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Manu’s effigy burnt

The Sankhyapati Bhagidari Party took out a march from Kargil Chowk to Dakbangla square on 23 November to protest the humiliation of Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and burnt an effigy of Manu

PATNA: The Sankhyapati Bhagidari Party took out a march from Kargil Chowk to Dakbangla square on 23 November to protest the humiliation of Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and burnt an effigy of Manu. Suryoday Paswan, president of the party, said that Manu’s laws were the springboard for casteist discrimination and Aryan-non-Aryan division.

 

Published in the January 2015 issue of the Forward Press magazine


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