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[ZESTCaste] Please sign petition to Protect the human rights of an innocent Dalit boy

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Please sign petition to Protect the human rights of an innocent Dalit boy Pidathala Sathyambabu from corrupted judiciary and police, who falsely implicated and punished for life sentence in Ayesha Meera murder case, to protect the real culprits

Click the link here - http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?sathyam

Karthik Navayan

Coordinator

Sathyambabu Ayeshameera Nyaya Porata Committee

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits for Rout’s arrest

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101001/jsp/orissa/story_13003008.jsp

Dalits for Rout's arrest

OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bhubaneswar, Sept. 30: The ongoing tussle between the ruling Biju
Janata Dal's Jagatsinghpur MLA Bishnu Charan Das and agriculture
minister Damodar Rout today took a new turn with Dalit organisations
staging a rally in the capital demanding Rout's "immediate arrest" for
his alleged anti-Dalit remarks.

Both leaders hail from Jagatsinghpur district.

Several Dalit groups — the National Conference of Dalit Organization
(NCDO), Odisha Dalit Sangharsa Samittee, Kandhamal Sampradika Hinsa
Prapidita Sangathana and Odisha Ambedkar Mission — participated in the
rally. Later, a delegation called on governor M.C. Bhandare and
submitted a memorandum urging him to initiate action against Rout. "It
(the rally) was a ploy to put pressure on Naveen Patnaik to sack
Rout," said a BJD leader.

The allegation against Rout is that he had — during a public meeting
at a public meeting in Kujang of Jagatsinghpur district on August 18 —
taken the name of the caste of the Dalit MP, MLA and local additional
district magistrate of Jagatsinghpur district while saying that the
Dalit officials had been conspiring against him. Subsequently, a
complaint was lodged against Rout at Kujang police station on charges
of violating rules under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes
(Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

Jagatsinghpur MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai of the CPI, a supporter of the
Bishnu Das faction, played a major role in organising the rally. "We
plan to meet the chief minister over this issue," he said. Both Das
and Tarai had demanded action against Rout during a meet of the
Scheduled Castes Welfare Advisory Board on September 21.

On Thursday, a group of people had staged a demonstration when Rout
had gone to Jagatsinghpur to attend an official meet at the district
collectorate. The police had to escort Rout to the venue. Das and Rout
are at loggerheads in district politics and supporters of Das believe
that if Rout were dropped from the ministry, Das would then make it to
the council of ministers.

An organiser of today's rally and spokesperson for the NCDO Rajani
Tilak said: "We will organise a meet in Delhi to urge the Centre to
put pressure on the state government to initiate action against Rout
for humiliating the Dalits. Rout should not go scot-free."

The Dalit leader also contended that despite constitutional
provisions, the state government was not implementing 38 per cent
reservation policy in educational institutions for Dalits. He also
alleged that SC and ST MLAs were not getting proper representation in
the council of ministers.

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[ZESTCaste] Book Review: The Persistence of Caste

http://navayana.org/?p=1105

The Persistence of Caste
The Khairlanji Murders & India's Hidden Apartheid

Anand Teltumbde

Rs 200 | 192 pages | Paperback Demy 1/8 | 9788189059-286

Anand Teltumbde's analysis of the public, ritualistic massacre of a
dalit family in 21st century India exposes the gangrenous heart of our
society… This is not a book about the last days of relict feudalism,
but a book about what modernity means in India.
ARUNDHATI ROY

I would hope to see it read by every Indian activist and also
foreigners who do not see how odious the caste system is.
SAMIR AMIN

Teltumbde bears witness to the degradation of Indian democracy.
VIJAY PRASHAD

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian
Constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes
a crime is committed on a dalit. The gouging out of eyes, the hacking
off of limbs and being burned alive or stoned to death are routine in
the atrocities perpetrated against India's 170 million dalits. What
drives people to commit such inhuman crimes?

