In a statement here on Thursday, the former UP chief minister recounted how a young Dalit man was beaten to death in Rae Bareli and an elderly Dalit man was humiliated in Kakori, Lucknow.
"The BJP and RSS only want Dalit votes but have no intention to defend them or give them safe space and due social ambience in society", the three-timer ex-CM Gehlot said.
He alleged that the BSP's rally in Lucknow today was funded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the sole motive of dividing Dalit votes ahead of the Bihar elections.
According to All India Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba, 22.7 lakh women's names were deleted from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has warned the PDA (Backward, Dalit and Minority) families to be fully aware of the upcoming caste census so that the government does not fake the final figures.
Incidentally, Hema Nayak (60) was elected unopposed as sarpanch of the reserved (SC) Badapalli gram panchayat under Khallikote block of the district in 2017. If reports are to be believed, she visits the panchayat office on compulsion.
The election of the deputy speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly is due on October 18.
A heavy deploymYogi Adityanath, Dalit, murderent of police was made in the village to prevent any fallout of the incident.
Sources say Amarinder Singh in his letter had said, that he will not contest under Navjot Singh Sidhu if he is elevated to the top organizational post of the state.
The incident took place last week and the police booked eight family members, including three women, on the victim's complaint. Three of them were arrested on Tuesday night.
