Sanjay Patil by Nagpur
New Delhi: The Dalit groups in Nagpur have opposed Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's decision to field former BJP MP Nana Patole from the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat.
Patole, who joined Congress a year ago, is now considered the front of Congress ticket from Nagpur Lok Sabha seat.
Dalit activists say that Patole had "openly supported criminals" behind the brutal killing of four members of a dalit family in Khairlanyi village of Bhandara district of Maharashtra in 2006.
"The candidacy of Nana Patole has created a disturbance among the large population of the population and especially the Dalits in Nagpur. The reason behind this unrest is that, in 2006, Patole played a role in protecting the criminals behind the cruel massacre of a dalit Bhotmangay family in Khairlanyi village of Maharashtra, "A Dalit worker said in an email to Rahul Gandhi.
A PhD student from Nagpur University, who did not want to disclose his name, has also expressed the fear that if the Congress brought Patole to the ground then Nagpur could become a stressful situation.
"Despite being the RSS headquarters, our city (Nagpur) has never seen caste or communal tension. But Patole's candidature threatens to dump Dalits against OBC in this city, "The Dalit activist has alleged, while Gandhi appealed that he should make an independent inquiry into the role of Patole in Khirlanji Lynching.
Ambedkarites have organized a meeting in Nagpur on Wednesday, in which Patil is the party candidate from Nagpur, they are likely to pass a resolution to vote against Congress.
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The ten years have passed since the Kharlangi massacre on September 29, 2006, yet the exact conditions of the tragedy are still fog.
If you read one of the earliest events that appeared in The Times of India, then one month after the incident and the latest, in the same newspaper, which reappears the scene of crime, you are firmly troubled by the ambiguity Two narratives, set aside from a decade. The exact trigger behind the atrocities remains uncertain, which is complicated by the witnesses, law and order officials, social workers and criminal justice by conflicting accounts.
Let's ignore the effect of Rashomon for a moment and keep the underlying facts of the matter below, which we know are unquestionably true.
On this day, ten years ago, four members of a dalit family, which included a mother and their three children, were humiliated for several hours and publicly, which is a group of men in Khaarlangi village in Bhadra district Were killed by About 800 km from Maharashtra, capital Mumbai. The fifth member of the family, Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, who was now 61, when he was running at that time, he was alive.
While the killings were unquestionable, the conditions they had grown up remained silent.
Bhayyalal's wife Surekha Bhomenge (44) and daughter Priyanka (17) were allegedly publicly stripped and paraded by a gang of 40 to 60 people and were paraded until they were killed and their bodies were bicycles. The chain and bullock cart were sexually assaulted and brutalized. Throw in the canal. His son Roshan (19) and Sudhir (21) were also killed by the mob. Roshan, who was visually impaired, pleaded for mercy, but he was not spared.
It is believed that the villages settled by the people belonging to other OBCs, mainly, impose their neighbors, Siddhartha on the women to give testimony to the police against their neighbors to attack Gajbeer. The moral police claimed that Surekha was in an illegal relationship with Siddhartha, a fact that Bhayalal had rejected, although it was true that he would be entitled to monstrosity imposed on him.
CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat remembered his experience in an article in The Indian Express, one of the first people to bring this incident to the attention of the national media.
According to him, Siddharth, who was also a Dalit, who was a police patrol party, was formed by Surekha when an attempt was made by neighbors to seize five acres owned by Bhotmangs. He was stopped from building a pucca house. Priyanka, who topped her school, had to be a victim of casteism. When Siddhartha was harassed by local miscreants to support Surekha, she decided to give the police their testimony as a sign of testimony. In addition, he threatened to retaliate against the Dalits in a case against the men under the Prevention of Atrocities Act.
