Atrocities against Dalits on the rise in Telangana: Congress

Congress on Sunday accused Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of pursuing 'anti-Dalit' policies in the state saying that atrocities against Dalits were on the rise in Telangana.

Hyderabad: Congress on Sunday alleged that atrocities against Dalits were on the rise in Telangana and accused Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of pursuing 'anti-Dalit' policies in the state.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee President Uttam Kumar Reddy flayed the police for detaining him, party MLAs and workers while they tried to march to Mallaram village in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district to meet the family of a Dalit youth who, he alleged, was killed on July 6.

Reddy accused the police of neither probing nor taking any action against those who killed the Dalit youth.

"We wanted to meet the family and also local authorities to seek justice for the Dalit youth. However, we were stopped from visiting Mallaram and taken into custody by police," a party release quoted the Nalgonda MP as having said.

Reddy alleged that there has been a huge rise in atrocities against Dalits in Telengana ever since the Telangana Rashtra Samithi came to power.

(PTI Report)