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Lucknow, May 2: Uttar Pradesh Minister Suresh Rana is caught in a controversy after he was seen eating food cooked by ‘halwai’ during his “surprise” visit at a Dalit’s home in Aligarh. Videos of Rana featsing at the Dalit family’s house are going viral on the Internet. Rana can be seen eating food pre-cooked by a cook and not by the Dalit family at their home. The video shows a coffee machine, Bisleri water bottles, gulab jamun and poori chholey among other dishes served in large vessels at the Dalit’s home when Rana visited.
The Congress has hit out at Rana saying the Bharatiya Janata Party doesn’t respect Dalits but only wants their vote. Congress leader Rashid Alvi, while speaking to Zee News Hindi, said that Rana shouldn’t have visited the Dalit family’s house if he had to insult them like this.
Rana, however, defended himself saying that it was the Dalit families that made such arrangements since he had more people accompanying him to Lohagarh in Aligarh district. He said that he ate the food cooked by both the Dalit family as well as the halwai.
Lohagadh(Aligarh): Rajnish Kumar, Dalit man at whose house UP Minister Suresh Rana had dinner yesterday says, ‘I didn’t even know they are coming for dinner,they came suddenly.All food.water and cutlery they had arranged from outside’ pic.twitter.com/TIXMVtV825
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) May 2, 2018
Rajnish, the Dalit man whose house Rana visited, said that the minister was unaware of whose house he was visiting. He said that when Rana arrived, he was made to sit and eat the food that was served.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked BJP ministers and leaders to visit villages where SCs/STs constitute over 50 per cent of the population. Under the ‘Gram Swaraj Abhiyan’, the MPs, MLAs and ministers have been asked to spend at least one night in such villages and ensure that all the families there are covered under government schemes. Over the past few months, BJP leaders including party president Amit Shah have been seen visiting Dalit families and eating food cooked by them at their homes.
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