WEST BENGAL- Budget Broadsides

the Sattiti, Soon afterwards the Samiti had started to lobby for political patronage and for 'protection against aggressions and attacks' by harijans. A list was compiled of 30 landlords 'killed' between 1976 and 1979. All top caste leaders, irrespective of parly colour, began to pour on to the com- mon platform. It is alleged that the plan to execute the Pipara harijans was prepared at the residence of a prominent personage in Patna and that the executors were given shelter by different political figures.