Una Protests

On February 14, members of the Dalit community have called a massive protest rally against the Home Ministry's decision to cancel the FCRA permit or the license to receive donations from overseas for Navsarjan, one of Gujarats most prominent Dalit organisations. Last July, Navsarjan had been involved in the campaign for justice after the Una incide...

Cashing in on the Dalit uprising in Gujarat after the Una flogging incident, the state Congress on Friday decided to launch 'Dalit Swadhikar Andolan' from October 2 against the BJP-led state government.

The Social Justice Ministry has proposed release of 90 per cent of the total allocated funds to Gujarat for various welfare schemes for Dalits, two months after seven men of the community were flogged by cow vigilantes' in the state leading to widespread protests there.

50 Congress legislators were suspended for a day from the Gujarat Assembly after they stages a demonstration and disrupted the proceedings over the Una Dalit flogging incident. During a discussion on Dalit atrocities, Congress members rushed to the floor of the assembly holding placards accusing the BJP government in the state of being "anti-Dalit....

The signs of a brutal assault are all too visible on the body of the 15-year-old Dalit boy. It has been more than 48 hours since he was attacked in his village by two young men infuriated at his family's decision to boycott lifting carcases of animals but he is still in shock.

The protest rally by Dalits in Una in Gujarat on the Independence Day has come in for praise from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who said it was the people's response to the "farce" of Sangh Parivar's love for Dalits and that the movement had far reaching consequences in national politics.

A court at Una in Gir Somnath district on Wednesday remanded 15 accused in police custody in connection with an attack on a group of Dalits, who were returning to Bhavnagar after attending a protest rally in Una on August 15.

"69 years ago, India woke up to freedom. Today, 69 years later we are freeing ourselves. It's not the Angrez (British) we are fighting; our civil disobedience is against our own society's caste oppression," said an emotional Laljibhai Chavada after he took a dramatic pledge along with thousands of other Dalits in Una yesterday to renounce their cas...

Balubhai Sarvaiya, whose two sons were among the four young Dalits thrashed in Una after wrongly being accused of killing a cow, needed a group of policemen to escort him to his village last evening.

Around eight Dalits were severely injured when a mob allegedly attacked them and 12 of their community members at Samter village near Una, while they were returning home after attending a protest rally in Una town of Gir Somnath district this evening.

Radhika Vemula, whose young son Rohith committed suicide at a university in Hyderabad in January, held top honours as she unfurled the national flag this morning at the grounds of a large state-run school in Una.

A foot march by hundreds protesting the recent atrocities against Dalits at the hands of cow vigilantes reached Una in Gujarat Sunday evening covering 380 kilometres.

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.

A man who had attempted suicide at Dhoraji in Rajkot during the statewide protests against thrashing of Dalits in Gujarat's Una by self-styled cow vigilantes, died at a government hospital today, police said.

On February 14, members of the Dalit community have called a massive protest rally against the Home Ministry's decision to cancel the FCRA permit or the license to receive donations from overseas for Navsarjan, one of Gujarats most prominent Dalit organisations. Last July, Navsarjan had been involved in the campaign for justice after the Una incide...

Cashing in on the Dalit uprising in Gujarat after the Una flogging incident, the state Congress on Friday decided to launch 'Dalit Swadhikar Andolan' from October 2 against the BJP-led state government.

The Social Justice Ministry has proposed release of 90 per cent of the total allocated funds to Gujarat for various welfare schemes for Dalits, two months after seven men of the community were flogged by cow vigilantes' in the state leading to widespread protests there.

50 Congress legislators were suspended for a day from the Gujarat Assembly after they stages a demonstration and disrupted the proceedings over the Una Dalit flogging incident. During a discussion on Dalit atrocities, Congress members rushed to the floor of the assembly holding placards accusing the BJP government in the state of being "anti-Dalit....

The signs of a brutal assault are all too visible on the body of the 15-year-old Dalit boy. It has been more than 48 hours since he was attacked in his village by two young men infuriated at his family's decision to boycott lifting carcases of animals but he is still in shock.

The protest rally by Dalits in Una in Gujarat on the Independence Day has come in for praise from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who said it was the people's response to the "farce" of Sangh Parivar's love for Dalits and that the movement had far reaching consequences in national politics.

A court at Una in Gir Somnath district on Wednesday remanded 15 accused in police custody in connection with an attack on a group of Dalits, who were returning to Bhavnagar after attending a protest rally in Una on August 15.

"69 years ago, India woke up to freedom. Today, 69 years later we are freeing ourselves. It's not the Angrez (British) we are fighting; our civil disobedience is against our own society's caste oppression," said an emotional Laljibhai Chavada after he took a dramatic pledge along with thousands of other Dalits in Una yesterday to renounce their cas...

Balubhai Sarvaiya, whose two sons were among the four young Dalits thrashed in Una after wrongly being accused of killing a cow, needed a group of policemen to escort him to his village last evening.

Around eight Dalits were severely injured when a mob allegedly attacked them and 12 of their community members at Samter village near Una, while they were returning home after attending a protest rally in Una town of Gir Somnath district this evening.

Radhika Vemula, whose young son Rohith committed suicide at a university in Hyderabad in January, held top honours as she unfurled the national flag this morning at the grounds of a large state-run school in Una.

A foot march by hundreds protesting the recent atrocities against Dalits at the hands of cow vigilantes reached Una in Gujarat Sunday evening covering 380 kilometres.

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.

A man who had attempted suicide at Dhoraji in Rajkot during the statewide protests against thrashing of Dalits in Gujarat's Una by self-styled cow vigilantes, died at a government hospital today, police said.