Sonia writes PM on atrocities on Dalits
June 01, 2015 21:22
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging the "distressing rise" in incidents of Dalit atrocities and demanded that a bill to prevent such crimes is brought in the monsoon session of Parliament next month.
Referring to the incidents of Dalit atrocities in two-BJP ruled states Rajasthan and Maharashtra, the Congress President also alleged that the NDA government had "allowed" an ordinance, brought by UPA, to lapse and slammed it for not bringing a bill to replace it in the last budget session of parliament.
Gandhi's letter to the Prime Minister comes a day before Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi visits Dalit icon B R Ambedkar's birthplace Mhow in Madhya Pradesh tomorrow to inaugurate the national launch of the year-long 125th birth anniversary celebrations of one of the architects of the Constitution.