Protests against negligence

GULBARGA: The Communist Party of India decided to lay siege Bilwar gram panchayat of Jewargi taluk on Friday to protest against the ‘negligence’ towards Dalits of Jamakhandi village, district unit secretary of CPI Shoukat Ali Alur said.He told Express here on Thursday that, the party’s office-bearers, along with him, visited Jamakhandi on Wednesday and found that over 40 people were suffering from different water-borne diseases like GE Jaundice. As per the report he received on Thursday another 15 person fell sick of GE, Alur said. The water in the Dalit locality is contaminated and there are no other sources of drinking water for them in the village, he alleged.