12-06-2006, 10:01 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Dec 6 2006, 03:43 PM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Dec 6 2006, 03:43 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Ambedkar statue found desecrated in Allahabad</b><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Ambedkar statue was found damaged in the premises of Allahabad University in Uttar Pradesh early on Tuesday morning after which the students blocked roads and burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, accusing him of being responsible for the<b> "insult to Dalits' pride".</b>
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In Karnataka, police lobbed teargas shells and charged with batons at Mannaekkelli village and Bidar town as Dalits torched buses and hurled stones after a string of footwear was found on the fence around a yet-to-be-unveiled statue of Ambedkar.
Police said the Dalits resorted to stone-pelting and torched at least two buses in Mannaekkelli in Humnabad taluk of Bidar district. Violence later spread to Bidar town, where scores of people resorted to stone-pelting damaging three to four buses.
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Karnataka 4 months ago.
Idols removed from temples, thrown into the Bhima
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Dalit youths removed the idols from the Margamma Temple, considered the biggest in the village, and installed the portraits of Buddha, Basaveshwara and B.R. Ambedkar at the temple entrance.
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What was done by government? Did temple devotees stone bus and torch public property?
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In Karnataka, police lobbed teargas shells and charged with batons at Mannaekkelli village and Bidar town as Dalits torched buses and hurled stones after a string of footwear was found on the fence around a yet-to-be-unveiled statue of Ambedkar.
Police said the Dalits resorted to stone-pelting and torched at least two buses in Mannaekkelli in Humnabad taluk of Bidar district. Violence later spread to Bidar town, where scores of people resorted to stone-pelting damaging three to four buses.
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Karnataka 4 months ago.
Idols removed from temples, thrown into the Bhima
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Dalit youths removed the idols from the Margamma Temple, considered the biggest in the village, and installed the portraits of Buddha, Basaveshwara and B.R. Ambedkar at the temple entrance.
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What was done by government? Did temple devotees stone bus and torch public property?