Udupi, Oct 9: Social activist and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Sunday exposed the terrible face of Gujarat model of development, which has been a matter of pride for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Addressing thousands of people at the valedictory of Chalo Udupi' rally, Mr Mevani, who had recently led a historic Dalit rally in Una, revealed that the members of so called lower caste are facing indiscrimination, atrocity and social boycott across Gujarat.
“Thousands of incidents of atrocities against Dalits take place in Gujarat every year. Such atrocities continued to rise during Narendra Modi's chief ministership which lasted for 13 years. There are more than 55,000 Dalits who are still engaged in the work of scavenging. One lakh sanitation workers who are still not getting minimum wages,” he said.
“Dalits in 119 villages in Gujarat are living under police protection. In 55 villages Dalits are facing complete social boycott. In 2014 alone 74 Dalit women were brutally raped,” he said adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi neither visited them not tried to solve their problems.
The 29-year-old leader, who has shown a stubborn stance, promising to escalate the protest to entire Gujarat if the government fails to provide 5 acres of land to landless Dalits, said that Dalits in Karnataka too are deprived of lands. “Neither BJP nor Congress governments gave lands to Dalits,” he said.
Calling upon the people of backward classes, Dalits and minorities to be unitedly fight for their rights and not to be fooled by the false promises of the politicians again and again, Mr Mevani said that the fight of suppressed people should not be confined only against the cow vigilantes.
“We should fight against fake encounter killings and other atrocities too. Land is our right. Without land, the community has no power. Ambanis and Adanis are getting lands, but farmers and Dalits are being fooled. Health and education are also our rights. This movement should grow bigger,” he said. More details are awaited.
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The time has neared for repealing the true face of BJP and Modi clean governance.
At least when hearing it from a Gujarati hindu......some goons will understand.....the fake and feku raaj.....who is against all relegions...also fooling poor hindus
hundreds of years back...Jews came into INDIA ...saw Native INDIANS (Dalits) are innocent and easy to fall prey by cheating . so they cheated them writing stories in the name of religious scriptures . and do you think GOD is unjust towards its creations (Humans) ..these JEWS are today's Brahmins or upper castes ...the story was Brahmins from head Kshathriyas from Chest and Dalits from foot . ......ha ha what a story to fool innocent Dalits of that time /........come on Jignesh....we are with you......break silence ...together we can build Jew free oh sorry Brahmin free India ( Fascist Brahmins)
Few Dalits still did not recognise this tactics of Cheddis using them as foot soldiers... Appreciate JIgnesh courage in speaking and waking up the Dalit brothers of cheddi deception...
When U fight the evil.. God's help comes... dont worry... have trust in God.
Dalits are foot soldiers of bajrang dal in gujarath and Karnataka killing Muslims in anti Muslim riots engineered by RSS .
Yes its time to expose the cheddis
Yes its time to break our silence...
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