RJD ministry anti-dalit -- BJP
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

PATNA, NOV 18: BJP state unit of the Schedule Caste Morcha today charged the RJD ministry with having miserably failed to protect the interests of dalits and announced to launch an agitation against it to expose anti-dalit stance of the Laloo-Rabri regimes.

The first working committee meeting of the Morcha held here today in its resolution vehemently opposed the state government's move to purchase share of Reliance group from the financial assistance of Rs 40 crore provided by schedule caste cooperative development corporation.

Morcha's secretary, Pradip Kumar Raut, in a press statement alleged that the state government had also failed to utilise Rs 100 crore provided by the Centre for upliftment of dalits.

BJP state president Nand Kishore Yadav, vice-president Sanjay Paswan, MP, Satyadeo Narain Arya, Gauri Shanker Nagdansh and Navin Kishore Prasad Sinha, all MLAs, also spoke.

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