Rajahmundry: Former MP G.V. Harsha Kumar called upon the Dalits not to vote for Telugu Desam party in the ensuing bypolls at Nandyal. The ex-MP said here on Saturday that the state government had totally failed to prove justice to the Dalits who were subjected to social boycott by the Upper Caste people at Garagaparru village of Palakoderu mandal in West Godavari.
He said that though a group of ministers visited the village and tried work out a reconciliation between the warring Upper Caste people and the Dalits with a promise to provide justice to the Dalit victims by providing financial relief worth Rs 1 lakh to each family, developing basic amenities in their area and initiating measures to avoid recurrence of such practice, no promise was fulfilled so far.
He said, “The Telugu Desam government has been trying to suppress the Dalits for long time and their interests are never safeguarded. Though a few Dalits are supporting the party, I appeal to all Dalits to be united and extend no support to the party to help it realise the importance of Dalits in the society.” The former MP is planning to lead a delegation of Dalit victims to New Delhi to meet the President Ram Nath Kovind to appraise him about the ordeal they were subjected to in the form of social boycott by the Upper Caste people and no help received from the government.
