A house was built for a Dalit couple working as sanitation workers in the municipality 5 years ago under the Prime Minister's Housing Program, but the village council threw away the soil of the place where the house was located, saying that even the land where the Dalits lived would be impure.
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Dalit Deepak Malik Dom of Aurhi-5 of Siraha was also happy when the Maha Yajna was held in his own village. But his happiness did not last long. The organizer Bajrangi Baba ordered to demolish Deepak's house saying that Dalits should not live around the hall of Maha Yagya. Even the soil of the house where the Dalits live is said to be impure.
The Dalit family, which was near the place of worship for the 'Vishnu Mahayagya' to be held from Chait 17 on the side of the Hulaki road in Aurhi, has now been displaced. The group led by organizer Bajrangi Baba, rural municipality president Yadav and former ward president Dilip Yadav has uprooted the Dalit family and built a secluded tower beyond the human settlement.
The police and local leaders in the village have expressed their silent approval even though illegal acts and injustice are being done under the leadership of the chairman of the rural municipality. Deepak Malik Dom and Anita Malik Dom, who work as sanitation workers in other rural villages, have not even been able to file a complaint for fear of being fired from their jobs. The family of 7 including Deepak and Anita from Dom community has been moved to a secluded place about 500 meters away from the place where the Maha Yagya will be held by building a temporary bamboo house.
The poor Dom family, who have been living there for 30 years, was built a two-room concrete house 5 years ago with the help of the central government budget by the 'Janata Awas Program' in coordination with the village council. So much so, that they are living untouchable, even the soil of their house has been dug up and thrown away.
The Dom family has now built a two-room thatch house on about 2 dhur of land in a secluded area of the village. As Bajrangi Baba said, village president Shivji Yadav and former ward president Dilip Yadav themselves came and demolished the house saying that they had to perform a great yajna.
in yellow clothes Rural Municipality President Shivji Yadav and locals. Photo: Vinay Azad/Kantipur
There is no drinking water in the place where they have been moved. As the electricity is not connected, they are forced to light tuki. "We used to live happily in our house," said Anita, crying, "but now we are settled in a lonely place, there was our own chapakal, there is no water here." Son Arjan is sad because he cannot speak because he is weak and because he is a Dalit.
'The houses of other castes there were not demolished, what was the problem with our house during the Mahayagya?' He narrated, 'Because of the dome, the dozer ran on our house, the removal of the soil from the place where our house was is also confirmed.' According to him, father Deepak and mother Anita work as cleaners in the rural municipality. Arjun said that he could not say anything because he was afraid that he would be fired if he spoke against it.
Chairman of rural municipality Yadav admitted that the house was destroyed but said that he did not do so because it was untouched. "The village council is planning to set up an agricultural market at the place where their house is," he says, "We are trying to do well, there is no need to argue about it." Photo : Vinay Azad/Kantipur
Former ward president Dilip claimed that it was not wrong to remove the Marik family from there because they had built another house. Kavuli Paswan, a former member of the National Dalit Commission, who lives in another rural municipality, has demanded action against those involved, saying that they were not touched because they were Doms.
