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The Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch (RDAM) together with different related teams on Thursday sought elimination of Further Director Normal of Police (SC/ST cell) Rajkumar Pandian from the submit inside 24 hours for allegedly misbehaving with Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani.
The event comes two days after Mevani wrote to the Gujarat Meeting Speaker in search of a privilege movement in opposition to the senior IPS officer for allegedly violating the previous’s dignity as an MLA.
The Dalit outfits additionally threatened to marketing campaign in opposition to BJP within the upcoming Vav meeting constituency bypoll in Gujarat and basic meeting elections in Maharashtra if the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering-ruled Gujarat authorities didn’t take away Pandian from the ADGP’s submit inside 24 hours.
They’ve additionally sought an apology from Pandian.
On October 15, Mevani had gone to satisfy Pandian to debate problems with Dalits in Gujarat, together with the alleged encroachments on land parcels allotted to Dalits below Agricultural Land Ceiling Act in Kutch district.
Later, Mevani alleged that Pandian misbehaved with him whereas asking him to maintain his cell phone outdoors the chamber. Mevani then reportedly sought to know the authorized provision below which Pandian was asking them to maintain their cell telephones outdoors the chamber.
In his letter, Mevani acknowledged, “Listening to this, he (Pandian) bought agitated and pointed his workers to take the cellphones whereas stating that (we) is likely to be recording.”
Addressing a press convention in Ahmedabad, Gujarat state convener of RDAM Subodh Kumud mentioned that the alleged smug behaviour of Pandian when Mevani, a Dalit MLA, went to satisfy him is insupportable.
“Pandian needed the cell phone outdoors the chamber. What’s he doing within the chamber that he’s terrified of being recorded?” Kumud requested. He added that the federal government has given Pandian a duty to take heed to the issues of Dalits in Gujarat.
“If he’s behaving this manner with an elected consultant, think about what would he do to frequent Dalits,” Kumud added.
Kumud mentioned that “if the federal government doesn’t take away him from the cost of ADGP (SC/ST Cell) in subsequent 24 hours” then,
“Dalits will present their power by campaigning in opposition to BJP within the upcoming bypoll of Vav meeting constituency and within the basic meeting elections of Maharashtra.”
Kumud additionally mentioned {that a} delegation of Dalits goes to satisfy Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Director Normal of Police on October 23.
When contacted, ADGP Pandian refused to touch upon the matter.
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