VADODARA, May 19: More than 100 Bharatiya Dalit Panther (BDP) members, an organisation of backward classes, staged a demonstration in front of the District Collectorate on Tuesday demanding immediate action in four cases retrenchment, rape, abduction and non-payment of salaries affecting the poor people in city.A delegation led by BDP leaders Arvind Parmar and Subhash Palekar called on the district deputy resident collector C R Kharsan and submitted a memorandum in this context. They threatened to intensify their stir if the collectorate failed to intervene in 10 days time.The memorandum alleged that about 108 permanent employees of Yogini Vasanti Arogya Mandir, Goya Gate area, run by a trust, have been on a relay hunger strike for the past four months but no government agencies have not taken any initiative to solve their problem. They had been sacked en masse by the hospital management. All their pleas to the labour department and the collectorate had become infructuous, they alleged.They added that the rural police had also been trying to hush up a minor girl's rape case in Moxi village, Savli taluka and `abduction' of another minor in Mavli in Dabhoi taluka. They had been repeatedly urging the Social Welfare Department as well as the police for the past four months to take actions but of no avail.Seven employees of Satyadev Chemicals Limited, Pratapnagar had not been paid their for the past 13 months, the BDP alleged.Though Kharsan assured them of earliest actions in the said issues, the BDP office-holders threatened to intensify their stir if the collectorate failed to redress their plight. They said they had decided to sit on fast unto death in front of the collectorate to seek justice.
