PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2012 ID-53834
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LATHORE ATRGCITY a: PRELIMINARY OBS.ERVATIQ,NS 112.
·hamari economic situation thik hai, kuchh ke paas zameenhai, educationally hum unse behtar hain, .hum .
Ambedkarism ke ta_hat kam karle hain, temple mein entry ke liye sangharsh kiyehain, unke /iye baja bajana chhod diye hain. hamara Srikrishna club devetopment ka kam khud karla hai ,mera Meherki ladki ke sath affair hai...in sab se Meher aur Agrawal bahutjafte hain, .·-Laba Suna, Lathore "Maine 17 January ko Vanijya Sangha kekala bajariyon aur Ghasiram kemad (liquor) bhatti ke bare mein ek news itemlikha thq.. Jiske karan vo kaaphi baukhalaye the."-Kapil Suna, Lathore "22 January ko 3-3.30 baje 500-600 log jo kai gaon se the, Jitu dakeghar kojalane/age. Unkehath mein hathiyar the-fa/war, pharsa, .
kulhari, lathi, sambhal, eint (brick). Jaggannath Agrawal petrol bant raha tha. Ghasiram mad(liquor) free kar diya tha. Bol raha tha ki Ganda lognoko mar do. Ma-behan ki sari khinchi. Meri maa ko jab kandhe par lekar mein bhag rahi thi to unhebhi eint (brick) lagi. Hum mein se kuchh Ghasi pada meinbhage, jabki kuchhjungle ki taraf. Vetorch l3kar jungle mein bhi dhoondh rahe the. Merekapde bhi phat gaye the. Hamne puri raat junglemein guzaari kadakti dh.and mein."-Lalita Suna, Lathore "3. 30 baje se lekar 12.30 rat tak hamareghar ko jalaya-loota gaya. Unhe pata tha ki kis ghar mein sona -chandi hai. Vo use loot liya. Hamare certificatesko nikal-nikal karjala rahe the. Veghar ko jala rahe the aur naraderahe-holi hai. Ve hamaremicchil (goat), murgeko jala kar kha rahe theaur mad (liquor) pi rahethe. Police ki maujoodagi meinye sab hua~ Damka/jo bina pani ka tha kobhijaladiya."-Geetanjali Suna, Lathore .:Hum nirdoshhain. Hamare 45/og arrest hain. Aap isse politicise nahi kariye. Bhagwan insaf karenge·-An Agrawal Youth, Lathore "Hamare tog Patnagarh jail mein hain. Election ke bad ve chhoot jayenge. ·-Babita Meher, Lathore "We couldnot do anything. Police were busy in the combing operation. ~~-Loberto Kjro, SHO ''OM called at 9.30 pm on 22nd January to reach the relief camp on 23rd morning."-CDPO "We are giving food to 195 people, but they are feeding 270 people.Their relatives are eating their food:-BOO :tHamare school ki padhai yahan badhit ho rahi hai is camp kekaran. Jati iss ghatana ka karan nahi hai. AN Mishra, Headmaster, Durgeshwari High School {a part of this school is 'relief camp now) "Humko Maovadiyonsebachane keliye yahan deploy kiya gaya hai." A Para-Military Force Deployed in the Camp .
" Everbody is fit and fine here."-Medical Officer at the Camp, A Meher .
~Incident of Lathore is not anissue. It is part of life normal life ." -AK Panda, DSP (Establishment} .
" We are responsible for natural calamities and not for this."-Mr. Minj, ADM .
'"It has nothing to dowith caste. Wecannot register it under SC/STAct. We cannot do anything now. We are busy in election."-AK Dey, 01\-1 'Caste ts not the reason of this incident. People fromdifferent villages were part of this crime." Bhaj Meher, Samvad (!Hum vote varyaan (boycott) karenge~-Seemanchal, Lathore "Hum pehle-to constitutional tarikese apna sangharsh karenge. Lekin agar hamein nayaya nahi mila tohum Maovadiyno ke sath ho jayenge"-Rinku Suna, Lathore These are someof theexcerpts shared with our ten membesr teamfrom DU, JNU, IGNOU which were in Lathore from1st to 41h February .
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******************** When Indian State was gearing up for its 'Republic Day celebratio!ls on 22°~ February, 2012 45 houses of Dalits in Lathore , Balangir district of Odisha were looted, burnt down by the Meher-Agrawal in collaboration with the RSS. Properties worth crores were tooted. .
Women were harassed, sexually abused. And now they are living 1n a camp, Ourgeshwari High School, Lathore. The Administration .
is busy in Panchayat election and have left the people on their own. .
