A startling incident has come to light from Uttar Pradesh s Bhadohi, where a Dalit girl faced casteist slurs, was beaten up and thrown out of her school by a former village head for not wearing a uniform on Tuesday.
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Amid the uproar over the death of a Dalit schoolboy in Rajasthan, senior Congress leader Meira Kumar on Sunday stressed on completely eradicating the "illness" of caste system and adopting a zero tolerance approach against prejudice. India News | Caste Atrocities soul-crippling , Need Zero Tolerance for Prejudice: Meira Kumar.
Amid the uproar over the death of a Dalit school boy in Rajasthan after being beaten up by a teacher, senior Congress leader Meira Kumar on Sunday stressed on completely eradicating the "illness" of caste system.
Amid the uproar over the death of a Dalit school boy in Rajasthan after being beaten up by a teacher, senior Congress leader Meira Kumar on Sunday stressed on completely eradicating the “illness” of caste system and adopting a “zero tolerance” approach against prejudice.
New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) Amid the uproar over the death of a Dalit school boy in Rajasthan after being beaten up by a teacher, senior Congress leader Meira Kumar on Sunday stressed on completely eradicating the “illness” of caste system and adopting a “zero tolerance” approach against prejudice. In an interview with PTI, the former Union minister also said one should not get into which particular regime or political party is responsible in the wake of incidents of atrocities on the basis of caste as it takes the focus away from the main question that the caste system must be abolished. The former Lok Sabha speaker asserted that over the years the caste system has neither been diluted nor has been eradicated. Her remarks come days after Indra Kumar (9) was beaten up by a teacher allegedly for touching a drinking water pot at a school in Rajasthan’s Jalore district on July 20. He died during treatment in Ahmedabad earlier this month. The accused, Chail Singh,