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

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Tags : Walk The Talk Posted: Monday , May 11, 2009 at 2208 hrs

Resident of a dalit village

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•So who did this?

A. The village head Ranbir Singh

•Have you also experienced something similar?

A. My brother was beaten up. They abuse us. They force us to work in their fields and threaten our family members if we don't. There have been so many atrocities on us that we can't even recount them now.

•And this happened more under Mulayam Singh's government.

A. Yes that's right. We were never allowed to go and even complain.

•But how will you reach out to Mayawati's government?

A. Under her we are assured that criminals will not be spared

•So your MLA listens to you now?

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A. Yes

•But we have heard that they buy tickets after bribing.

A. We can't say that. But our MP here has helped us a lot.

•What do you have to say about the huge house that Mayawati has erected for herself?

A. We don't care even if she stays in a golden house. What we care is that we must be able to live peacefully

•So you don't care as long as you get to live peacefully.

That's true. As long as our lives are safe, we don't care about all those things.

•What is your name?

Anita Devi

•Do you work?

Yes, I work as a labourer. Right now, I am making that house. We are not allowed to use the toilets made by the government.

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poorer dalit empowermentBy: surya prakash | 30-Jul-2009 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 | 19-Jun-2009 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 | 12-May-2009 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 | 12-May-2009 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 | 11-May-2009 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.

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