By means of PTI
JAIPUR: Miffed over circumstances of alleged atrocities on Dalits, Congress MLA Pana Chand Meghwal on Monday despatched his resignation to Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot, announcing he does now not have the appropriate to stick as an MLA if he can not offer protection to the rights of his group.
The advance comes two days after the dying of a Dalit boy who was once allegedly crushed by means of a faculty instructor in Jalore for touching a consuming water pot.
“Once we fail to give protection to the rights of our group. We haven’t any proper to stay at the submit. After paying attention to my inside voice, I renounce from the submit of the MLA, in order that I will serve the group with none place,” the MLA from Baran-Atru constituency mentioned his resignation letter.
Meghwal mentioned despite the fact that the rustic is celebrating seventy fifth anniversary of Independence, atrocities on Dalits and the opposite disadvantaged categories proceed.
“I’m harm having a look on the atrocities. I will not categorical my ache in phrases, the way in which my group is being tortured,” he mentioned.
“Dalits are being killed for consuming water from a pot, wearing a moustache or using a mare right through a marriage. The judicial procedure is stalled and case recordsdata are handed from one desk to the opposite. Circumstances of atrocities in opposition to Dalits are on the upward thrust in the previous couple of years. It kind of feels there is not any one to give protection to the rights of Dalits given by means of the Charter,” he mentioned.
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“In lots of the circumstances lodged by means of Dalits, the police post the overall record. Many a instances, I’ve raised such circumstances within the state meeting however no motion was once taken by means of the police,” Meghwal rued.
In the meantime, to probe the dying of the boy who was once crushed by means of his instructor, the state’s Scheduled Castes and Schheduled Tribes Fee chairman Khiladi Lal Bairwa arrived in Jalore on Monday.
Indra Kumar, 9, was once crushed up within the faculty on July 20.
He died right through remedy at a clinic in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Saturday.
The accused instructor, Chail Singh, 40, has been arrested.
The state govt has introduced a reduction of Rs 5 lakh for the sufferer’s circle of relatives.
JAIPUR: Miffed over circumstances of alleged atrocities on Dalits, Congress MLA Pana Chand Meghwal on Monday despatched his resignation to Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot, announcing he does now not have the appropriate to stick as an MLA if he can not offer protection to the rights of his group.
The advance comes two days after the dying of a Dalit boy who was once allegedly crushed by means of a faculty instructor in Jalore for touching a consuming water pot.
“Once we fail to give protection to the rights of our group. We haven’t any proper to stay at the submit. After paying attention to my inside voice, I renounce from the submit of the MLA, in order that I will serve the group with none place,” the MLA from Baran-Atru constituency mentioned his resignation letter.
Meghwal mentioned despite the fact that the rustic is celebrating seventy fifth anniversary of Independence, atrocities on Dalits and the opposite disadvantaged categories proceed.
“I’m harm having a look on the atrocities. I will not categorical my ache in phrases, the way in which my group is being tortured,” he mentioned.
“Dalits are being killed for consuming water from a pot, wearing a moustache or using a mare right through a marriage. The judicial procedure is stalled and case recordsdata are handed from one desk to the opposite. Circumstances of atrocities in opposition to Dalits are on the upward thrust in the previous couple of years. It kind of feels there is not any one to give protection to the rights of Dalits given by means of the Charter,” he mentioned.
READ HERE | Dalit boy dying: Mayawati calls for President’s Rule in Rajasthan
“In lots of the circumstances lodged by means of Dalits, the police post the overall record. Many a instances, I’ve raised such circumstances within the state meeting however no motion was once taken by means of the police,” Meghwal rued.
In the meantime, to probe the dying of the boy who was once crushed by means of his instructor, the state’s Scheduled Castes and Schheduled Tribes Fee chairman Khiladi Lal Bairwa arrived in Jalore on Monday.
Indra Kumar, 9, was once crushed up within the faculty on July 20.
He died right through remedy at a clinic in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Saturday.
The accused instructor, Chail Singh, 40, has been arrested.
The state govt has introduced a reduction of Rs 5 lakh for the sufferer’s circle of relatives.
