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Karnataka: Beef Festival in Mysore to protest against rising attacks on Dalits and Muslims all across India

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Karnataka: Beef Festival in Mysore to protest against rising attacks on Dalits and Muslims all across India Empty Karnataka: Beef Festival in Mysore to protest against rising attacks on Dalits and Muslims all across India

Post by Guest Sat Aug 06, 2016 10:38 am

It was in December 2015 that we saw several Dalit students at the Osmania university conducting a beef festival protesting against the attacks on Muslims and Dalits. Now another Dalit group from Mysuru has decided to organise a beef festival in Karnataka. This again in protest against the rising attacks on Dalits and Muslims across the country.

Beef-eating festivals keep the law enforcing agencies on tenterhooks as it has always shown the potential to create social tension and unleash violence between the pro and anti-beef activists. Now with dalits in Mysuru trying to make a point that they too want freedom to practice and eat without the right wing activists breathing down their neck, they have decided to hold a beef festival seeking this very freedom.

In Mysuru, the beef fest has been organised on August 7 and it will be their way to voice their protest against attacks on Dalits in Una and Chikamagalur. While speaking to India Today, the spokesperson of the Karnataka Dalit Welfare Trust, Shantaraju said "We have grown up eating beef, who are these activists to question what we eat? They attack us for even transporting meat and don't even check what kind of meat is there in the first place."

Shantaraju went on to say that there are expecting nearly 200 people to attend the function. "Did you see the video from Una incident? Is that how you treat us? Like beasts? We make shoes, belts and musical instruments as a part of our profession and these very people enjoy the fruit of our labour," Shantaraju said.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/now-a-beef-festival-in-mysuru-by-dalit-organisations/1/733038.html

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