“This is sad. They will also be provided financial help”, he said.
Advertisement
“In Agra, a Dalit was beaten to death on the road, we did not go there to spoil the atmosphere”, the Gehlot said. “All those who raise their voice against Modi’s ideology is suppressed”.
“What is this fight?”
He said, “This is a fight between two ideologies”.
“On one side there is Gandhi ji (Mahatma Gandhi), Sardar Patel (Vallabhbhai Patel), Nehru ji (Jawaharlal Nehru) and Babasaheb Ambedkar ji (B.R. Ambedkar)”.
Gandhi referred to the work done by Congress-led Manmohan Singh government in the state and said “sadly, this is no longer the case”. It feels as if not just the Dalit community but the Gujarat government is oppressing various communities in state. There the youth had committed suicide. India’s parliament has also been in uproar over the issue, with opposition MPs accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of failing to protect India’s Dalits. “The people have now begun saying that Modiji has become arrogant in power and he is not able to hear the grievances of the Dalits and the poor”, said Surjewala.
HM Singh also added that the government is bearing all the medical expenses of the Dalit youths, who were injured in the incident and the victims undergoing treatment at various government hospitals in Una, Junagadh and Rajkot. She told them that the government has taken all measures to ensure that the victims get justice. “You seemed to have made up your mind to walk out”, he said before reeling out figures of such cases during the UPA government to make his point.
The Congress Vice President met Balubhai Sarvaiya and his family members, after landing at the nearby Union Territory of Diu.
Jitu, 20, is an engineering student and the only educated member of the family. Arguably, the order of the apex court to Rahul Gandhi has once again brought home the fact that no one is above the law of the land and will not be spared for speaking irresponsibly in public space.
“We demanded from him that those who were involved in the incident should be given exemplary punishment and kept behind bars for their entire life or else they will once again do this to someone else”, he said.
Advertisement
Bandh was largely observed in Amreli and Junagadh cities of Saurashtra region, including some other small towns like Dhoraji and Dhrol with some incidents of damaging buses and stone-pelting reported during protest. “It appears government here is trying to suppress other community members also”, Kejriwal said.
