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National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) (1498 words) |
 | Hence, Dalit women went to the Chettiyar area of the village to demand justice, to be met with stones pelted at them by the Chettiyars. |
| Almost all the property of the Dalits was destroyed and the police proceeded to conduct raids in nearby villages, arresting several men and women on different dates and taking them to the police station, where they were harassed and severely beaten up before being produced in front of a Judicial Magistrate. |
| Tirumavalavan, MLA (belonging to the Dalit Panthers of India) in the State Legislative Assembly on 15th March 2002. |
| Isolated in Tamil Nadu (1620 words) |
| Although both the Dalit outfits had been with the DMK-led front since the 2001 elections and had been expressing themselves in favour of a secular alliance against the Bharatiya Janata Party under the DMK leadership, Karunanidhi was in no mood to accommodate them in the DPA. |
| Referring to the isolation of Dalit parties, Thirumavalavan told Frontline that the marginalisation of Dalits and minorities was not new and it had been happening in Indian politics for many decades." For centuries, such sidelining of Dalits from political power has been a big stumbling block to the resurgence of these sections," he said. |
| Thirumavalavan did not agree with the view that the present Dalit isolation was because the Dalit parties had strayed away from the path of agitational politics and their militancy had blunted during the last few years. |
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