LUCKNOW: Just hours after Chotey lal Kharwar, a tribal BJP MP from Robertsganj constituency, dashed a letter to
Narendra Modi accusing the UP government of discrimination, a Dalit parliamentarian from the party has sent a letter to the Prime Minister seeking his intervention into cases of atrocities on the community post April 2 agitation against the Supreme Court order on SC/ST act.
In his letter, Etawah MP
Ashok Kumar Dohre said that Dalits, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, were being targeted by the police and cases were registered against them after the April 2 agitation. He said Dalits were being pulled out of their homes and beaten.
"Casteist comments were also being hurled at them,'' Dohre said, while demanding action against the police officials.
Earlier in the day, Kharwar had sent a letter to the PM saying that his brother, Jawahar Kharwar was removed as block pramukh by local BJP leaders with the help of block members affiliated to BSP. He also claimed instances of rampant corruption in the district administration and forest department in Chandauli, which is close to his constituency, for almost three year.
"After BJP came to power in the state, I hoped things would improve but nothing happened,'' said Kharwar, claiming that his own land was encroached by the administration. He claimed of meeting chief minister Yogi Adityanath twice only to be "scolded and asked to leave". In his letter, Kharwar also claimed of meeting BJP state chief Mahendra Nath Pandey, who is also Chandauli MP and BJP organisational secretary Sunil Bansal but to no avail.
"I also received life threats after which I had to approach the SC-ST commission,'' he said in the letter.
Narendra Modi (File Photo)
