Saharanpur's Rajputs Warn The BJP: Give Us Justice, Or Lose Our Votes | Read
In his palatial home in Saharanpur, in western Uttar Pradesh, the BJP lawmaker from here Raghav Lakhanpal is confronted by an angry group of Rajput men. They are relatives of 11 young men arrested by the UP police on charges of attacking Dalits who were returning from Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati rally earlier this week. One Dalit boy was shot dead, 15 were badly injured in the latest chapter in a cycle of sectarian violence that has rocked this region for close to a month now. The Rajputs, who consider themselves a core political base of the BJP, seem shaken by the arrests.
