Muzaffarnagar News: Dalit youth stabbed to death, blood-soaked body found in sugarcane field
Muzaffarnagar News: A Dalit youth was brutally stabbed to death on Saturday in the Kakrauli police station area of Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh. The youth’s body was recovered from a sugarcane field, bearing deep stab wounds. The incident has caused a stir in the area. The deceased has been identified as 29-year-old Sonu. Sonu’s body was found in a sugarcane field in Garhi Firozabad village, under the Kakrauli police station area, on Saturday. Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Aditya Bansal told reporters that the body bore multiple stab wounds. Sonu had left home after receiving a phone call Police recovered a blood-stained knife and the deceased’s motorcycle from the scene. According to ASP Bansal, Sonu had left home after receiving a phone call but never returned. The motive behind the murder and the identity of the attackers have not yet been established. Police have registered a case against unknown assailants and sent the body for post-mortem examination. ASP Bansal stated that an investigation has been launched and efforts are underway to identify the culprits. By Raghvendra Mishra Courtesy: Hindi News
Art exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademi features themes of dalit resilience, justice, equality, and nature
Chennai: The narrow lanes of Mint Street are compact, packed with houses, with broken compound walls plastered with movie posters. There are overflowing dustbins, drunk men sleeping on the platform, and women running their households. This was everyday life for dalit artist S Venkatesan, and is what has been translated in his work. “North Chennai has a strong influence on my work , especially the topics I choose matriarchal households, motherhood, marginalization by oppressors, and politics. Women are a fierce force and I can’t help but try to honour them through my work,” says Venkatesan, whose works are part of an ongoing art exhibition ‘Becoming: Weaving the Commons’ organized by Neelam Cultural Centre at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai. The exhibition also features dalit artist K Natarajan, who along with Venkatesan, explores themes of ecology, memory, and equality, as acts of reclamation. Venkatesan’s art captures landscapes of urban North Chennai, its workers, streets, grace, and melancholy in the ordinary. Natarajan’s work, rooted in Buddhism and dalit resilience, turns lived struggle into collective renewal. Venkatesan says, having lived in a 150sqft house with his family created a lasting impact on how he perceives things. “All my subjects are often cramped to the centre, while the rest of the canvas space is empty. When I look at my subject, I look at it multi-dimensionally,” he says. Growing up in the foothills of Jawadhu, Tiruvannamalai, Natarajan has always felt one with nature. His work has powerful themes with subtle imagery that reflect stories of forest preservation, role of women, man versus animal conflict, and the innocence of youth. “With women playing huge roles in preserving nature during the ongoing Sudan and Gaza genocides, and in Jaipur this year, where hundreds of women formed a human chain to protest plans to cut down more than 2,500 trees, I noticed how it’s women who stand in solidarity for nature,” he says. For him preserving nature is about fairness and justice. “My work is a way to reclaim what has been taken. The forest, the soil, and the women who protect them, appear in my work as signs of hope and continuity. Through them, I ask what it is to live in harmony when survival has become an act of resistance,” says Natarajan. The exhibition will be on display till Nov 2 . Courtesy : TOI Note: This news is originally published on https:/timesofindia.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Jogi burns invite over omission of dalit MP Mini Mata’s name
Raipur: The Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) has intensified its protest against the state govt, alleging the deliberate omission of Chhattisgarh’s first Dalit MP, Mini Mata’s name, from the invitation card for the new Assembly building’s inauguration. JCC(J) state President Amit Jogi, son of former CM late Ajit Jogi, burned the inauguration invitation card in protest, accusing the govt of insulting Chhattisgarhi pride, women’s empowerment, and Dalit representation by erasing Mini Mata’s legacy. He appealed to all MLAs and former MLAs to boycott the Prime Minister’s event if the name is not reinstated. “Today, as the state prepares to inaugurate a new Assembly building on its 25th foundation day, we received an invitation from Assembly Speaker Dr Raman Singh. The shocking and infuriating aspect is that the name ‘Mini Mata’ is not mentioned anywhere on this invitation card,” Jogi said. He termed the omission a “planned conspiracy or a grave error.” Courtesy : TOI Note: This news is originally published on https:/timesofindia.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Bihar Votes On Caste, Not Change: Dalits Still Left Out Of Power
