party workers, Lal alleged.

Later, Lal met the then SP Ramit Sharma, who ordered an inquiry into
the incident. The circle officer (City) conducted an inquiry and
submitted his report last month.

The BSP leader, meanwhile, said that charges against him were
baseless. "Bhukan Lal had lodged a false complaint at the instance of
my political rivals," he said.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Mayawati govt misusing state funds: Rahul Gandhi

[ZESTCaste] Dalits told to mention their caste as Madiga during census

[ZESTCaste] BSP chief Mayawati eyes bigger role in national politics with move to divide Uttar Pradesh

[ZESTCaste] Harassment glare after Dalit campus suicides

[ZESTCaste] BSP candidate booked for beating up a Dalit

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