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egime. Taking a dig at BSP supremo Mayawati, the party alleged that construction of statues, monuments and parks led to price rise and corruption. “Dailts will not be benefitted by these structures. Incidents of their harssments and molestations are reported daily which suggests that law and order situation has reached its lowest ebb,” Chowdhary added. The SP alleged that nearly one lakh party workers were tortured by police at the behest of BSP leaders. “The law and order situation can be judged best by the fact that when the residence of a leader was being set afire, police remained mute spectators. Even the CM’s residence is situated just a few metres away from the scene of the incident,” he added. Meanwhile, SP state unit chief Akhilesh Yadav has appointed over a dozen district and city unit heads of the party on Saturday. The list of the newly-appointed district heads included Ravindra Pal Singh (Aligarh), Devendra Agrawal (Hathras), Chand Ahmed Khan (Farrukhabad City), Aslam Sher Khan (Jhansi City), Akhilesh Yadav (Azamgarh), Shahab Ansari (Gorakhpur City), Raj Kapoor Yadav (Basti), SP Yadav (Balrampur), Raghuveer Prasad Yadav (Sultanpur), Qaiser Ali Quddusi (Moradabad City), Aulad Ali (Ghaziabad District), Ram Kishore Agrawal (Ghaziabad City), Ishwa Mavi (Baghpat), Chitranjan Swaroop (Muzaffarnagar District), Saleem Akhter (Muzaffarnagar City) and Samarjeet Singh (Fatehpur). Akhilesh after his appoinment as party’s state chief on June 3, reconstitued committees in 55 districts. However, most of the previous office-bearers were reappointed by him. (Pioneer 19/7/09) “I wanted to convey Dalit women’s plight” (2) Moradabad: UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Saturday walked free from jail here after securing interim bail in the case of derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati. She regretted her controversial statement, but said Ms. Mayawati had no right to continue in office. “I regret that one word I used against the Chief Minister ... I crossed the limits but the context in which it was said should be understood. My purpose was to convey the plight of dalit women [who were raped] and the woman Chief Minister should have understood this ,” she told journalists on coming out of jail. She attacked Mayawati for filing a case against her and claimed the assault on her residence was state-sponsored. In New Delhi, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said the attack on Ms. Joshi’s residence took place at the behest of Ms. Mayawati He did not expect justice to be done in the case and demanded a CBI inquiry . Ms. Joshi said her struggle on women’s issues would continue and she was prepared to go to jail a hundred times if it helped . The UPCC chief said she agreed with what Congress president Sonia Gandhi said about her remarks, but added that her entire statement should be read because it referred to the problems faced by the oppressed women. It was unfortunate that the State government applied certain provisions of the law which should not have been used. “See, I have got bail within two days.” Ms. Joshi said it was sad that the administration had behaved this way with a family that had worked for decades for the sake of minorities, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. She said she had no personal fight with Ms. Mayawati, but her struggle on issues facing women would continue. — PTI (The Hindu 19/7/09) ‘I’ve always worked for Dalits... have a Dalit cook’ (2) A day after being released on interim bail, UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Sunday alleged “maltreatment” in the Moradabad District Jail, saying that she was treated like an “ordinary criminal” there and not a political prisoner. Countering allegations of having made derogatory remarks against Dalits, she said that since 1947, there had been a Dalit and a Muslim cook in her house. Joshi met Digvijay Singh in Delhi on Sunday, and was granted permission to launch a “movement” in Uttar Pradesh demanding a CBI inquiry into the vandalism and arson at her Lucknow house hours after her controversial speech on Mayawati. She is likely to call on Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday. Joshi, who will be seeing the damage to her house for the first time on Monday, told The Indian Express: “In all my life, if anybody can prove that I ever used a word against a Dalit, I will quit public life. My party, my family and I have always worked for the uplift of Dalits and social harmony. Since 1947, my family has had a Dalit and a Muslim cook. Even today, in my house in Allahabad, I have a Dalit cook.” (Indian Express 20/7/09) Anti-Dalit crimes on rise in Uttar Pradesh, or simply more FIRs? (2) Lucknow, July 17 : Uttar Pradesh has witnessed a steep rise in crimes against Dalits in the first six months of year - more so after Chief Minister Mayawati ordered police to pay special attention to these offences. However, police attribute the rise to Dalits now feeling free to report crimes against them. According to the data made available by Inspector General of Police (Crime) G.P.Sharma and the State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB), there has been a noticeable increase in various crimes against Dalits in the past six months. As many as 139 cases of murder and rape of Dalits were lodged across the state