The political foundation in Bihar is caste which carries the burden of its own class Bihar’s politics continues to be shaped by deep caste hierarchies where class and caste intersect, with Dalits remaining at the bottom of both social and economic structures. Despite their sizable population and history of political assertion, Dalits remain fragmented by sub-caste divisions and largely excluded from real power, even under leaders promising social justice. Ahead of the 2025 Assembly polls, Chirag Paswan’s LJP (RV) faces the challenge of expanding beyond its Paswan-Dalit base and balancing its alliance with the NDA against its claim of representing Dalit interests. The more things change in Bihar, the more they remain the same. Not because people are averse to change, but their level of acquiescence to the so-called ‘system’ is such that they accept, at the end of the day, the status-quo as something which has been ordained to them. This could be seen in the formation and the affectivity of the caste-based associations and groups. The power-relations, embedded in the caste-ties, controls impulses, emotions and motivations so firmly that any socio-cultural transformation is met either with oppression or political violence. The caste wars in Bihar are replete with the stories of tyranny and hope. Bihar is, to put it succinctly, a history of a ‘surrealistic tale of violence’, a politics of ‘an inversion of insurgent citizenship’, a sociology of the ‘construction of docile bodies through hegemony’ and an economics of ‘a behavioural irrationalism in the dismal rules of the game’. The stakes of State-power, caste and class essentially try to sustain, what Jeffrey Witsoe once remarked about Bihar, a ‘feudal democracy’. Typically, Bihar is a case of ‘class-in-caste’ politics, wherein the political foundation is caste which carries the burden of its own class. Tanvir Aeijaz Courtesy : Outlook India Note: This news is originally published on https:/outlookindia.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
The nightmarish Haryana MDU incident exposes how institutions treat Dalit employees
ThePrint view on the most important issues. The Haryana MDU horror shows how low we’ve fallen in treating women with dignity. It also exposes how institutions treat Dalit employees. Forcing three sanitation workers to give proof of menstruation is nightmarish. But the bigger tragedy is that such incidents barely stir public conscience or the state to course-correct. Courtesy : The Print Note: This news is originally published on https:/theprint.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Siddaramaiah’s camp to play Dalit CM card against DKS
DCM has assured high command that there will be no crisis in party if CM’s post is handed over to him. BENGALURU: The Dalit chief minister issue is likely to gain momentum as the Congress government completes two-and-a-half years in office on November 20 to counter DCM DK Shivakumar, who has been meeting close associates of senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, like Ambika Soni, to clinch the CM post. Shivakumar seems to have stuck to his strategy of reminding the high command about the reported agreement that was arrived at when the party came to power in 2023 about sharing of power between Siddaramaiah and him. He will insist that the high command keep its word, sources said. But it is to be seen if Dalit leaders, members from the Siddaramaiah’s coterie, would counter Shivakumar effectively. These leaders, including Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara, PWD Minister Satish Jarkiholi and Social Welfare Minister Dr HC Mahadevappa, have held several rounds of talks to discuss the issue. They have also told some SC legislators to be prepared for a meeting with the high command, but it is unlikely to materialise, a source said. “Who said the high command will not consider a Dalit for CM. It might be waiting for an appropriate time. The high command is in favour of Dalits,” Mahadevappa said on Friday. The high command has, however, instructed the Dalit grouping not to create confusion, another source said. Housing Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan and APMC Minister Shivanand Patil on Friday said Siddaramaiah will continue as CM for the remaining two-and-a-half years. Some days ago, seven ministers wrote to the high command demanding Siddaramaiah’s continuation, an MLA in Shivakumar’s camp said. Shivakumar’s sympathisers, however, think that raising the Dalit CM issue is the last-ditch effort of the Siddaramaiah camp. They also believe that Sonia Gandhi and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would convince Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi to have the final word in favour of Shivakumar. The Bihar assembly polls results, out on November 14, having a bearing on Karnataka politics cannot be ruled out, analysts said. Shivakumar has been assuring high command leaders that there would be no rebellion or crisis if there is a change in leadership, the source said. Siddu rubbishes report on CM change Siddaramaiah on Friday rubbished a report in a vernacular daily that Shivakumar would be sworn-in as chief minister in November last week. “Who told you? How did you know? Which newspaper? I read all the newspapers, nothing as such has appeared,” he said, replying to queries from reporters at Vidhana Soudha. “How will I know a deadline has been set? Only the CM, party president and high command know,” said Mahadevappa, replying to a query on Shivakumar reportedly setting a deadline for power transfer. Courtesy : TNIE Note: This news is originally published on https:/thenewindianexpress.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Gujarat: Dalit Man Killed by Bride’s Family for Inter-Caste Marriage in Narol, Six Booked Under SC/ST Act
