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Using Rajasthan state politics as a case study, Prof Shyam Lal shows that the crisis of Dalit leadership is not because the Dalit leaders are inept or are indifferent to the plight of the Dalits but because of the upper-caste leaders who ignore their Dalit colleagues and portray them as incompetent, writes Kanwal Bharti

It is not in keeping with the Constitution. It has many internal contradictions and is an attempt to stifle the basic spirit of the Constitution. First, the government should have set up a commission and then arrived at a decision based on its report. But rushing the Bill in this manner won’t stand judicial scrutiny