DMK MP RS Bharathi stirred fresh controversy after airing demeaning and derogatory statements against journalists, people of North India and the Dalits.
On 21st September 2019, a 15-year-old minor Dalit girl was gang-raped by three men in Ghosia village of Kaushambi district near Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. The criminals had also filmed the act while the girl had been begging them for mercy in Allah's name.
Sudhir Dhawale in his book alleged that Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's father late Balasaheb Thackeray presided over killings of thousands of Dalits in Maharashtra