Hundreds of activists belonging to Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (Revolutionary) set fire to the Manusmriti, a Hindu religious text that upholds the discriminative Varnashrama and caste system, in front of the statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at Jagat Circle in Kalaburagi on Monday.
Earlier, the activists took out a mock funeral procession of Manusmriti from SVP Circle to the Ambedkar statue at Jagat Circle in the city raising slogans against the text and the discriminative and oppressive ideology that the right-wing forces ply for their political end.
Women carried an effigy of the dead Manusmriti on their shoulders and set it on fire at Jagat Circle.
