The Karnataka State Dalit Sangharsh Samiti State committee staged a protest in Kalaburagi city to protest against the government’s cancellation of graveyard allotted to the Dalit community at Kottan Hipparaga village in Aland taluk of Kalaburagi district.

Samiti State convener Arjun Bhadre in a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai stated that the land area of 1.17 acre on survey no. 17 at Kottan Hipparaga village was allotted as separate burial ground for Dalits, and the same was mentioned in records since 2005 to 2023 February…

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