Dalit Hakkugala Samiti (DHS) of Hassan district will hold a one-day hunger protest in Hassan on April 13 demanding the entry of Dalits into the temple and community hall at Sigaranahalli in Holenarsipur taluk.
District convenor M.G. Pruthvi, in a press release, said that even as the country was celebrating B.R. Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary, untouchability had been continuing in many parts of the country. Dalit women of Sigarahanalli were imposed penalty for entering Basaveshwara temple last year. “The elected representatives are also supporting the ‘upper’ caste. We are opposing them in protest,” he said.
Representatives of DHS will stage the hunger protest outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office.
