Seven-time Dalit MP’s pain spilled out, said – I am saddened by not being included in Modi cabinet

National Desk: Karnataka Lok Sabha MP Ramesh Jigajinagi said that he is deeply saddened by the decision of BJP’s national leadership not to include him in the Union Cabinet. Jigajinagi, who comes from the Dalit community, has won the Lok Sabha elections for the seventh time in a row. He has won elections from Chikkodi three times and from Bijapur four times.

Only upper caste MPs have been made ministers

Ramesh said in a conversation with journalists that you people tell whether this is injustice or not. I am the only person from the Dalit community in the whole of South India who has won seven consecutive elections. Only upper caste MPs have been made ministers. Did the Dalit community not support the BJP? I am deeply shocked by not being made a cabinet minister. According to the report, he said that I am very hurt, I am the only Dalit MP to be elected to Parliament seven times in the whole of South India. Look at my fate, all the upper castes became cabinet ministers, did the Dalits not support the BJP?

Public pressure to become minister

Jigajinagi said that I do not want a cabinet post for myself. When I returned to my constituency, many people criticized me, many people had already warned me that the BJP is anti-Dalit. There is public pressure on me to become a minister at the Center. Is it fair or unfair? Jigajinagi served as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation from 2016 to 2019 in Narendra Modi’s first government. In the 2024 general election, Ramesh Jigajinagi defeated Raju Alagur of the Congress from Bijapur parliamentary constituency in Karnataka by a margin of 77,229 votes.

Courtesy : Hindi News