Reports coming in that the UP government plans to use NSA against Chandrashekhar. Should be condemned and opposed by all concerned.Dalit leader Advocate Chandrashekar was admitted to District Hospital of Saharanpur after the ‘Dalit-Thakur’ clashes . Ravi Das statues have apparently been desecrated in many places in Western UP, according to preliminary reports by news agencies. Dalits Around the World has Came forward to Support Bhim Army now. According to reports UP goverment may use National Security Act (NSA) against Chandrashekar.
Bheem Army, which had been staging a sit-in in protest ever since clashes broke out last week between Dalits and Thakurs, leaving one person dead and over two dozen injured.
They demand equal rights and compensation for those who incurred losses, after 15-20 Dalit houses were burnt. The message in these unified movements is loud and clear: They want justice for the wrongs done to them, and discrimination of any sort will not be tolerated.
And this message has bound together an army of 40,000 Dalit youth across seven states in northern India, according to Chandrashekhar, who founded the Bhim Army merely two years ago.
The 30-something lawyer is well-built, often dons a blue scarf and talks of ideas of equality and annihilation of caste. According to a report in The Indian Express, Chandrasheskhar would have gone on to study abroad, but had to scrap his plan because of his ailing father. Staying at his village in Chhutmalpur while looking after his father, he decided that something needed to be done about the upliftment of "his people", as he thought the political entities touted as Dalit parties are too deeply entrenched in politics to afford to upset the upper castes.
Another report in The Quint quotes him as saying, "We need a BSP, but we also need a Bhim Army... political parties must appease all communities: Those lathicharged for a signboard with their own name on their own land, and those who ordered the lathicharge."
