Interest not only in Dalits, in other castes too: Rahul

I am trying to understand Dalit's lot, but I have been meeting everyone, says Rahul Gandhi.

His visits to Dalit households may have caught the media spotlight, but the Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said it was not a new-found interest.

“I am trying to understand their lot. But I have been meeting everyone. I have met tribals in Madhya Pradesh. You (media) are making it out that I am meeting only dalits and tribals, but I am meeting everybody,” Gandhi told reporters.

“When I go to a village in UP, there is no signboard which says Dalits only here. There are Brahmins and there are people from other communities”, he said while talking to mediapersons at the dinner hosted by PM Manmohan Singh on the occasion of the UPA completing four years

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The 37-year-old MP Amethi has been under intense attack from BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati, who has criticised him for his visits to Dalit families.

“This is not something which I have started doing now, I have been doing this in my constituency during my visits there,” he said.

“If you go back in history, you will find that I and my sister have been doing this regularly, so has my mother and father,” he added.

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