{"id":286340,"date":"2018-05-01T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286340"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:43:11","slug":"caste-marking-on-chests-of-police-aspirants-in-bjp-ruled-mp-police-orders-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/caste-marking-on-chests-of-police-aspirants-in-bjp-ruled-mp-police-orders-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Caste marking on chests of police aspirants in BJP-ruled MP, police orders investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_286341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286341\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DcA6qTRXkAEakLp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-286341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DcA6qTRXkAEakLp-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"DcA6qTRXkAEakLp\" width=\"360\" height=\"223\" data-id=\"286341\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-286341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Twitter\/@RahulGandhi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Candidates who are appearing for the post of police constables from SC, ST and OBC categories in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Dhar District were reportedly labelled with their caste on their chest during their medical examination procedures at a district hospital on April 29.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is a serious matter and we have ordered investigation,\u201d\u00a0Superintendent of Police Birendra Singh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">He further said that no such instruction was given by the police to mention the caste of the candidates on their chests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Opposition parties have attacked BJP ruled MP government for alleged caste marking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">On April 30 Congress President Rahul Gandhi while condemning this BJP government\u2019s act in MP tweeted\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBJP sarkar ke jativadi ravaiye ne desh ki chhati par chhura mara hai. MP ke yuvaon ke seene par SC\/ST likhkar desh ke samvidhan par hamla kiya hai (BJP government\u2019s casteist attitude has stabbed the country in its chest. Writing SC\/ST on MP youths\u2019 chest amounts to attack on the Constitution).\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">BJP \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u0947 \u091c\u093e\u0924\u093f\u0935\u093e\u0926\u0940 \u0930\u0935\u0948\u092f\u0947 \u0928\u0947 \u0926\u0947\u0936 \u0915\u0940 \u091b\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u092a\u0930 \u091b\u0942\u0930\u093e \u092e\u093e\u0930\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0964 MP \u0915\u0947 \u092f\u0941\u0935\u093e\u0913\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u0940\u0928\u0947 \u092a\u0930 SC\/ST \u0932\u093f\u0916\u0915\u0930 \u0926\u0947\u0936 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u0902\u0935\u093f\u0927\u093e\u0928 \u092a\u0930 \u0939\u092e\u0932\u093e \u0915\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0964<br \/>\n\u092f\u0947 BJP\/RSS \u0915\u0940 \u0938\u094b\u091a \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u092f\u0939\u0940 \u0938\u094b\u091a \u0915\u092d\u0940 \u0926\u0932\u093f\u0924\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0917\u0932\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0939\u093e\u0902\u0921\u0940 \u091f\u0902\u0917\u0935\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u0925\u0940, \u0936\u0930\u0940\u0930 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091d\u093e\u0921\u0942 \u092c\u0902\u0927\u0935\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u0925\u0940, \u092e\u0902\u0926\u093f\u0930 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0918\u0941\u0938\u0928\u0947 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0926\u0947\u0924\u0940 \u0925\u0940\u0964 \u0939\u092e \u0907\u0938 \u0938\u094b\u091a \u0915\u094b \u0939\u0930\u093e\u090f\u0901\u0917\u0947\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ycqt1nEp0E\">pic.twitter.com\/ycqt1nEp0E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RahulGandhi\/status\/990856428465385472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">His tweet further reads this is the mindset of BJP\/RSS which saw pitchers hung on Dalits\u2019 necks, brooms tied to their body and their entry denied to temples and we have to defeat this mindset.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Ashok Gehlot, general secretary of All India Congress Committee also attacked the state government in his tweet \u201cThe treatment meted out to dalits in BJP ruled #MadhyaPradesh is shocking and condemnable. It speaks for itself; what the mindset of BJP leaders is and how their policies are discriminating against dalits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">BSP Supremo Mayawati said \u201cDoes it suit the BJP and company, and the prime minister himself, to remain silent, (and) not to condemn such an incident&#8230; This is the new and fresh example of BJP\u2019s new found love for Dalits for their political gains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Seeing the criticism of opposition leaders,\u00a0Dr Hitesh Bajpai, senior BJP leader and former media incharge, added \u201cNobody can support what happened in Dhar but what was done was not any casteist action. It was done for the sake of classification. An inquiry is being conducted and the guilty will be punished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">So far, none of the constables involved in the incident have lodged any complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates who are appearing for the post of police constables from SC, ST and OBC categories in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Dhar District were reportedly labelled with their caste on their chest during their medical examination procedures at a district hospital on April 29. \u201cIt is a serious matter and we have ordered investigation,\u201d\u00a0Superintendent of Police Birendra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":286341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}