NEW DELHI: Dalit activists who are planning a protest against the Narendra Modi government and called for an all India bandh on August 9, have appealed to the members of Lok Sabha belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to vote against the government, during the trust vote in the House slated for Friday.

The appeal was put out on Twitter on Thursday saying: “We request all Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe MPs to vote against the government when no confidence motion is presented in Parliament”.

But when asked about the whips that have been issued by the various parties for their members on Lok Sabha, Dalit activist Ashok Bharti , one of the coordinators of the strike said, “party whip on no-confidence motion is anti-democratic. There should be conscience-voting on this”. He added, “If they (SC\ST MPs) feel government has not done justice to people belonging to their communities, then they must.”

