The derogatory remark made by sacked vice-president of the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh unit Dayashankar Singh about Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati had its echo in Kalaburagi, which has a large concentration of Dalits, with party workers and Dalits staging a protest demonstration and burning an effigy of Dayashankar Singh.
They demanded that Dayashankar Singh be arrested immediately and that cases booked against him under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Atrocities (Prevention) Act and said that indecent remarks by the BJP leader had exposed the indecent mindset of the BJP as a whole and their members’ disrespect towards women in general.
Slogans
The party workers raised slogans against the Union government and demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP national president Amit Shah for the derogatory remarks made by Dayashankar Singh against Ms. Mayawati over distributing party ticket.
District president of the BSP Hanumanth Bodankar accused the BJP-led Union government of not taking action against the rising incidents of atrocities against Dalits by Shiv Sena workers in Gujarat.
He demanded the dismissal of the government in Gujarat over deteriorating law and order situation.
Though the issues of exploitation by anti-social elements in Gujarat was raised by Ms. Mayawati, the government has failed to take any action against those involved in violence against Dalits, he added.
