Rajasthan Congress MLA Quits Over Dalit Boy’s Death In Alleged Caste Crime

Jaipur:

Miffed over circumstances of alleged atrocities on Dalits, Congress MLA Pana Chand Meghwal on Monday despatched his resignation to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, saying he doesn’t have the best to remain as an MLA if he can not shield the rights of his group.

The event comes two days after the dying of a Dalit boy who was allegedly overwhelmed by a college instructor in Jalore for touching a consuming water pot.

“Once we fail to guard the rights of our group…we now have no proper to stay on the submit. After listening to my interior voice, I resign from the submit of the MLA, in order that I can serve the group with none place,” the MLA from Baran-Atru constituency mentioned his resignation letter.

Mr Meghwal mentioned although the nation is celebrating seventy fifth anniversary of Independence, atrocities on Dalits and the opposite disadvantaged lessons proceed.

“I’m harm trying on the atrocities. I can 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, sporting a moustache or using a mare throughout a marriage. The judicial course of is stalled and case recordsdata are handed from one desk to the opposite. Circumstances of atrocities in opposition to Dalits are on the rise in the previous couple of years. It appears there is no such thing as a one to guard the rights of Dalits given by the Structure, he mentioned.

“In a lot of the circumstances lodged by Dalits, the police submit the ultimate report. Many occasions, I’ve raised such circumstances within the state meeting however no motion was taken by the police,” Mr Meghwal rued.

In the meantime, to probe the dying of the boy who was overwhelmed by his instructor, the state’s Scheduled Castes and Schheduled Tribes Fee chairman Khiladi Lal Bairwa arrived in Jalore on Monday.

Indra Kumar, 9, was overwhelmed up within the college on July 20. He died throughout therapy at a hospital in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Saturday.

The accused instructor, Chail Singh, 40, has been arrested. The state authorities has introduced a aid of Rs 5 lakh for the sufferer’s household.

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