from Jan 1 to April 30. The figure from May 1 till date for these crimes was 121. The grievous crimes this year till date were 227 while other cognizable offences totalled 1,487. However, the police have different take on the rise in the crime graph. "The order issued by the government to pay special attention to such cases has made the police more attentive towards the complaints related to Dalits," Additional Director General of Police Brijlal said. He said there is a provision for paying compensation between Rs.10,000 to Rs.100,000 to a Dalit subjected to any crime under the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act but the members of the community were still unaware of this, he said. "However, the chief minister's direction to the senior police officials to attend to all such complaints personally and make them aware about their rights has made the difference," he said, adding Dalits no longer fear entering the police station to lodge complaints. In a meeting of senior police officers May 24, Mayawati ordered the superintendent of police in all districts to personally attend each and every complaint by a Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes member and also spread awareness about the compensation they were entitled to. The state's Director General of Police, Vikram Singh was asked to visit each spot where a Dalit's murder or rape takes place across the state. Since then, Singh has visited 18 such places, including the four spots mentioned by state Congress unit president Rita Bahuguna Joshi in her remarks in Moradabad Wednesday, which landed her in jail. Singh visited rape victims in Gautam Budhha Nagar, Meerut, Mathura and Auraiya districts July 9 to get a first-hand account of the police action in their cases. The DGP then ordered the suspension of three police personnel, including an inspector, for delay in lodging complaint of a deaf and mute rape victim in Gautam Buddha Nagar. The incident took place July 7. Singh met the victim and handed over a cheque of Rs.25,000. He also visited Ading village in Mathura district where a 14-year-old Dalit girl was killed earlier this month. Police have pointed out specific regions of the state where such cases are high. "Districts like Hardoi, Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sultanpur, Azamgarh, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Etawah, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budhha Nagar record the maximum number of cases," said Sharma, IG (Crime). However, he said he could cite any reason for this. (New Kerala 17/7/09) Dalit beaten to death for stealing vegetables (2) Lucknow: A Dalit, who was brutally thrashed allegedly by two farmers for stealing vegetables from their fields, succumbed to injuries, leading to suspension of three policemen for not filing an FIR in the case, police said on Tuesday. Srikrishna Bahelia was badly beaten allegedly by Subash Chandra and Sitaram on July 18 for stealing vegetables from their field. But it was only after he died that police swung into action and lodged an FIR (The Hindu 22/7/09) Poverty deals a blow to Dalit girl’s dreams (2) CHENNAI: The long cherished dream of a young Dalit girl to become a doctor has been shattered as her poor widowed mother could not mobilise the money — Rs 2.25 lakh — to pay the fees at a private medical college in which she was allotted an MBBS seat under the government quota. Since V Revathy from Elavampattur in Villupuram district failed to pay the fees before the last day — July 23 — at the selffinancing college, Adhiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at Melmaruvathur, she lost the seat. Now, she can get admission only if the government selection committee issues a recommendation letter, Murugesan of the administrative office of the college told Express. Revathy, who stood first in the Class X examination in the local government higher secondary school, moved to the Mount Park School in Thiyagadurgam for her higher secondary, bagging a government scholarship. She scored 1105 marks out of 1200 in Class XII and her rank for medical admission was 331 in the Scheduled Castes category. “I wanted to make sure that nobody is denied proper medical treatment,” Revathy said. “I studied hard to get a medical seat but all that went in vain as the college authorities instructed us to either pay or get out” she told Express over phone from Elavampattur. “My mother, who is concerned about my education, is helpless as she earns just Rs 80 a day,” she said. Murugesan said the college had 97 seats under government quota and 53 seats under the management quota. He said Revathy was supposed to pay Rs 2.25 lakh to the college and another Rs 25,000 to the selection committee. Revathy had paid the initial amount (Rs 25,000) but not the fees to the college, he said. “We had to state our vacancy positions by 4 pm to the government. The girl has now lost the seat,” he said. Nagarajan, Revathy’s Maths teacher till Class VIII, said she always dreamt of becoming a doctor. Disappointed, Revathy said, “To realise your dreams, hard work is not enough. You need loads of cash too (Express Buzz 25/7/09)
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