By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
After 50 Dalit families from Moradabad converted to Islam last week citing Yogi Government’s total negligence and upper caste violence against them, about 180 families of Saharanpur have announced that they too will leave Hinduism and convert to Buddhism if the UP government fails to act in the right manner.
These families come from Kapurpur, Igahari and Roopari towns of Saharanpur. Like last time, they immersed statues and photographs Hindu god figures in a river and announced to embrace Buddhism if Police and Thakurs do not stop their atrocities over them.
A majority of these families support and are part of the ‘Bheem Army’, the organisation which last week came to national attention after it started retaliating against the Thakurs as equals and in a decisive way.
For the past one month, Western UP district Saharanpur has been facing a series of violent incidents which was majorly against Dalits, and Thakurs of the area were responsible for inciting the violence. In the police investigation too, cases against Dalits were filed and nearly no case was registered against Thakurs of the area. In light of the same, several leaders of the Bheem Army have been arrested and have few gone underground. The Dalits of Saharanpur cited the biased actions of the Police as one of the reasons behind their decision.
Gautam, one of the leaders of the Bheem Army said, “Government must release leaders and members of Bheem Army, otherwise we will accept Buddhism with no worries.”