Barely had the nationwide shock and outrage against the brutal killings of four dalits in Khairlanji subsided, a systematic attempt is on to sabotage the case by intimidation of key witnesses. The active collusion of local administration, perpetrators of this heinous crime and political leadership continues unabated in an effort to prevent delivery of justice. The CPI(M) expressed its deep concern at these recent developments in the Khairlanji case and appealed to the central government to ensure speedy justice. Polit Bureau member and MP, Brinda Karat, met the union home minister Shivraj Patil along with key witness Sidharth Gajbhaye on January 16, 2007 in New Delhi and raised this issue. [Read more]
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Dalits Enter Jagannath Temple In Keradagada, Orissa
(People’s Democracy, January 7, 2007) Keradagada in Kerdrapada district in Orissa is now in focus after some dalits entered a temple there, followed by predictable upper caste reaction. Keradagada was earlier in the princely state of Kanika and the Raja of Kanika had established one Jagannath Temple there. When all the princely states were abolished […]
The Khairlanji Massacre And After
Ashok Dhawale
On September 29, 2006 took place the horrific massacre of a dalit family at Khairlanji in Bhandara district near Nagpur. It is indeed a shocking irony that such a heinous incident, which recalls dark memories of the Kilvenmani dalit massacre in Tamil Nadu nearly four decades ago, should occur in a state that has had a long and rich tradition of great social reformers like Mahatma Jotirao Phule, Chhatrapati Shahu and Dr Ambedkar – that too in a year that marks the half century of Dr Ambedkar’s conversion and demise. [Read more]
Khairlanji Massacre: CPI(M) Demands Time-Bound CBI Probe
Kalindi Deshpande
This article by AIDWA Vice-President Kalindi Deshpande about the intervention of the CPI(M) following the Khairlanji massacre originally appeared in People’s Democracy, dated November 19, 2006. [Read more]
CPI(M) delegation’s statement on the Khairlanji atrocity
A CPI(M) delegation comprising Brinda Karat (Member, Polit Bureau and MP), Mahendra Mule (member, Maharashtra state committee), Kalindi Deshpande (vice president, AIDWA) and local CPI(M) activists visited the Khairlanji village in Bhandara district on November 9 and met the surviving members of the dalit family, four of whom had been brutally butchered. This is the statement issued by the delegation on November 10, 2006. [Read more]