DALIT, Daily update ⋅
15 February 2020
Ten injured in 'thakur-dalit' clash in Uttar Pradesh
Deccan Herald
Ten persons have been injured as members of 'Thakur' and SC communities clashed over taking out a procession in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur Dehat ...
Over 400 Dalits in Coimbatore converted to Islam, claims outfit
The Hindu
Over 400 persons from Coimbatore have converted to Islam in recent weeks, Tamil Puligal, a Dalit outfit, has claimed. According to M. Ilavenil, general ...
Dalits and BJP take out pro-CAA rally in Hubballi
Deccan Herald
Under the banner of Pragatipara Dalit Okkutugala Mahasabha, members of Dalit organisations and BJP workers took out a rally in Hubballi on ...
Coimbatore: Head mistress forced 10-year-old Dalit girl to clean toilet?
The New Indian Express
COIMBATORE: Parents of a 10-year-old Dalit girl and members of Student Federation of India have filed a complaint against the headmistress of ...
Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar calls for Delhi Chalo on March 4 against CAA
The New Indian Express
NEW DELHI: Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar called for a march in the capital on March 4 to protest against the CAA. The 'Delhi Chalo' march would ...
Headmistress of Coimbatore school accused of forcing Dalit girl to clean toilet
The Hindu
A Dalit man from Idikarai in Coimbatore lodged a complaint with the Periyanaickenpalayam police on Thursday, alleging that the headmistress of his ...
Gujarat: Principal Rapes, Molests Dalit Minor for Year, Victim Attempts Suicide
NewsClick
A 16-year-old dalit girl slashed her wrist in an attempt to commit suicide on February 12 at Chotila, Surendranagar district after allegedly being raped ...
6 injured in UP caste clash
Daijiworld.com
Kanpur, Feb 14 (IANS): Six persons were injured and a house was set ablaze in a clash between members of the Dalit and upper caste communities ...
Water supply restored to Dalits' homes in Sangrur's Tolewal village
The Tribune
“On Wednesday, we received information that the water supply to the houses of Dalits at Tolewal had been stopped by some upper caste men by ...
BJP wows to expose Congress on Dalit reservation issue
The Hans India
Hyderabad: Launching a scathing attack on Congress party, Telangana BJP State president Dr K Laxman alleged that the party is hatching another ...
Chotila rape: Accused sent to police remand
Ahmedabad Mirror
According to case details, the 16-year-old Dalit student used a blade to slash her wrist multiple times in an attempt to kill herself on Tuesday after ...
Social Boycott, a powerful oppressive tool to perpetuate caste hierarchies in Gujarat
Kashmir Times
A new Dalit leadership also emerged from the Una flogging incident. As the Dalit groups were uniting, a young dynamic speaker Jignesh Mewani ...
Nitish Kumar''s aide seeks his intervention for safeguarding
Outlook India
"Dalits across the country are once again hataash (disheartened) and niraash (disappointed) because of non- implementation of reservation in ...
Unkept Secrets: 'People often look the other way'
Jewish News
Director Dalit Kimor has confronted the issue head on in Unkept Secrets, a brave, shocking and emotive documentary on child sex abuse within the ...
'Biased' annulment of YWSLCS halted: Andhra Pradesh MLA Vidadala Rajini
The New Indian Express
The government allocated 416.50 acres of land for 250 Dalit families at Yadevalli village of Chilakaluripet rural mandal.
Delhi polls: AAP— Catch-all party that brought communities, castes under one net
The Indian Express
Nearly three-fourths (72%) of Jatavs, two-thirds of Balmikis and two-thirds of the other Dalit castes reposed their faith in the party yet again. While these ...
Hyderabad: All India Scheduled Castes Rights Protection Society has alleged that Both Centre
The Hans India
... All India Scheduled Castes Rights Protection Society has alleged that both the state and the central governments are ignoring the welfare of Dalits.
Phagwara clash: HC dismisses bail plea of 2 right-wing Hindu leaders
Hindustan Times
The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed bail pleas of two accused in the April 2018 clash between Dalits and members of the right-wing ...
BJP conspiring to end reservation: Surjewala
United News of India
"BJP's DNA is atrocities on Dalits, attack on the 'Jal, Jangal & Jameen' of the Scheduled Tribes and trampling upon the rights of backward classes," ...
Uddhav Thackeray overrules NCP on Elgar Parishad case
Times of India
The Elgar Parishad was a gathering held by Dalit groups and others at Shaniwar Wada in Pune on December 31, 2017, a day before violence broke
BJP, RSS planning to scrap reservations: RC Khuntia
Telangana Today
“While the BJP made Dalit scholar Ram Nath Kovind President of India, the Congress always treated Muslims as vote bank. Why did the Congress ...
Why Must the Uttarakhand Govt Undermine Urdu to Promote Sanskrit?
The Wire
... opposed the introduction of philosophy at Anna University, arguing that this would be a proxy for Sanskrit, which according to many Dalit scholars, ...
Shun RJD image of MY party: Tejashwi
Times of India
In a first, RJD introduced 27% quota for extremely backward caste candidates (EBCs) and 18% for the Dalits in the selection of district presidents and ...
Anti CAA Protests: Students, activists begin hunger strike in Ghazipur jail, after being arrested for ...
Telegraph India
We are getting divided into Hindu-Muslim, Dalit-Savarna, Forward-Backward, India-Pakistan,” read their call under the name of Nagrik Satyagrah.
"No Review So Long As Social Inequality Exists": Chirag Paswan On Quota
ndtv.com
Chirag Paswan claimed that reservations will need to remain "as long as Dalits are prevented from entering temples to worship" by their upper-caste ...
Letter From Issue Editor
Outlook India
An individual can be a north Indian, one who hails from Punjab, as also a Dalit or Brahmin. Similarly, a person can be a man, woman, third gender, ...
'Unlike BJP, Congress is not run by two people, our president will be decided in a plenary session ...
Free Press Journal
Speaking with the media, Surjewala called the RSS and the BJP as “anti-Dalit”. “They can't see the upliftment of underprivileged communities.
Priyanka lambasts UP govt over law, order
Daily Pioneer
Alleging that the Modi government was conspiring to end reservation, Surjewala charged that the BJP and Sangh Parivar have been anti-Dalit, ...
Stunning gender gap: Women voters powered AAP's landslide in Delhi
Yahoo India News
Similarly, while among Dalit men, AAP led the BJP by 21 percentage points, among Dalit women its lead over BJP was a mammoth 65 percentage ...
Navi Mum BJP leaders likely to defect to Shiv Sena, NCP
Hindustan Times
There is a large Muslim and Dalit population here that is not comfortable with the party,”he added. Meanwhile, three BJP women corporators and four ...
Elgar Parishad case: HC rejects anticipatory bail pleas of Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde
Hindustan Times
The case relates to the violence on New Year's Day in 2018 on the banks of the Bhima river, where thousands of people, mostly Dalits, had gathered ...
