The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : National conference of Dalits, minorities

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Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

National conference of Dalits, minorities

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: The Popular Front of India will hold a national conference titled "Empower India" between February 15 and 17. It will focus on motivating underprivileged and marginalised sections to work for human rights and justice.

Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Popular Front of India chairperson E. Abubacker said the aim was to "create an atmosphere favourable for equally empowering all sections of people" by bringing together all the marginalised, such as minority communities, backward classes and Dalits on one platform. The event will be held at the Palace Grounds.

Convener of the conference E.M. Abdurahman said that the "fruits of development have not reached all in equal measure" and minority communities and Dalits shared common grouses as those who had been the worst hit in the discriminatory mode of development. Several documents, the latest being the Sachar Committee Report, illustrated how developmental programmes were lopsided.

Mr. Abdurahman said several activists and academics, including Teesta Setalvad, Zafarul Islam Khan, V.T. Rajashekar and Gauri Lankesh, were expected to participate in a series of discussions. The conference would conclude with a public meeting on February 17 at the Palace Grounds in which at least 50,000 people were expected to participate.

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