Ahmedabad, Sept. 1: A BJP "harmony meeting" to woo Dalits in Una town ended in fiasco yesterday after a protest by the attending Dalits forced the party to call the event off after 20 minutes. They exploded in rage after the first speaker, Girish Parmar, a Dalit politician who had joined the BJP from the Congress in 2012, attacked Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati. BJP sources said that a senior party functionary from the district, Gir Somnath, had earlier warned against holding the meeting in Una saying the local Dalits were in no mood to forgive the BJP yet. Dalit politician and state social justice minister Atmaram Parmar echoed Rathod. They planted their men, who disrupted our harmony meeting at Una yesterday."

Source: The Telegraph September 01, 2016 21:22 UTC