Rozgar Adhikar Yatra: Brutal attack in Surguja

Introduction | Basic information | Prachar material | Reports from the Yatra | Yatra attacked in Surguja | Jan Manch on 2 July | Media reports | Photographs

The Rozgar Adhikar Yatra was brutally attacked and lathi-charged on 4 June by a group of policemen in civilian clothes, armed with lathis and loaded AK-47s. For an eye-witness account of the event click here (for the Hindi translation click here).

Press Coverage related to the attack:

• Outrage in Balrampur
• Dreze attacked as he looked like Naxal: Cops
• Assault on Dreze a case of mistaken identity: Ch'garh police
• Rozgar Adhikar Yatra participants lathicharged
• Noted economist Jean Dreze beaten up
• Chhattisgarh orders probe into assault on economist
• Dreze assault:'Mistaken identity', says Chhattisgarh police
• BBC Hindi
• Beasts in Uniform
• Assault on a yatra (Frontline, 1 July 2005)
• Where parties fear to tread (Economic Times, 10 June 2005)