DALIT,
Daily update ⋅ 19 August 2020
As assembly polls near, dalit politics gains steam in Bihar
THE WEEK
Dalit politics began gaining momentum in Bihar ahead of the assembly elections. Eleven years after he left the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led RJD to join ...
Punjab's Dalit topper could get full scholarship from Delhi's Ashoka University
ThePrint
A Dalit barber's daughter in Punjab's Mansa district, Jaspreet made headlines when the Punjab Board declared its results on 22 July and she secured ...
MP horror: 3 Dalit men brutally thrashed over suspicion of water pump theft
The New Indian Express
While two of the three Dalit men reported to the local police the horror which they went through, the third Dalit man who was allegedly kidnapped by the ...
'Could not Stand Dalit Man Saying No': Kin of Murdered Pradhan in UP Allege Murder by Upper ...
NewsClick
Deoria: The recent murder of a Dalit pradhan in the Bansgaon area of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, has resulted in a wave of protests across the state, ...
'They killed him as they couldn't stand a Dalit man saying no'
The Indian Express
Dalits like them outnumber the upper castes 5:1 in Bansgaon village of Azamgarh district, but real power has rarely slipped out of the hands of Brahmins ...
Why we need to celebrate Dashrath Manjhi, a Dalit, as the personification of love
DailyO
While Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal as a monument of love for his dead wife, Dashrath Manjhi, a Dalit who died on this day 13 years ago, ...
Despite 74 Years Of Independence, Dalit Lives Haven't Improved Much: Amalapuram MP Chinta ...
Feminism in India
The 47-year-old Dalit leader Chinta Anuradha may have gotten the opportunity to enter politics after her father's demise but it was her immense ...
Tamil Nadu: Dalit Panchayat Head Prevented From Unfurling Tricolour on Independence Day
The Wire
A village school had invited Amurtham for the ceremony but withdrew the invitation on August 15 morning. Tamil Nadu: Dalit Panchayat Head ...
Thakurs unleash anti-Dalit violence in UP during the lockdown, police accused of bias
The Caravan
On 13 June, over a hundred upper-caste people attacked a colony of the Dalit community in Pokhari village of Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur district.
Dalit teen gangraped and killed
Telegraph India
A 13-year-old Dalit girl was found gang-raped and strangled with her dupatta on Saturday, her eyes gouged out and her tongue carrying a gash ...
Bengaluru violence an atrocity on Dalit, says BJP legislator Aravind Limbavali
Times of India
“I am not sure if this was internal politics of the Congress or atrocity against Dalits, but is unfortunate.” State unit president Naveen Kumar Kateel will ...
Days after woman married Dalit, her sister booked in Aligarh for 'promoting enmity'
The Indian Express
Days after woman married Dalit, her sister booked in Aligarh for 'promoting enmity'. On Monday, Faizy got an FIR lodged against three persons — ...
A 70-year-old demand ignored: Why activists urge SC status for Christian and Muslim Dalits
The News Minute
Dalit Christian organisations have been fighting to prove that the caste system exists among Christians and that those who convert should be allowed to ...
Maya jaal: BSP leader is in for a reality check
Mumbai Mirror
Without the BSP, the BJP has a fair bit of Dalit support. ... Put simply, the backward castes and Dalits never perceived the BJP as a party exclusively of ...
Congress leaders slam Yogi Adityanath govt over caste violence, crimes against women
Oneindia
Satyamev, a Dalit and the head of Basgaon village in the Tarwan area of Azamgarh district, was shot dead last week. In a Facebook post in Hindi, ...
Rahul, Priyanka slam Yogi govt over rising cases of caste violence and crimes against women in UP
The New Indian Express
Attacking the Adityanath government over the killing of a Dalit village head in Azamgarh's Basgaon, Rahul Gandhi alleged that in Uttar Pradesh, the ...
BJP panel visits riot-hit areas
The New Indian Express
... when the BJP has been accusing Congress of refusing to stand up for Dalits, it has formed a committee comprising only of Dalit and OBC leaders.
Cong is doing vote bank politics, says K'taka Deputy Chief Minister
United News of India
... attacking the Congress over the Bangalore violence, accused it of practicing vote bank politics and deliberately ignored the Dalit community.
Dalit Minor Girl Raped And Strangled in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri District Over Open Defecation
Youth Ki Awaaz
A 13-year-old Dalit girl was raped and strangled to death on 14th August, 2020, in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh (UP). In the afternoon ...
