The Dalit Asmita Yatra — or Dalit Pride March — started by a group of Dalit activists and civil society leaders to protest against atrocities on schedules castes is receiving huge support in villages where hundreds of Dalits are joining to end “caste-based discrimination” they face in their day-to-day life in Gujarat. En route to Una, we will stop at each village and tell Dalits to give up traditional works like sanitation, cleaning drainage and disposing dead animals. They hold meetings in which locals share their experiences about discrimination and then they take a pledge to not skin and dispose of dead animals in their villages and fight for their rights. In each village, people ranging from 200 to 500 gather and take a pledge against skinning dead animals or put up with any atrocity any longer,” said Pratik Sinha, a member of the yatra. “This is for liberation of Dalits and we will spread this message across the country.

Source: The Hindu August 10, 2016 22:07 UTC