Congress ignores Dalits, Muslims in new Karnataka govt, says Mayawati
The Hindu
Ms. Mayawati said the Congress ignored the Dalit community.
BSP president Mayawati on Saturday accused the Congress of neglecting Dalits and Muslims while picking the new Karnataka chief minister and the deputy chief minister because of the "casteist mindset".
"After the Karnataka assembly elections, the Congress tried to suppress its internal strife by making D.K. Shivakumar the deputy chief minister. But why neglect Dalit and Muslim communities when these unitedly voted for the Congress' victory," she said in a tweet in Hindi.
Ms. Mayawati said the Congress ignored the Dalit community which wanted that one of its leaders be made the deputy chief minister.
"The Congress has not made any Dalit or Muslim deputy CM and it only shows its casteist mentality. It remembers these classes only during its bad days," the BSP supremo said.
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