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Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi wide caput and Villupuram MP D. Ravikumar, connected Wednesday, said the “shockingly debased condemnation complaint of 12.2% successful Tamil Nadu” successful cases of atrocities against Scheduled Castes was important little than the nationalist mean of 31.9% arsenic per the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) information and was a effect of “political disempowerment of Dalits” successful the past fewer decades.
Referring to the caller NCRB information for 2023, Mr. Ravikumar said, “Even though crimes against Scheduled Castes (SCs) person accrued crossed India, the concern successful Tamil Nadu is peculiarly shocking. A full of 1,921 crimes were committed against the SC assemblage radical successful the State successful 2023. In 2021, the fig was 1,377 and it accrued by astir 400 cases to 1,761 successful 2022. In 2023, it roseate further to 1,921.”
He further said portion crimes against the SC radical had decreased successful 2023 compared to 2022 successful States specified arsenic Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka, Tamil Nadu had recorded an increase.
“In 2023, 74 Dalits were murdered successful Tamil Nadu. Sexual unit against Dalit women has besides increased. In 2023, 135 Dalit women were raped successful Tamil Nadu — of these, 100 were insignificant girls. Rape of insignificant girls belonging to Scheduled Castes is peculiarly precocious lone successful six States successful India: Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is 1 of the 4 states wherever riots against SC communities hap successful precocious numbers.,” helium said.
Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Ravikumar claimed that some the DMK and the AIADMK woo the Other Backward Class (OBC) voters, not by extending payment measures to them, but by showing them that they were consenting to disregard the interests and aspirations of the Scheduled Castes successful Tamil Nadu.
“In Bihar, Dalit votes were important for the triumph of the National Democratic Alliance. Chirag Paswan, of Lok Jan Shakthi Party, was empowered with 29 seats. A bulk of the SC sub-castes supported the confederation overwhelmingly. However, successful Tamil Nadu, the Dravidian parties canine whistle the OBC voters by showing that they are acceptable to disregard the demands, aspirations and rights of the Dalits. This reminds america of the Hindutva maneuver of getting the votes of the Hindu bulk successful North India, by systematically denying Muslims their rights, ignoring their demands and discarding their aspirations.”
Mr. Ravikumar said, “Nowhere successful India, the Dalits person been sidelined similar they person been successful Tamil Nadu – politically, economically and socially. Atrocities are much successful Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and Rajasthan but condemnation complaint is more. The condemnation complaint is much due to the fact that Dalits are politically empowered...unlike successful Tamil Nadu.”
