Click to play videoNew Delhi: A report now shows that Dalits in UP are perhaps the most unfortunate. And the OBCs have emerged as the group most in conflict with them.
There is more to it than that meets the eye – the latest report of the National Scheduled Caste Commission tabulates atrocities against the Dalits but the data coming in from the most populous state Uttar Pradesh speaks a lot about the changed socio-political scenario in the state.
National SC/ST Commission acting chairman Fakirchand Vaghela says, “All this is not being done by the traditional zamidars or the Brahmins. But there the conflict is between the SC and the OBC it’s a fight for the land."
But the figures also indicate towards a slow social churning at the ground level in the Hindi heartland and it is clearly manifested in the political field as well with the SP and BSP emerging as the two major players in the state politics in the last ten years.
The report has borrowed extensively from the latest records of the National Crime Records Bureau. UP has also reported maximum cases of crimes against Dalits followed by Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
Crime against Dalits in UP has been increasing over the last three years and the state also has the maximum number cases against Dalits which are pending trials.
UP Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav says, “There is no atrocities. This is false propaganda. The report is also false.”
It is no longer the Brahmin-Thakur combine that is keeping the SCs at the bottom run of the caste ladder. The Yadavs and Kurmis must now take the blame for Dalit's miseries and for a chief minister going to polls in the next four months these figures would certainly be a cause of a worry.
With Abhishek Patni
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