Pradesh Congress Committees have been directed to take up issues related to dalit atrocities, especially those related to dalit students, to reconnect with this community in the light of a dalit schol
Pradesh Congress Committees have been directed to take up issues related to dalit atrocities, especially those related to dalit students, to reconnect with this community in the light of a dalit scholar’s suicide in Hyderabad University. This will help in strengthening the party’s core political constituency.
The main Opposition Congress is expected to be aggressive on this issue which will be raised during the Budget Session of Parliament beginning next month.
The issue will not be confined to the NSUI or the Youth Congress. The entire Congress is raising it to corner the BJP and the Narendra Modi government. “Problems of youth and students hardly get prominence on the agenda of political parties. But the Hyderabad University incident will compel political parties to address their issues seriously,” said a dalit leader from the Congress from Maharashtra.
Politically, the dalit scholar’s suicide has isolated the ruling BJP as its own allies and friendly parties are unhappy with the way the issue was handled. Besides, it has united anti-BJP parties. The Congress expects it will go against the saffron party in the Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal Assembly polls.
Meanwhile, the AICC’s Vichar Vibhag department will be organising a seminar on “Era of Intolerance and Atrocities on Dalits” here on Friday.
Escalating its attack on the Centre over the suicide, the Congress Thursday demanded the immediate sacking of HRD minister Smriti Irani and labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya. “...Irani is lying through her teeth in a bid to protect the ABVP leader. She is misleading the nation by giving false information,” Congress spokesman Randeep Surjewala said. He said Ms Irani “justified the unfairness” meted out to Rohith Vemula.
