Dalit sarpanch not allowed to hoist Indian flag, kicked, manhandled on Independence Day
Chhatarpur: An elderly Dalit sarpanch in Madhya Pradesh state of India was manhandled by an upper caste secretary of the gram panchayat on India’s Independence Day, the other day. The sarpanch was “kicked by the secretary” because he unfurled the national flag on the insistence of