Hubballi, May 6: Referring to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), former Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said that under BJP’s watch, a Dalit suffered an atrocity every 12 minutes and six Dalit women were raped every day.
Addressing presspersons along with AICC General Secretary Mukul Wasnik and spokesperson Pavan Khera, Mr Shinde said that highest crimes against Adivasis were registered in BJP ruled states of Chhatisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
States that accounted for a majority of crimes against Dalits as per NCRB, were the BJP-ruled States of Madhya Pradesh (43.4%), Rajasthan (42%), Goa (36.7%) and Gujarat (32.5%), while Congress-ruled Karnataka recorded significantly lesser crimes against Dalits, he said.
Mr. Shinde said the last four years of the NDA rule at the Centre had witnessed an anti-Dalit and anti-adivasi bias like never before, leading to a brazen attack on the Constitution. “And the dilution of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, is a consequence of this deep rooted prejudice,” he said.
In contrast to this, the Congress-led government in Karnataka has initiated measures to empower the SC/STs and weaker sections. In fact based on the population, the budgetary allocation had been increased to 24.10% to facilitate their empowerment, he said.
Mr. Wasnik said that there had been massive cuts in allocation to Scheduled Castes in the Central budget. The allocation to SCs which accounted for 16.6% of the country’s population has been now reduced to 5.5%, he said.
He pointed out that even in terms of jobs for SCs there had been a massive reduction of 91%. While there were 92,928 jobs for Dalits in the Central government during the Congress rule (2013), it came down to just 8,436 in 2015 under BJP, he said.
Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said while Mr. Modi praised B.R. Amedkar, his party’s goons were vandalising the statues of Ambedkar.
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