DHARNA TO RESTORE BURIAL GROUND TO THE DALITS OF SORISPURAM,TUTICORIN

DHARNA TO RESTORE BURIAL GROUND TO THE DALITS OF SORISPURAM,TUTICORIN

Nearly 170 families of dalit (Schedule Caste)community belonging to Pallarsection, residing in Sorispuram ,near Collectorate of Tuticorin are making use of the burial ground located near the main road to office of SP and banks of Buckle Odai covering an area of 100 cents.This land was given to the Dalit people 75 years ago by the then Soris families. Hence the village was named as Sorispuram.The dalit people of Sorispuram are all along making use of these burial ground for their families. All of a sudden during February of this year, the heirs of Sories family bulldozed the burial ground and fenced the burial ground and the purampoke area of Buckle Odai and put up boards owning the entire land of the burial ground thus denying entry into the burial grounds. If any death occurred, there is no place of burial ground and it will create law and order problem.Thus the denial of right to entry to the burial ground is a blatant violation of Human rights of entire dalit people of Sorispuram.It is also an offence u/s of Prevention of SC/ST Attrocities Act

The aggrieved dalit people led by the Tamilnadu Untouchability Eradication Front of Tuticorin district staged a powerful dharna before the Collectorate,Tuticorin.The Dharna was presided over by Esakkimuthu,District Convener.P.sampath, State Convener of Tamilnadu Untouchability Eradication Front addressed the gathering and warned the district administration and the state government that if the burial ground is not restored within 30 days time, direct action to enter the burial ground now abrogated by the vested interest people Will be resorted to and he also fixed the date as May 15 for the entry into the burial ground.S.K.mahendran MLA and P.Sampath are leading the direct action on 15.5.10.

Others spoke in the Dharna are K.Kanagaraj(Dist.Secretary of CPI(M)),K.Ponraj(Dist .President of CITU),Puviraj(Dist.Secretary of DFFI),Fr.Sundarymynthen(Coordinator of Christian Valvurimai Iyakkam)K.P.Perumal(Dist.Secretary of TN Agriculturist Association)Asan(Secretary of Tuticorin ST Employees Association)Sekar(Divisional Vice President of Insurance Corporation Employees Union)Nagarajan(Member of Dt.Adhidravidar Welfare Committee etc spoke. Vai.Balu proposed vote of thanks.

By P.Esakkimuthu,District Convener,TN Untouchability Eradication front,Tuticorin District(ttnuef@gmail.com)