Jantar Mantar Protests LIVE: If Modi Was Pro-Dalit, His Policies Would Have Shown This, Says Rahul Gandhi

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Big news right now: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has joined protesters from the SC/ST and Dalit communities at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar where the agitators are demanding the release of all their leaders arrested under criminal charges after April’s Bharat Bandh. Addressing the protesters, Gandhi says the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi want to “marginalise” the weaker sections. The protesters are also demanding the arrest of all those involved in atrocities against Dalits and for the government of Madhya Pradesh to immediately make a public statement in line with the one made by Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje and announce that cases of atrocities against Dalits will be scrutinised on priority basis and those found arrested without valid reasons shall be released without any further delay.

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