Brahmins stop Dalits baraat apologise later

  • | Tuesday | 12th February, 2019

They used casteist slur and manhandled our family members”.Then the bride’s family immediately called up UP 100. They also allegedly forced the groom to walk to the bride’s house. In December last year, a group of Thakurs in Etah reportedly beat up baratis of a Dalit youth for making merry in the wedding procession and carrying posters of Bhimrao Ambedkar. To save the situation baratis decided to go to the bride’s house without the procession and music. He claimed that the wedding procession wasn’t blocked and the Brahmin family had only objected to playing of loud music as their children’s examinations were going on.Last year, a Dalit couple in Kasganj district had fought with authorities for several months to allow them to take out a wedding procession through streets where mainly Thakurs lived.

AGRA: In another tale of Dalits being denied their right to life with dignity, dominant Brahmin of Musmuna village in Mathura stopped the baratis of a local girl from Valmiki sub-caste from taking out the ceremonial procession.The incident took place on Sunday night when a Jatav groom , Mahesh Kumar from Palwal’s Peergarhi tappa village, was taking out his wedding procession to the bride Kajal’s home in Musmuna village. The bride’s family members, who were with baraatis noticed a tractor-trolley, which blocked the way to the venue, just 500 meters before it.Bride’s uncle, Vijyendra Singh told TOI, “We requested the Brahmin family to remove the tractor-trolley as it was blocking the way, but they did not listen to us. They used casteist slur and manhandled our family members”.Then the bride’s family immediately called up UP 100. Following this, the members of Brahmin family removed the tractor-trolley, but a few youths from their family stopped the DJ from playing music and snatched instruments of the band accompanying the barat.Singh said, “Even we could have retaliated to this grave provocation but we didn’t do so as the wedding ceremony would have got affected”. To save the situation baratis decided to go to the bride’s house without the procession and music. Singh told TOI that majority of the houses in the village belong to Jatavs and only a few to Brahmins.He said, “We went to police station on Monday to lodge a complaint but the entire staff was busy with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Vrindavan, so we came back”. However, when we went there again today, the police intervened and a compromise was arrived after the Brahmin family apologised, Singh said.Station house officer of Naujheel police station, Shyam Singh said that matter had been resolved. He claimed that the wedding procession wasn’t blocked and the Brahmin family had only objected to playing of loud music as their children’s examinations were going on.Last year, a Dalit couple in Kasganj district had fought with authorities for several months to allow them to take out a wedding procession through streets where mainly Thakurs lived. In December last year, a group of Thakurs in Etah reportedly beat up baratis of a Dalit youth for making merry in the wedding procession and carrying posters of Bhimrao Ambedkar. They also allegedly forced the groom to walk to the bride’s house.

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