Bhim Army chief in TIME's emerging leaders' list

NEW DELHI: Five Indian-origin personalities, including Chandra Shekhar Aazad of the Bhim Army are part of the TIME magazines annual list of 100 "emerging leaders who are shaping the future". The 2021 TIME100 Next features highlights 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future.

The others on the list are Twitter's lawyer VijayaGadde, UK's Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, doctor and Executive Director of non-profit Get Us PPE Shikha Gupta and founder of non-profit UpsolveRohanPavuluri.

The Time profile on Aazad says, "Chandra ShekharAazad, 34, is a Dalit — a member of India's most oppressed caste group. The movement he leads, the Bhim Army, runs schools to help Dalits escape poverty through education. It also practices a distinct brand of assertiveness, sweeping into villages on loud motorbikes to protect victims of caste-based violence and organizing provocative demonstrations against discrimination".

It adds that in September 2020, when police in the state of Uttar Pradesh delayed investigation of the fatal gang-rape of a 19-year-old Dalit woman, allegedly perpetrated by four dominant-caste men, Aazad and the Bhim Army spearheaded a campaign for justice. (IANS)

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