Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan

The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Friday allowed dalit outfit Bhim army to hold a meet at Reshimbagh grounds near RSS main center, on the conditions that it will be a workers' meet and should not be used as a political forum or used to hold protests. Bhim army chief chandrashekhar azad ravan will have to give an undertaking to abide by the conditions.

Addressing a rally at Reshimbagh on Saturday, Bhim Army chief chandrashekhar azad ravan called for a ban on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Bhim Army began its meeting at Reshimbagh ground right next to the RSS administrative complex as speakers call out they are right there at RSS' doorstep to speak up for their rights.

A stage and tent, set up for Jan Adhikar Party leader Pappu Yadav's campaign rally, collapsed on Saturday. He was addressing people in Muzaffarpur's Minapur Assembly constituency when the incident took place.

Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Friday denied making provocative speeches in Pune and inciting violence at the Koregaon Bhima rally on January 1, saying that the charges against him were “politically motivated”.

Accused of rioting, Chandrashekhar Azad was arrested from Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh on June 8, 2017 by a Special Task Force (STF) team of the Uttar Pradesh police. After about six months in jail, he was slapped with the National Security Act (NSA).

Urging students of Bahujan and other discriminated communities to take up active politics, Radhika Vemula said until these communities are represented in Parliament, the community will have to rely on others to be heard.

Police stopped chandrashekhar azad ravan, the Dalit activist and chief of Bhim Army, from visiting an area in Indirapuram where tension had flared up last week over an anti-encroachment drive near a mosque that took a communal colour.

Bhim Army chief chandrashekhar azad ravan, who along with his supporters was on his way to meet a minor Unnao girl undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city, staged a sit-in at the Ganga Barrage after being stopped by the police on Monday evening.

In Roorkee's Belda village, where tensions erupted after a Dalit youth was found dead on June 12 and local residents blamed the rod community for what they claimed was murder, members of the rod community have decided to host a mahapanchayat.

Under-graduate students of Azim Premji University (APU) on Thursday staged a day-long protest to register their opposition to CAA and NRC and also express solidarity with their peers in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Milia University. The students returned to campus on Tuesday after a semester break. The protest inside the campus was out of bounds for media and outsiders.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate 16 infrastructure projects worth Rs 30 crore in Ghaziabad on Wednesday. Projects include a hospital, hostel, and roads. He will also lay foundations for additional public facilities. This visit is ahead of bypolls for the Ghaziabad assembly seat, which became vacant after MLA Atul Garg was elected to the Lok Sabha.

Hundreds of students, politicians, civil society members and activists, among them Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, joined the Citizens’ March in support of the protesting students of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The march on Saturday from Mandi House to Parliament saw outsiders expressing solidarity with JNU students on their demand for the withdrawal of hostel fee hike and “for equality in education.”