MANGALORE: Mavalli Shankar, State president of the Karnataka Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (Ambedkar wada), has criticised the Bantwal police for failing to provide justice to Sridhar, a Dalit labourer from Peraje in Kodagu who was allegedly stripped and paraded in Bantwal by the members of the Bajrang Dal. The police had booked a case against the accused over a year after the incident, they said.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Mr. Shankar said that Dalits in the State were falling victim to atrocities committed by activists of various Sangh Parivar outfits after the BJP came to power.
‘Latest example'
“The anti-cattle slaughter Bill is the latest example of atrocity that is even worse than physical assault and segregation. The State Government intends to starve Dalits to death,” he said.
The samiti would launch a Statewide agitation against the Bill, he said and threatened to repeat the action of preparing beef biriyani near the Vidhana Soudha if it was passed. Ridiculing the Chief Minister's claim that Dalits in the State were in favour of the controversial Bill, he said, “Mr. Yeddyurappa should not speak to a handful of Dalits who have been brainwashed by the Sangh Parivar. Let him take the view of the millions of Dalits in the State and the country.”
Seer criticised
Criticising the head of the Pejawar Math Visvesha Tirtha for visiting the houses of Dalits in Mysore, he said, “Instead of making such superficial gestures, let him try and amend the discriminatory aspects of his religion.”
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