Dalit Community

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Thursday said that Dalits who become MPs and MLAs through "casteist parties" like the BJP and the Congress will only serve their interests rather than those of the community.

21-year-old Gokulraj, who worked as an engineer and belongs to the Dalit community, was killed in 2015 for his relationship with an upper-caste woman.

BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday alleged that people, especially those belonging to minority communities, are living in fear under the BJP government and promised that her party will work to ensure social justice to all if voted to power.

Dalit students at a government school in Uttarakhand's Champawat district refused to eat mid-day meals cooked by an upper-caste woman after a cook from the Scheduled Caste community was sacked allegedly following protests over her caste.

Balwant Singh has been accused of blaming the Dalit community for his loss and beating up two people from the community, Anil Kumar and Manjeet Kumar, as they allegedly did not vote for him.

BSP chiefMayawati on Monday charged that the Samajwadi Party was contemptuous of great men born among Dalits and backwards and said these communities should not expect anything from Akhilesh Yadav's party.

The BJP launched a scathing attack on Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday over their silence on atrocities against the Dalits in Congress-ruled states.

Reservation is being ensured for Dalits, STs, backward classes and the poor in the general category, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in his Independence Day address and stressed that hand-holding of deprived communities is necessary.

Former Union minister Vijay Sampla took charge as the chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) today and said he would adopt a "three-tier priority to resolve all the issues being faced by the Dalit community".

The Rajasthan High Court on Monday ordered the police to take "no coercive action" against Bollywood filmmaker Prakash Jha over an FIR lodged against him allegedly for hurting Dalit sentiments by the "objectionable" depiction of the community in his web series "Ashram".

The Bahujan Samaj Party on Saturday supported the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha and lashed out at the Congress for its opposition to the government's measures that it said are in "support" of the poor, Dalits and other deprived communities in the union territory.

A 25-year-old Dalit man with an unspecified mental illness was beaten to death by two of his friends - who were from OBC communities - for touching their food during a private event at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district on Monday

Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan has trashed suggestions that he parted ways with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) because of differences over seat-sharing for the Bihar assembly election, and accused the Chief Minister of harming the Dalit community by creating a sub-group of Mahadalits.

Violence broke out briefly in Uttar Pradesh's Agra today afternoon as members of the Valmiki community clashed with police over the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman from the state's Hathras district last month

Hitting out at the Uttar Pradesh government for its handling of the alleged rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman from Hathras and for "forceful cremation" of her body without her family's consent, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the BJP of using the Dalit community for votes and then torturing them.

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Thursday said that Dalits who become MPs and MLAs through "casteist parties" like the BJP and the Congress will only serve their interests rather than those of the community.

21-year-old Gokulraj, who worked as an engineer and belongs to the Dalit community, was killed in 2015 for his relationship with an upper-caste woman.

BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday alleged that people, especially those belonging to minority communities, are living in fear under the BJP government and promised that her party will work to ensure social justice to all if voted to power.

Dalit students at a government school in Uttarakhand's Champawat district refused to eat mid-day meals cooked by an upper-caste woman after a cook from the Scheduled Caste community was sacked allegedly following protests over her caste.

Balwant Singh has been accused of blaming the Dalit community for his loss and beating up two people from the community, Anil Kumar and Manjeet Kumar, as they allegedly did not vote for him.

BSP chiefMayawati on Monday charged that the Samajwadi Party was contemptuous of great men born among Dalits and backwards and said these communities should not expect anything from Akhilesh Yadav's party.

The BJP launched a scathing attack on Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday over their silence on atrocities against the Dalits in Congress-ruled states.

Reservation is being ensured for Dalits, STs, backward classes and the poor in the general category, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in his Independence Day address and stressed that hand-holding of deprived communities is necessary.

Former Union minister Vijay Sampla took charge as the chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) today and said he would adopt a "three-tier priority to resolve all the issues being faced by the Dalit community".

The Rajasthan High Court on Monday ordered the police to take "no coercive action" against Bollywood filmmaker Prakash Jha over an FIR lodged against him allegedly for hurting Dalit sentiments by the "objectionable" depiction of the community in his web series "Ashram".

The Bahujan Samaj Party on Saturday supported the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha and lashed out at the Congress for its opposition to the government's measures that it said are in "support" of the poor, Dalits and other deprived communities in the union territory.

A 25-year-old Dalit man with an unspecified mental illness was beaten to death by two of his friends - who were from OBC communities - for touching their food during a private event at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district on Monday

Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan has trashed suggestions that he parted ways with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) because of differences over seat-sharing for the Bihar assembly election, and accused the Chief Minister of harming the Dalit community by creating a sub-group of Mahadalits.

Violence broke out briefly in Uttar Pradesh's Agra today afternoon as members of the Valmiki community clashed with police over the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman from the state's Hathras district last month

Hitting out at the Uttar Pradesh government for its handling of the alleged rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman from Hathras and for "forceful cremation" of her body without her family's consent, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the BJP of using the Dalit community for votes and then torturing them.