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Eminent Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai on the Evil Chaddiwalahs

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Post by Guest Thu Aug 04, 2016 7:20 pm

One of the lesser known facts perhaps of the 2002 Gujarat riots is that Dalits were at the fore of much of the violence against Muslims in Ahmedabad. When I asked an accused Dalit boy in the Naroda Patia area why he got involved in the rioting, his answer troubled me: “The local Bajrang Dal has promised us we will be allowed to stay in the land vacated by the Muslims who have fled”. Whether that was a riot “jumla” or not, the fact is many Dalits were the foot soldiers of the rioting mobs and were swayed by the promise of being empowered by caste Hindus. The local Muslims were then seen as a common “enemy”.....


Post-script: In his book Karmayog published in 2007, Modi writes that “the work of cleaning toilets has been a spiritual experience for the Valmiki community”. Would the PM care to explain to the country what he means by manual scavenging being a “spiritual” experience?

http://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/una-type-incidents-can-undo-the-bjp-s-hard-work-to-win-the-confidence-of-dalits/story-VYpqTGNGRoPaVWn9jgTQ6M.html

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