Gujarat MLA and prominent Dalit politician Jignesh Mevani demanded the suspension of Mahisagar District Collector Neha Kumari on Wednesday, accusing her of making anti-Dalit comments.
Jignesh Mevani, Congress MLA from Gujarat and convener of the Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch, on Monday, alleged threat to his life from Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) (SC/ST Cell) Rajkumar Pandian.
Prominent Dalit youth leader and Gujarat Congress working president Jignesh Mevani launched a crowdfunding campaign ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections.
A court in Ahmedabad on Friday sentenced Gujarat Congress's working president and prominent Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani MLA and 18 others to six months of simple imprisonment in a 2016 case of rioting.
Independent Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and nine others were convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment by a magisterial court in Gujarat on Thursday in a five-year-old case of holding an 'Azadi march' without permission.
An Assam court has sharply criticised the state police for trying to implicate Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani in a "manufactured case" of assault on a woman police officer.