India News: "Aam Aadmi Party and BJP are spreading false propaganda. Yesterday BJP posted about Dera Ballan that Dera Ballan supports them, which Dera Ballan has
Congress Jalandhar candidate and former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday appealed to voters to disregard propaganda spread by Aam Aad
Congress Jalandhar candidate and former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday appealed to voters to disregard propaganda spread by Aam Aadmi Party and BJP with false claims of support of Ravidasi community s Dera Ballan.
Ahead of Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll, Cong accuses AAP govt of taking ‘undue credit’ over funding Guru Ravidass research centre, alleging that it first stopped grant for the project launched by the former and now ‘released it to claim full credit’
Ahead of the polls, Dera Sacha Sauda's infamous chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was released on furlough, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the head of another influential dera.
There are a numbers of Deras in Punjab. According to a study of 2006-2007, done by Ronki Ram, there were more than 9,000 Sikh and non-Sikh deras in the rural areas of Punjab. The distinguished nature of Deras in Punjab, established during the 19 century is that they acted as centres of dalit mobilization because the majority of the followers of these deras were people from
Mazhabi Sikhs, with the highest portion of 26.33% population among Dalits, are the largest group followed by Ravidasia and Ramdasias, which together constitute 20.76%. The Adharmis and Balmikis are 10.17% and 8.6% of the population respectively.