Massive turn out at Chalo Una rally; Radhika Vemula congratulates Dalits for forcing CM’s resignation

August 15, 2016 | Filed underAugust 2016 | Posted by rana

Una: Rohith Vemula’s mother Radhika Vemula unfurled the national flag in Una on Monday, during the Dalit Asmita Yatra, saying that the country belongs to all people, and not just to those who belonged to one religion or caste.

Organized to protest the atrocities against Dalits and the Mota Samadhiyala assault in particular, the Chalo Una rally in Gir Somnath district saw a massive turn out. Catch a glimpse of the crowd, in a video uploaded on Twitter by journalist Sudipto Mondal.

#ChaloUna Crowd comes alive at protest pic.twitter.com/133G4hyQlN

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

Besides Radhika and her son Raja, some of Rohith Vemula’s friends from the Hyderabad Centrall Unviersity including Sannakki Munna, Dhontha Prashanth were also present during the rally.

A miniature statue of Ambedkar surveys the crowd, as people on the stage, inlcuding Radhika Vemula on the far right, talk.

Radhika, who has become one of the faces of the Dalit assertion following her son Rohith’s death, addressed the gathering. She congratulated the Dalits of Gujarat for forcing Anandiben Patel to resign as chief minister, journalist Sudipto Mondal tweeted.

#ChaloUna RohithVemula’s mother, Radhika, “congratulations to Dalits of Gujarat for forcing Anandiben to resign as CM.” @htTweets

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

#ChaloUna RohithVemula’s mother RadhikaVemula,”Country belongs to all not one caste or religion” @htTweets

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

Sudipto also tweeted snippets of Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani’s speech.

#ChaloUna Jignesh Mewani speech: demands discussion on land allotment for Dalits in Gujarat Assembly on Aug 22-23 @htTweets

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

#ChaloUna Jignesh Mewani threatens rail-roko agitation in 30 days if 5 acres not given to each Dalit in #Gujarat @htTweets

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

#ChaloUna JineshMewani speech reveals leftist bent, says Dalits will stand by workers’ & farmers’ agitations @htTweets

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

He also alleged that the national media had decided to boycott the rally.

#ChaloUna most national TV channels decide to boycott Dalit protest at Una despite massive turnout pic.twitter.com/oPyfo7ZKsa

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

#ChaloUna activists allege threat perception,police harassment prevented bigger crowds frm turning up @htTweets pic.twitter.com/S9ZYg57i8J

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

He also tweeted that the Kanhaiya Kumar spoke to the people gathered and left the venue even as Radhika spoke. This distracted the crowd.

#ChaloUna KanhaiyaKumar walked out of event even as RadhikaVemula spoke, distracted crowd who missed RohithVemula’s mother speech@htTweets

— Sudipto Mondal (@mondalsudipto) August 15, 2016

Thousands of Dalits took an oath to not “clean shit” anymore, according to a Twitter user:

@jigneshmevani80 administers pledge to never dispose DeadCattle or CleanSewer #ChaloUna #DalitSangharsh #AsmitaYatra pic.twitter.com/ntuVhxn3lQ

— Ajnabi (@ajnabi_guy) August 15, 2016

Dalit Camera alleged that two journalists – one male and one female – were assaulted by miscreants. Upper caste men assaulted Dalits on their way to Una for the rally, Dalit Camera alleged:

#ChaloUna #DalitAsmitaYatra #DalitSangharsh #DalitMuslimUnity #dalitsrising pic.twitter.com/1ETpXvWXOP

— Dalit Camera (@DalitCamera) August 14, 2016

Source: The News Minute

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