Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday accused BJP of nurturing a “Manuwadi system” that he said had become a curse for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and weaker sections of society. His remarks came after the death by suicide of senior Dalit IPS officer Y Puran Kumar.

In a post on X in Hindi, Kharge said the reported suicide of Kumar was not only “deeply shocking” but also a horrifying reflection of social injustice, inhumanity, and growing insensitivity. He expressed condolences to the officer’s family, saying that even a senior Dalit officer had been denied justice and a fair hearing under the BJP regime.

Kharge alleged that over the past 11 years, BJP had entrenched a “Manuwadi mentality” so deeply in the system that marginalised officers w

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