In Narol, Gujarat, the family of a bride allegedly killed her 60-year-old Dalit father-in-law after being angered by an inter-caste marriage. Police have registered a case of murder and under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against six people, arresting five of them so far. According to reports, the bride’s family was furious after her marriage to Sunny, a Dalit man. On Thursday afternoon, when Sunny’s elder brother dropped their parents near the Usmanpura metro station for cleaning work, the bride’s relatives including her uncles, aunts, and brother-in-law arrived at the spot and attacked the couple with sticks and rods. Witnesses said the attackers hurled caste-based abuses before brutally beating them. Some passersby intervened and managed to rescue the injured couple. However, after returning home, the victim, Bhailal Vaghela, began to have breathing problems and was rushed to LG Hospital in Maninagar, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. The Narol police said the accused, identified as Raju Parmar, Mahesh Parmar (uncle), Lili Parmar, Kalavati Parmar, Mahesh Parmar (brother-in-law), and Prem Parmar, have been charged with murder, assault, and under the SC/ST Act. Five have been arrested, while one woman, Jyoti, is still absconding. Inspector V. J. Chavda said, “The accused were angry over their daughter’s marriage to a Dalit man. To satisfy their rage, they took a life.” The victim’s family said they had been receiving threats from the bride’s relatives even before the incident. Police officials added that further investigation is underway and more details will emerge soon. Courtesy : TOP Note: This news is originally published on https:/t.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Dalit organisation threatens protest seeking Bajpe road repair
Several two-wheeler riders have sustained injury after falling off from their vehicles while trying to avoid potholes on the stretch The Karnataka Dalit Sangarsha Samiti (B.Krishnappa Stapita) has threatened of protest if authorities fail to repair the pothole filled State Highway stretch from Kinnigoli to Mangaluru, via Bajpe and Kavoor. Talking to reporters in Mangaluru on Thursday, Samiti’s Organisational Convenors Raghu Yekkar and D. Krishnananda said the stretch was filled with potholes for a long time and it has become difficult for people to come to the city using this stretch. This stretch was being used by those from Mulky and Belman to reach the Mangaluru International Airport. Motorists use this road to reach the popular Kateel Durgaparameshwari temple. Several two-wheeler riders have sustained injury after falling off from their vehicles while trying to avoid potholes on the stretch. The two said authorities should taken action within the next 15 days to fill potholes on the stretch. If officials fail to take any action, the DSS will be forced to hold a protest, Mr. Yekkar and Mr. Krishnananda said. The Hindu Bureau Courtesy : The Hindu Note: This news is originally published on https:/thehindu.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
MP News: Firing, Arson Reported In Bhind; 9 Booked After Dalit Killing
Tension prevailed in Riniya village under Daboh police station limits after a violent attack followed the murder of a Dalit youth, Ali alias Rudra Pratap Singh Jatav on Saturday night. Bhind (Madhya Pradesh): Tension prevailed in Riniya village under Daboh police station limits after a violent attack followed the murder of a Dalit youth, Ali alias Rudra Pratap Singh Jatav on Saturday night. Police have registered a case against seven named and two unidentified accused for firing, vandalism and arson, which caused losses estimated at Rs 15–20 lakh. According to the complaint by Meherban Singh alias Bunty Kaurav, the incident occurred around 10:30 pm on October 25 when 8–10 armed men from Raipura No 2, including Shailendra, Ashok, Ramkesh, Bhaiyalal, Satendra, Captain, Jabar and Darshan Jatav, attacked his home. The assailants reportedly fired shots, broke the main gate and damaged household items such as the TV, fridge, cooler and sofa. Ashok was armed with a 12-bore gun, Bhaiyalal with a pistol, Satendra with a sword and Captain carried a Mauser. The attackers allegedly set the house and a car on fire after vandalism. The family fled the village in fear but later returned when police forces were deployed. An FIR was registered under various sections of BNS for arson, assault and unlawful assembly. Police have begun an investigation and are searching for the remaining unidentified accused. Courtesy : TFPJ Note: This news is originally published on https:/thefreepressjournal.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
TDP MLA flays YSRCP for ‘twisting’ Bhagavad Gita remark
The remarks, which went viral recently, sparked outrage among Hindutva groups. VIJAYAWADA/ANANTAPUR: TDP MLA and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Trust Board member MS Raju on Thursday tendered an apology if his recent comments on the Bhagavad Gita hurt sentiments, while strongly condemning YSRCP-affiliated social media and YouTube channels for allegedly twisting his words to portray him as disrespecting the Hindu scripture. In a selfie video released to the media, the Madakasira MLA clarified that during a public meeting in Begarlapalli village on October 28 — while unveiling statues of Dr BR Ambedkar and Babu Jagjivan Ram — he had emphasised that the living standards of Dalits improved due to the Indian Constitution drafted by Ambedkar, not religious texts like the Bhagavad Gita, Quran, or the Bible. “I am a Hindu Dalit with full faith in the Bhagavad Gita and a devotee of Lord Venkateswara. I never denigrated any scripture,” Raju asserted. He accused the YSRCP’s social media wing of launching a malicious campaign to divert public attention from Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s effective cyclone relief efforts. “They are spreading lies to undermine the good work in affected areas,” he said, adding that Naidu appointed him to the TTD Board precisely because of his Hindu Dalit identity. Raju also took a dig at YSRCP leader Bhumana Karunakar Reddy, alleging the latter “practises Christianity at home but acts like a Hindu outside for political gains.” He invited critics to verify his family’s credentials in their village. The remarks, which went viral recently, sparked outrage among Hindutva groups. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leaders demanded Raju’s immediate removal from the TTD Board, threatening large-scale protests if their demand was ignored. Courtesy : TNIE Note: This news is originally published on https:/thenewindianexpress.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights