LAHAN, June 2: Speakers at a programme organized here on Saturday blamed the National Dalit Commission that it discriminated Lohar people belonging to the Madhesi dalits in a number of 60,000.
They blamed the Commission while speaking at the First District Gathering of Bishwokarma Lohar Sewa Committee. The concerned experts should include the rights of Lohar dalits in the constitution, they demanded.
Moreover, they raised grave concern over government’s discriminatory eye to the Terai Lohar as they are not called dalits while the same lohar (kamis) are dalits in hilly region.
Terai Lohar should be identified as dalits, they reiterated.
Speakers at the programme were Central Treasurer of Dalit Indigenous Party, Dille Mijar, Dr Sita Ram Raya, Laxman Thakur, Syam Sharma, Raj Kishor Sharma, Ram Bhagat Thakur and Prahlad Sharma among others.
Some 100 Lohar people from Siraha, Saptari, Dhanusha, Sarlahi and Sunsari districts had participated in the gathering.
Issuing a press release the Committee warned of waging nation-wide protest if the Teari Lohar were not treated as hilly Lohar (kamis).
Source : Gorkhapatra
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