The Persistence of Caste uses the shocking case of Khairlanji, the
brutal murder of four members of a dalit family in 2006, to explode
the myth that caste no longer matters. Analyzing context and crime, it
seeks to locate this event in the political economy of the development
process India has followed after Independence. Teltumbde demonstrates
how caste has shown amazing resilience – surviving feudalism,
capitalist industrialization and a republican Constitution – to still
be alive and well today, despite all denial, under neoliberal
globalization.

(For sale in South Asia only; for rest of the world, an edition is
available from Zed Books, London.)

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[ZESTCaste] LJP wields caste mantra, names 58

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/LJP-wields-caste-mantra--names-58/691424

LJP wields caste mantra, names 58

Santosh Singh Posted online: Sat Oct 02 2010, 04:57 hrs

Patna : As always, caste equation is sure to play a major role in the
coming Bihar elections if the candidate lists of parties are taken
into account. The latest to jump on to the 'caste bandwagon' is the
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).
A day after the RJD dug out its old Muslim-Yadav (M-Y) formula,
alliance partner LJP's list of 58 candidates worked out a new
combination of Dalit-Muslim and Upper castes (DMU).

At the same time, LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan gave enough suggestions of
"all in the family" by fielding brother and deputy CM nominee
Pashupati Kumar Paras from his seat Alauli in Khagaria. Another
younger brother and former MP Ramchandra Paswan will contest from
Kusheshwar Sthan.

Paswan, while retaining most of his sitting MLAs, has got 17 upper
caste, 13 Dalit and 10 Muslim candidates in the fray. Overall, LJP
will contest 75 seats. Two of its sitting MLAs had joined the NDA.

While tickets to Dalit and Muslim candidates does not surprise anyone,
preference to upper caste candidates shows how much the LJP chief
banks on "upper caste voters disenchanted" with the Nitish Kumar-led
NDA government.

The LJP has fielded Sonam Devi, wife of convicted leader Nalini Ranjan
alias Lalan Singh, against Mokama strongman, JD-U MLA Anant Singh.
Sonam Devi is a shadow candidate of another convicted LJP leader Surah
Bhan Singh. The war of words in the "battle of bahubalis" has started
with Anant Singh and Lalan Singh using harsh words against each other.
Araria LJP MLA Jakir Hussain, who led the party into BJP fortress
Simanchal in the 2009 September by-poll, will have to fight hard to
save his seat. Alauli, where Paras is fielded, will be another battle
of prestige for the RJD-LJP deputy CM nominee. Three defectors have
also got LJP tickets.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit gangrape: 2 more accused held

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Dalit-gangrape--2-more-accused-held/691439

Dalit gangrape: 2 more accused held
Milind Ghatwai Posted online: Sat Oct 02 2010, 05:39 hrs
Bhopal : Two remaining accused in the alleged gangrape of a minor
Dalit girl at Mandla in Madhya Pradesh were arrested on Friday.
Omprakash Pradhan, son of a deputy collector, was remanded in police
custody till October 11. The fifth accused to be arrested is Gopal
Sarthi.

Omprakash, student of a private engineering college in Jabalpur, had
fled after three of his accomplices in the crime were arrested.

The police found several indecent clips involving school girls, hostel
inmates and honeymooning couples from Omprakash Pradhan's computer
seized on Thursday from his father's official residence in Mandla.

The clips had been filmed secretly, sub-divisional police officer
Santosh Mahto said. He said the clips were not downloaded from the
Internet and involved local people, who could have been later
blackmailed.

The police said some influential people would soon be arrested in
connection with what appears to be a big racket. It was yet to be
analysed if all the videos were shot by the accused because some of
the clips involve girls from Bhopal, Gwalior and even Delhi. At least
five of them appeared to be local girls.

The police said it was possible that the gang gave rooms to
unsuspecting couples, filmed them, and later either blackmailed them
or circulated the clips in the market.

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Saturday, October 2, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Please sign petition to Protect the human rights of an innocent Dalit boy

[ZESTCaste] Dalits for Rout’s arrest

[ZESTCaste] Book Review: The Persistence of Caste

[ZESTCaste] LJP wields caste mantra, names 58

[ZESTCaste] Dalit gangrape: 2 more accused held

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