Cong workers to hold demo for Dalit Minister

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 15:08 [IST]

Puducherry, Mar 11 (UNI) Congress workers belonging to the Bahour Zone would hold a demonstration in front of Parliament on March 15 to press for the induction of Bahour Dalit MLA M Kandasamy into the Rangasamy cabinet.

Party sources said the Cabinet did not have a Dalit Minister after the resignation of Mr P Angalan in the backdrop of a case registered against him on the charges of assaulting his wife.

They decided to hold the demonstration as there was no move on the part of the government to induct another Dalit MLA in his place.

UNI

Topics: AGITATION-PONDY-MINISTER

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