The torching was well planned: The brahamanical media and the Administration projected that the reason for the gutting down of houses is 'stealing' of a shirt by a dalit boy, Ganesh Suna from the shop of Bharat Meher. We must not forget that even in Mrrchpur genocide, where mere barking of a dog at Jat youths was stated as the reason for torching of the two dalits alive! Our interaction with the people in the camp proves that the reason behind it are many including the growing assertion of masses and their collective .
resistance waged against the BrahamanicaJ State. The Dalits of Lathore are com~aratively in beJlef _sit~tion. -$Qme of them hold land. Economically, educationally they are better than their upper castes neighbours. They have rejected the caste based slaver/ imposed on them. Politically they have started asserting thus have emerged as the enemy for the caste Hindus. Their mifitant assertion for entry into temples, collectively taking up the developmental tasks under the banner of 'K· rishna Club' (which is going to .
be renamed as 'Jai Bhim Club') and many others are big threat for the RSS. .
Kapil Suna, a journalist whose house was also burnt told us that on 17th January he had written a news item in the The Samaya, .
'kala bazaar ka shahar.
Oriya daily, in which he exposed the black market and the illegal liquor business. The title this news item is .
Lathore'. In addition to liquor, there is black-marketing of woods, kerosene, public distribution items such as wheat, rice etc. and also .
.
the minerals like coal. Along with the local mafia dons Jaggannath Agarwal and Ghasiram Agarwal, the local administratk>n is .
.
involved in this. Ghasiram Agarwal has a Bear factory in Belpara (Odisha) and aiso one in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that this was a .
.
planned torching was also substantiated by the information provided by the CDPO. She expressed that they were called by the OM .
on the 22nd night itself (while the houses were still burning) that the Durgeshwari School should be made as the 'relief camp and the .
.
OM asked her to be present with other Aanganwadi didis in the 'relief camp on 23m morning. More so people from different villages .
.
·Nere part of the attacking mob. .
Administration-not only spectator but also perpetrator: The observation of our team is that the Police and Administration is hand-.
.
in-g!ov~s in this heinous crime. It was reiterated ?Y the peopk~ in the camp that the SHO Lobert.o Kiro was present on the spot when the houses were being burnt down. People unammously sa1d that the office of the OM, SP was 1nfonned when the mob of more than s basti) but they did not bother to take any step. The looting·and tortOOg of500 people gheraoed the Ganda Pada (name of the dalit'.
clock and went till midnight, but the casteist Administration dki nothing. When the houses wem beinghouses started at around 3 O'.
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2012 ID-53834
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11~0.
LATHORE ATRGCITY a: PRELIMINARY OBS.ERVATIQ,NS 112.
·hamari economic situation thik hai, kuchh ke paas zameenhai, educationally hum unse behtar hain, .hum .
Ambedkarism ke ta_hat kam karle hain, temple mein entry ke liye sangharsh kiyehain, unke /iye baja bajana chhod diye hain. hamara Srikrishna club devetopment ka kam khud karla hai ,mera Meherki ladki ke sath affair hai...in sab se Meher aur Agrawal bahutjafte hain, .·-Laba Suna, Lathore "Maine 17 January ko Vanijya Sangha kekala bajariyon aur Ghasiram kemad (liquor) bhatti ke bare mein ek news itemlikha thq.. Jiske karan vo kaaphi baukhalaye the."-Kapil Suna, Lathore "22 January ko 3-3.30 baje 500-600 log jo kai gaon se the, Jitu dakeghar kojalane/age. Unkehath mein hathiyar the-fa/war, pharsa, .
kulhari, lathi, sambhal, eint (brick). Jaggannath Agrawal petrol bant raha tha. Ghasiram mad(liquor) free kar diya tha. Bol raha tha ki Ganda lognoko mar do. Ma-behan ki sari khinchi. Meri maa ko jab kandhe par lekar mein bhag rahi thi to unhebhi eint (brick) lagi. Hum mein se kuchh Ghasi pada meinbhage, jabki kuchhjungle ki taraf. Vetorch l3kar jungle mein bhi dhoondh rahe the. Merekapde bhi phat gaye the. Hamne puri raat junglemein guzaari kadakti dh.and mein."-Lalita Suna, Lathore "3. 30 baje se lekar 12.30 rat tak hamareghar ko jalaya-loota gaya. Unhe pata tha ki kis ghar mein sona -chandi hai. Vo use loot liya. Hamare certificatesko nikal-nikal karjala rahe the. Veghar ko jala rahe the aur naraderahe-holi hai. Ve hamaremicchil (goat), murgeko jala kar kha rahe theaur mad (liquor) pi rahethe. Police ki maujoodagi meinye sab hua~ Damka/jo bina pani ka tha kobhijaladiya."-Geetanjali Suna, Lathore .:Hum nirdoshhain. Hamare 45/og arrest hain. Aap isse politicise nahi kariye. Bhagwan insaf karenge·-An Agrawal Youth, Lathore "Hamare tog Patnagarh jail mein hain. Election ke bad ve chhoot jayenge. ·-Babita Meher, Lathore "We couldnot do anything. Police were busy in the combing operation. ~~-Loberto Kjro, SHO ''OM called at 9.30 pm on 22nd January to reach the relief camp on 23rd morning."-CDPO "We are giving food to 195 people, but they are feeding 270 people.Their relatives are eating their food:-BOO :tHamare school ki padhai yahan badhit ho rahi hai is camp kekaran. Jati iss ghatana ka karan nahi hai. AN Mishra, Headmaster, Durgeshwari High School {a part of this school is 'relief camp now) "Humko Maovadiyonsebachane keliye yahan deploy kiya gaya hai." A Para-Military Force Deployed in the Camp .
