LAW KUMAR MISHRA
PATNA:JDU will organise a mega Bhim Sambad at Veterinary College grounds near Patna Airport on Sunday to mobilise the Mahadalit voters.
According to the senior JDU leader and PWD minister,Ashok Chaudhuiry,about one lakh mahadalits are expected to attend the mega dialogue.Two days,later on Tuesday,union minister and LJP president,Pashupati Kumar Parasa,who is younger brother of the founder of the party is also hosting another mega event at Hajipur,20 kms from Patna.
Ashok Chaudhry had earlier organised Bhim Sammlelans in different districts . since September.The proposed mega event is being considered as an attempt to show the strength of dalits and mahadalits with JDU.
There are 22 mahadalit castes in Bihar.Chief mInister,Nitish Kumar in 2007 had set up Mahadalit Commission and sanctioned exclusive budgets for the promotion of mahadalits.Initially he had included only 21 dalits as Mahadalits,but later on persuasion by Ram Vilas Paswan,he included Paswans too as mahadalits.
In 2021,the Mahadalit Commission had recommended inclusion of Chamaras into the Mahadalit group.
Ashok Chaudhury who had been president of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee before joining JDU ,ten years back,is considered an influential mahadalit leader .He has invited the chief minister,Nitish Kumar to inaugurate the Sansad of mahadalits.