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Dalit convention held

NEW DELHI: The first convention of National Dalit Front was held at Mavalankar Hall in V.P. House here on Wednesday in which leaders cutting across party lines demanded that reservation must be extended in the private sector. After long deliberations by the Front president Ram Vilas Paswan, working president Ramdas Athawale and secretary general Udit Raj, a resolution was passed in which it was demanded that the Reservation Bill must be passed in Parliament and atrocities against Dalits must come to an end.

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