MIRPURKHAS, Nov 17: The president, Scheduled Castes Federation, Surendar Valasai, has said that the country’s mainstream political parties and upper caste elements had deprived the Dalits of their due share in the political representation on both the national and provincial level.

He also said that the Sindh administration had added to the miseries of Dalits in Tharparkar by discriminating against them in the distribution of wheat as aid for drought victims.

In a press statement issued on Sunday, he said that the wheat distribution had been entrusted to the Tapedars who were influenced by the so-called upper caste Thakurs.

He said he had sent a communique to the chief secretary, Sindh, K. B. Rind, drawing his attention towards the discrimination against the scheduled castes by the Thar administration regarding the distribution of wheat.

He said that the elected councillors and Nazimeen, belonging to the scheduled castes, had complained that thousands of Meghwar, Kolhi, and Bheel families had not received wheat as yet, and added that in villages like Mooran Tali, Tharia Bheel, Nanisar, Pabohar, Hothear, and Mithi Town, and several villages of Diplo, Chachro, and parts of Nagarparkar open discrimination had been exercised by the officials in the distribution of wheat.

He said that in Tharparkar, the Thakurs had deliberately denied the scheduled castes of relief.

He urged the federal government to eliminate the caste system and take steps to stop the discrimination towards the scheduled castes.

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