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‘Earlier there was booth capturing... but in Mayawati’s regime we can vote freely’

•There is no point talking to leaders all the time. All of you have been staying here fearlessly despite the atrocities inflicted for last so many years. So what has changed now and what were the difficulties earlier? A. Earlier there was booth capturing during elections and we could not v ....Read more

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poorer dalit empowermentBy: surya prakash | Thursday , 30 Jul '09 16:01:17 PM Reply | Forward This interview generates great interest among people who lives below poverty line and poorest dalitas.Dalits life in rural U.P is too pity,and their living conditions are hopeless.No doubt Mayawati given great hope to their living conditions.Mulayam Singh failed to fullfill the aspirations of Dalits by that lost in elections.B.J.P failed to win their confidence.It's time for Mayawati to make reforms in governance,to implement schemes to help in improving their conditions. Being a dalit her duty to give honour to poorest of poor and dalits.Thanks to Sheker Gupta bringing such an excellent interview.

Dalit EmpowermentBy: R.M.Bhatia | Friday , 19 Jun '09 17:39:38 PM Reply | Forward Sir, I am happy to say that you have published a very good Article on Dalit Empowerment. I am fully agree with you that Ms. Mayawati has given some hope to a respectable life to Dalits which they were deprived since long. It is also true that Congress and SP Governments have nothing done for the development of Dalits since independence in UP. SP had always encourage castism in the entire country as well as other parties like RJD and BJP. No party has worked for the Dalits and only doing polotics for grabing power. Ms. Mayawati has done little but she should change her image among the other upper caste people that her party is not against the upper caste people and will give priority to other poorer people of the State. I congratule the Indian Express on such good interview.

Walk-Talk by Shekhar GuptaBy: MOHAN DADDIKAR | Tuesday , 12 May '09 20:30:57 PM Reply | Forward This is the best interview I have come across in recent days. The intervies throws light on the ground realities of the down-trodden people in India even after sixty years of independence.One point that struck me is that these down-trodden people are not worried about the corruption or the extravangant style of living of the politiians as long as their polices result in improvemet of their living condtions.

A good InterviesBy: Pawan Mittal | Tuesday , 12 May '09 18:22:56 PM Reply | Forward I want to congratulate Mr Shekhar Gupta for making this interview as it is close to my heart being a village not far from my Home town of Ujhani(Budaun) though I am living in Mumbai for the past 18 Years.It throws light on the pitiable conditions of Dalits in our society even after so called empowerment,which,I also affirm being a part of north Indian upper caste society.This interview or media intitatives are welcome and should be vigorously taken up to be analogous with P.Sainath Jean Dreze's espousals in economic field.By this interview,my estimation for Mr Shekhar Gupta has risen higher and I regard him as V.P.Singh of Journalism for having the ability to provide adequate Sanskrit Sukti like one liners,most recently,the title of one of his articles being-HINDU RATE OF BJP GROWTH.Please keep us such interviews and articles to make Indian Express most lustily wanted News Paper in the morning .Best regards.

Dalit EmpowermentBy: M Suhail | Monday , 11 May '09 10:52:51 AM Reply | Forward I watch this episode on TV and read this column. We may agree to disagree with Ms Mayawati on many issues of governance. But one thing is certain - She has given hope to a respectable life to Dalits which was deprived by previous govts. Surprising answer by one of the residents of the village - "they had less problems" during Congress regime. Have our political leader in their lust for power over the years evolved a system by breaking up the social fabric to such an extent that voting is purely only on Caste basis.