Karnal: A day after Union minister Kumari Selja and some Congress leaders attacked him over "tardy implementation of Centre policies for the uplift of Dalits", Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said those "in air conditioned rooms should personally visit" the villages to see the development. Hooda said that those sitting in air conditioned rooms in Delhi could not see how many plots have been allotted to the beneficiaries belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes-A and those living Below the Poverty Line and how many schemes have been implemented for their welfare.
Speaking at 'Dalit awareness sammelan' in Karnal on Friday, Selja, Birender Singh and another senior Congress leader Ishwar Singh had launched a veiled attack on the state government for tardy implementation of policies and programmes of the Centre for the uplift of the Dalits. Selja had expressed apprehensions over the implementation of 'Priyadarshini Awas Yojna', saying "it might not meet the same fate as did the other schemes like the 100 square metre plots for the poor".
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02:20 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Lucknow: Upset over UP government's decision to allow Dalit memorials constructed during previous Mayawati regime to be used for cultural functions, BSP today demandedimposition of President's rule in the state. A delegation of BSP leaders met Governor BL Joshi and handed him a memorandum, stating that the move was in violation of High Court and Supreme Court orders. "The use of land in Dalit memorials for marriage and other events...
03:55 PM, May 27, 2013
Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati's dream projects, including memorials and parks in the name of Dalit icons in the state capital, would now witness marriages and cultural events with the Akhilesh government deciding to use the space for public purposes. "Yes...the decision has been taken in this regard. It was in the Samajwadi Party's election manifesto to utilise areas of these memorials and parks for public purposes. By doing so we...
12:25 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday sought a response from Haryana's director general of police and Kaithal police chief following media reports that a Dalit boy was assaulted by a man who was part of a group which had attacked Dalits earlier as well. The apex human rights panel has sought reports from the two officials on the issue within a month. The NHRC's direction came...
05:40 AM, May 22, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that the state government will do everything possible under the law in the Dalit Memorial scam case in which close aides of BSP chief Mayawati have been indicted. While Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta NK Mehrotra had said that there is no evidence against Mayawati in the Dalit Memorial scam, he had recommended that the money should be recovered from former ministers Nasimuddin...
03:40 PM, May 21, 2013
Lucknow: The ruling Samajwadi Party on Monday said that all those indicted by Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta, for syphoning off public money in construction of memorials during the BSP regime, would be punished according to the law. In a statement issued here, SP spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said that Lokayukta, vigilance and CBI were probing scams of the previous Mayawati regime and the results were appalling. "All records of misuse of the...
01:55 AM, May 21, 2013
Lucknow: In a huge setback for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, the state government has named the BSP chief's key confidant in its report on the Dalit Memorial Scam and asked for a Rs 1,400 crore compensation. The UP Lokayukta, NK Mehrotra, has named Mayawati's key aide former minister Nasimuddin Siddiqui and Mayawati's former right hand man Babu Singh Kushwaha as the main accused in the scam. Both the...
04:00 PM, May 20, 2013
It was an extremely sultry afternoon by Bangalore standards. The Congress office on Queens's road, deserted till the second half of the counting day, was ...
06:58 AM, May 14, 2013
Gulbarga: A "flying squad" of the Election Commission on Saturday subjected Mayawati to checking for a second time in quick succession, following which an angry BSP supremo hit out at the poll watchdog, playing the Dalit card. As soon as Mayawati, who is in Gulbarga for campaigning for the May 5 assembly poll, landed by helicopter at a helipad on the outskirts of the taluk headquarters town of Jewargi in...
07:59 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Accusing the government of being "apathetic" towards dalit issues, Lok Janshakti Party and Dalit Sena will hold a nationwide agitation in August 2013 to demand reservation for scheduled castes and OBCs in private jobs, judiciary and promotions. "We have decided to hold a nationwide agitation on August 9. We have been demanding reservation for dalits in private sector, judiciary and promotion but the government is completely apathetic to...
01:57 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Rewari: A 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly molested and raped by three youths in Rewari, Haryana on Saturday night. The accused - Mukul, Rajesh and Shri Kant - were arrested on Monday, police said. The class VIII student had left her house at Nangal Teju village, which lies in the vicinity of Dhani Jetpur village, where the accused hail from, to attend to nature's call when the three overpowered her...
07:41 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday hit out at Congress for doing "nothing for Dalits" in the country and "using" them as mere "vote bank". "Congress ruled the country for 54 years out of the 65 years since independence. This is not little time, but it made no effort to lift your status," Singh said while addressing a gathering on the occasion of BR Ambedkar's 122nd birth anniversary....
03:58 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh governor BL Joshi and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday extended their good wishes to the people on the eve of 122nd birth anniversary of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar. In his message, the governor said Ambedkar dedicated his entire life in the service of the deprived sections of society. His services towards the mankind will never be forgotten. The Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that Ambedkar struggled...
07:45 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Alwar: The family of a Dalit woman who was gangraped by a group of men in Alwar district of Rajasthan has been attacked by the accused. Eight people have been injured and there is tension in the area following the attack in Tijara in Alwar district. The police have set up a temporary picket near the victim's house. According to the woman she was gangraped two days ago by some...
02:57 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday directed the revenue department to provide land by this fiscal to all Mahadalit families in the state for housing. Presiding over a high-level meeting, he directed Principal Secretary (Revenue) C Ashok Bardhan to ensure it. For those Mahadalit families which have been given land but could not construct houses, an action plan should be prepared by a panel headed by the Development...
04:08 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Congress on Sunday appointed a young dalit leader Ashok Choudhary, considered close to Rahul Gandhi, as the new PCC chief of Bihar, two and a half years after Mehboob Ali Qaiser resigned from the post following the drubbing in the last assembly elections. Congress President Sonia Gandhi has appointed Ashok Choudhary as president of the Bihar unit of the party, AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said. ...
03:15 AM, Apr 01, 2013
A police officer in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh not only insulted and humiliated a rape victim but also used foul language against her. The police officer who allegedly humiliated the victim has been identified as Additional Superintendent of Police Keshav Chandra Goswami. ...
04:47 PM, Mar 22, 2013
A Dalit engineering student, recently booked in an eve teasing case, was on Thursday night hacked to death by a gang near Tirunelveli, police said. ...
02:23 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Every Union home minister of the country has had to live literally in the shadow of the first occupant of the post. In the stairway ...
12:29 AM, Feb 22, 2013
The NHRC on Wednesday sought a report from the Bihar government over the denial of water to Dalits by upper caste people in Kishanganj. ...
04:15 AM, Feb 21, 2013
