Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah hit out at the Centre and asked what moral authority the Union Government have to question stae government when it unjustly uses the budget funds meant for the rightful development of Dalits by not implementing the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan/Tribal Sub-
Leader of Opposition of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Mata Prasad Pandey, said on Monday that they always had been PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) people, countering the opposition alleging the Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav betraying the backward and Dalits.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Saturday launched a scathing attack against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the OBC reservation bill saying that BJP is against the Dalits, backward classes, tribals, minorities, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday slammed Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, alleging that he has always been against backwards and Dalits.
Former Karnataka Minister and MP Basvaraj Bommai said the Congress has looted Rs 1087 crore of the people in the Valmiki Development Corporation case. He also questioned what Rahul Gandhi was doing when the money of the Dalits was being looted.
Congress leader Pawan Khera on Monday spoke about the Supreme Court's verdict on nameplates in Kanwar Yatra route and said that the verdict is unconstitutional and if one writes their name and religion on the shop, then it is anti-Dalit and anti-Muslim.
Amid the row in Uttar Pradesh, the Haridwar Police Administration also issued an order for restaurant owners to display names on the Kanwar Yatra route.
Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister Raaj Kumar Anand on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday here in the national capital and criticized the AAP Chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying that he had requested the former to work towards the welfare of Dali
Vijayapura MP and BJP leader Ramesh Jigajinagi has expressed his pain over not being made a Minister in the Union Council of Ministers, saying, "I am deeply hurt."
Attacking the DMK government in Tamil Nadu over the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party state president K Armstrong, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shehzad Poonawalla said on Saturday that "no Dalit is feeling safe" in the state.