Gujarat Dalit Agitation

A few hours after Hardik Patel, 24, texted reporters to say he was busy and so could not accept an invitation to meet Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today, Congress leaders said the two had met at an Ahmedabad hotel. Close associates of Hardik Patel, the face of the Patidar or Patel agitation for reservation in government jobs and colleges, a...

In the wake of Dalit agitation in Gujarat, the state government has announced setting up of 16 special courts across the state for the speedy trial of cases under SC/ST atrocities Act.

The rapidly-growing Dalit agitation in the Gujarat has found a face - 35-year-old Jignesh Mewani. The journalist-turned activist hasn't halted his Una Chalo Dalit Padyatra (a Dalit foot march to Una), despite running a viral fever for the last two days.

On a day a Dalit man, who had attempted suicide to protest the thrashing of four Dalit tannery workers by self-styled cow vigilantes in Gujarat earlier this month, died, members of the community organised a large congregation in Ahmedabad to send a message to the state government.

Thirty years after the Patedars or Patels of Gujarat took to the streets protesting against reservation for Dalits, Adivasis and Other Backward Castes in government jobs and educational institutions, they are agitating once again.

A few hours after Hardik Patel, 24, texted reporters to say he was busy and so could not accept an invitation to meet Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today, Congress leaders said the two had met at an Ahmedabad hotel. Close associates of Hardik Patel, the face of the Patidar or Patel agitation for reservation in government jobs and colleges, a...

In the wake of Dalit agitation in Gujarat, the state government has announced setting up of 16 special courts across the state for the speedy trial of cases under SC/ST atrocities Act.

The rapidly-growing Dalit agitation in the Gujarat has found a face - 35-year-old Jignesh Mewani. The journalist-turned activist hasn't halted his Una Chalo Dalit Padyatra (a Dalit foot march to Una), despite running a viral fever for the last two days.

On a day a Dalit man, who had attempted suicide to protest the thrashing of four Dalit tannery workers by self-styled cow vigilantes in Gujarat earlier this month, died, members of the community organised a large congregation in Ahmedabad to send a message to the state government.

Thirty years after the Patedars or Patels of Gujarat took to the streets protesting against reservation for Dalits, Adivasis and Other Backward Castes in government jobs and educational institutions, they are agitating once again.