Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
with trying to create a divide among the scheduled castes in
the name of creating a Mahadalit Commission and Lok Janashakti
Party (LJP) would fight the issue, LJP president Ram Vilas
Paswan said on Friday.
LJP will resist the government move 'from the road to
Parliament' and the party members along with RJD members would
raise the issue forcefully in Lok Sabha, he said.
LJP would also organise a dalit unity rally on December
17 at the Gandhi Maidan here to protest the government's move
and dalits from across the state would march to Bihar
assembly demanding their constitutional rights..
There is no mention of Mahadalits in the Constitution and
there is no Mahadalit Commission, he said adding unlike at the
national level the Bihar government had not constituted any
commission for scheduled castes.
Paswan claimed that the NDA government in the state
included 'ravidas' in the Mahadalits list after he had
intensified the agitation.
''Only the dussadhs, the caste which I belong to has been
kept out of the purview of the mahadalits ... It shows Kumar's
animosity towards me.''
PTI
First Published: Friday, November 20, 2009, 21:56