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 the demands," LJP Chief and Dalit Sena founder Ramvilas Paswan told PTI in Delhi. Dalit Sena, an organisation for emancipation and welfare of the backward section, was established by Paswan in 1983.
Earlier after inaugurating the national convention of Dalit Sena in Delhi, Paswan demanded that the sum allocated under Special Component Plan for scheduled castes should be judiciously spent for uplifting of the backward sections. "There have been instances when money allocated under this fund was diverted to other sectors. We demand that it should be used for dalits only," he said. Dalit Sena also demanded setting up of a dalit regiment in defence forces....
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01:57 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Patna: Protesting against the recent incidents of violence in Madhubani after the murder of a student there, workers of Opposition parties, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), organised a Bihar bandh on Monday and halted 12 trains and blocked several National Highway routes across the state. According to sources, the protesters stopped the Toofan Express and the Garib Rath at the Arrah station. Several passenger...
09:55 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Dal United(JD-U) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Friday announced their candidates for Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. Both parties have decided to contest all 403 seats in the state arguing that this will give a moral boost to their party cadres. Ram Vilas Pawan's LJP named 53 candidates on Friday in its third list taking the number of candidates announced so far to 341.JD-U released names... 
A dusky coolie from Varanasi railway station aspires to enter Uttar Pradesh Assembly from his native Deoria district ... 
