https://thewire.in/caste/in-maharashtra-fadnaviss-foray-to-capture-bhima-koregaon
The BJP’s approach to Dalit cultural and historical spaces ...... involves a systematic encroachment into significant Dalit spaces such as Deeksha Bhumi, Chaitya Bhumi, and the Bhima-Koregaon obelisk, with the ultimate aim of embedding Hindutva narratives and neutralising radical Dalit assertion.
The BJP has infiltrated these spaces, appointing its loyalists to managing committees, and using state funding to exert influence and state machinery to control the narrative and logistics of these events.
Still another aspect of the stratagem is dilution of radical Dalit assertion. .. State control reduces the space for independent Dalit leaders to emerge and organise autonomously.