A separate state is the least the Dalits deserve after thousands of years of persecution by so-called upper caste Hindu’s.
Dalits demand separate state
Swiping at Narendra Modi for their sorry plight, Dalits, a socially backward-class community from the wrong side of the tracks, have demanded a separate state for the underprivileged and threatened mass conversions as well as a statewide agitation after October 15 if the chief minister did not give them a square deal. Siddharth Parmar, a Dalit MLA from BJP, won a loud applause from the 25,000 Dalit men and women at a convention in Rajkot when he said the community, which had become desperate after Modi discontinued countless Dalit welfare schemes launched by Keshubhai Patel, would be forced to turn violent in the days to come. “Modi squanders state funds for insignificant road shows but has no money for Dalits and I am ready to kick my membership of the legislature for saying this,” he said at the conclave attended by Dalit leaders of all parties where as many as 35 resolutions were passed.
So angry was the mood of Dalits that L.K. Advani’s massive rally was called off yesterday at Somnath and a worried Modi also stayed away from the religious programme at the temple town from where the BJP veteran had begun his Ram Rath Yatra in 1990. One of the resolutions sent to even the United Nations Organisation, the prime minister, the president and Modi wanted the federal government to carve out a separate region called ‘Dalitistan’ to realise the dream of the messiah of India’s 260 million Dalits, Dr B.R. Ambedkar. Others related to reservation in jobs, colleges and agricultural sector.