" Everbody is fit and fine here."-Medical Officer at the Camp, A Meher .
~Incident of Lathore is not anissue. It is part of life normal life ." -AK Panda, DSP (Establishment} .
" We are responsible for natural calamities and not for this."-Mr. Minj, ADM .
'"It has nothing to dowith caste. Wecannot register it under SC/STAct. We cannot do anything now. We are busy in election."-AK Dey, 01\-1 'Caste ts not the reason of this incident. People fromdifferent villages were part of this crime." Bhaj Meher, Samvad (!Hum vote varyaan (boycott) karenge~-Seemanchal, Lathore "Hum pehle-to constitutional tarikese apna sangharsh karenge. Lekin agar hamein nayaya nahi mila tohum Maovadiyno ke sath ho jayenge"-Rinku Suna, Lathore These are someof theexcerpts shared with our ten membesr teamfrom DU, JNU, IGNOU which were in Lathore from1st to 41h February .
20~ 2. .
******************** When Indian State was gearing up for its 'Republic Day celebratio!ls on 22°~ February, 2012 45 houses of Dalits in Lathore , Balangir district of Odisha were looted, burnt down by the Meher-Agrawal in collaboration with the RSS. Properties worth crores were tooted. .
Women were harassed, sexually abused. And now they are living 1n a camp, Ourgeshwari High School, Lathore. The Administration .
is busy in Panchayat election and have left the people on their own. .
The torching was well planned: The brahamanical media and the Administration projected that the reason for the gutting down of houses is 'stealing' of a shirt by a dalit boy, Ganesh Suna from the shop of Bharat Meher. We must not forget that even in Mrrchpur genocide, where mere barking of a dog at Jat youths was stated as the reason for torching of the two dalits alive! Our interaction with the people in the camp proves that the reason behind it are many including the growing assertion of masses and their collective .
resistance waged against the BrahamanicaJ State. The Dalits of Lathore are com~aratively in beJlef _sit~tion. -$Qme of them hold land. Economically, educationally they are better than their upper castes neighbours. They have rejected the caste based slaver/ imposed on them. Politically they have started asserting thus have emerged as the enemy for the caste Hindus. Their mifitant assertion for entry into temples, collectively taking up the developmental tasks under the banner of 'K· rishna Club' (which is going to .
be renamed as 'Jai Bhim Club') and many others are big threat for the RSS. .
Kapil Suna, a journalist whose house was also burnt told us that on 17th January he had written a news item in the The Samaya, .
'kala bazaar ka shahar.
Oriya daily, in which he exposed the black market and the illegal liquor business. The title this news item is .
Lathore'. In addition to liquor, there is black-marketing of woods, kerosene, public distribution items such as wheat, rice etc. and also .
.
the minerals like coal. Along with the local mafia dons Jaggannath Agarwal and Ghasiram Agarwal, the local administratk>n is .
.
involved in this. Ghasiram Agarwal has a Bear factory in Belpara (Odisha) and aiso one in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that this was a .
.
planned torching was also substantiated by the information provided by the CDPO. She expressed that they were called by the OM .
on the 22nd night itself (while the houses were still burning) that the Durgeshwari School should be made as the 'relief camp and the .
.
OM asked her to be present with other Aanganwadi didis in the 'relief camp on 23m morning. More so people from different villages .
.
·Nere part of the attacking mob. .
Administration-not only spectator but also perpetrator: The observation of our team is that the Police and Administration is hand-.
.
in-g!ov~s in this heinous crime. It was reiterated ?Y the peopk~ in the camp that the SHO Lobert.o Kiro was present on the spot when the houses were being burnt down. People unammously sa1d that the office of the OM, SP was 1nfonned when the mob of more than s basti) but they did not bother to take any step. The looting·and tortOOg of500 people gheraoed the Ganda Pada (name of the dalit'.
clock and went till midnight, but the casteist Administration dki nothing. When the houses wem beinghouses started at around 3 O'.
.