Sources said that Virdi even met the Punjab CM to discuss the issues related to the Dalit community and he also suggested to the CM that people working for the upliftment of the Dalits must be given ticket for the Jalandhar Lok Sabha by-election.
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There are a numbers of Deras in Punjab. According to a study of 2006-2007, done by Ronki Ram, there were more than 9,000 Sikh and non-Sikh deras in the rural areas of Punjab. The distinguished nature of Deras in Punjab, established during the 19 century is that they acted as centres of dalit mobilization because the majority of the followers of these deras were people from