Five members of a Dalit family commit suicide

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Posted online: Thursday , January 24, 2008 at 03:19:58

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Bhubaneswar, January 24: Apparently distressed over frequent quarrels in the family due to acute poverty, a Dalit woman alongwith her four daughters committed suicide by drinking pesticide in Orissa's Cuttack district, police said on Thursday.

The 45-year-old woman and her daughters in the age group 4-20 committed suicide on Wednesday night at Patasundarpur village in the district. The members of the family would often quarrel due to acute poverty, Govindpur police station officer-in-charge B K Nanda said.

Woman's husband Kailash Chandra Sethy allegedly had a fight with her on Wednesday night at their residence, 40 km from Bhubaneswar.

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What is dalit? by Vivek on 24 Jan 2008

I still don't understand why media use the term dalit. What this word dalit means? Chrsitian missionaries coinded this term to demonise low class hindus and convert them. Now the same missionaries asking for dalit christian reservation. Now they called it Dalit caste. There is no word called dalit in the Constitution. Media must use the term Scheduled Caste, SC, community, which is the right word. Suicides have no castes, there are thousand of suicides among farmers. Congress-UPA-left govt is a mafia-elite-rich peoples govt. Congress fooled the poor by aam addmi slogans and got their votes. Why there are no suicide death in Gujarat? Because, Gujarati works and found a real good party and govt. Only BJP can save the nation.

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