Mumbai sources have reported that at the Panjrapol end of Mumbai’s Eastern Freeway, a handful of cars and motorbikes and their owners wait, stalled by about 80 to 100 protesters who have blocked the road for over an hour and a voice which belongs to a boy who is just 12 or 13 years old.
According to sources their target is two public transport buses, windscreens already smashed at an earlier protest site, emptied of passengers and so the buses have been made to halt, drivers offloaded. Many motorists were astonished on seeing the children participating in the protests as Dalit organizations which are called as state wide bandh.
Further according to sources this issue of children
participating in the Dalit protests, especially in stone pelting incidents, has
drawn attention of many after a video of a boy, who is four or five years old, tells
the camera person that he is in Pune to get justice for attacks on “our
community”.
