Dalits to invite Amitabh Bachchan, Modi to Gujarat to ‘feel the stink’

AHMEDABAD: Dalits protesting against the Una flogging incident have decided to launch a postcard campaign called ‘Badbu Gujarat Ki’ (stink of Gujarat), in response

AHMEDABAD: Dalits protesting against the Una flogging incident have decided to launch a postcard campaign called ‘Badbu Gujarat Ki’ (stink of Gujarat), in response to the tourism department’s ‘Khushbu Gujarat Ki’ (scent of Gujarat) initiative spearheaded by actor Amitabh Bachchan.

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The Una Dalit Atyachar Ladat Samiti will launch the campaign on Tuesday, when thousands of postcards bearing the tagline ‘Badbu Gujarat Ki’ will be mailed to Bachchan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, inviting them to the state.

The postcards will invite them to “visit Gujarat and get a taste of stink left by cow carcases which have not been disposed by protesting Dalits ever since they pledged against it following the Una atrocity incident,” Una Dalit Atyachar Ladat Samiti convener Jignesh Mevani said on Sunday.

“We have given up disposing carcasses. Hundreds of cows are lying dead and stinking all over the place... Now that we have given up disposing dead cows, we will invite Bachchan and Modi to come to Gujarat, spend sometime and enjoy ‘Badbu Gujarat ki’,” Mevani said.