Tuesday, January 12, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Cong forgets Meira is Speaker, names her in Bihar PCC list

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Cong-forgets-Meira-is-Speaker--names-her-in-Bihar-PCC-list/566402

Cong forgets Meira is Speaker, names her in Bihar PCC list
D K Singh Posted online: Tuesday , Jan 12, 2010 at 0405 hrs

New Delhi : In utter disregard for Constitutional authorities and laws
against use of caste names under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities)
Act, the Congress has appointed Lok Sabha Speaker Meira
Kumar as a Permanent Invitee to the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee
(PCC). Her caste name — she belongs to the Dalit community — has been
specified against her name in the list of PCC office-bearers issued by
Jagdish Tytler, AICC in-charge of Bihar.
The Congress has overlooked the fact that Meira Kumar holds a
Constitutional office and cannot, therefore, hold any party post. In
fact, the ruling party specified caste names against each of the 562
office-bearers in the jumbo PCC constituted by state Congress
president Anil Sharma and approved by the AlCC last week.

"Only Anil Sharma and I have the list. Meira Kumar's name is not
there," said Tytler. Shown a copy of the PCC list signed by him, he
said: "I don't know. It is Anil Sharma's mistake."

On the use of caste names, Tytler said: "We had to name the castes
because out of over 45 castes (in the state), barely four have been
dominating the PCC so far. We did it to ensure representation of all
castes."

While parties do use caste names in internal documents to ensure fair
representation of all castes in different bodies and during allocation
of poll tickets, it is probably the first time that the Congress has
publicly declared castes of its office-bearers.

This use of caste names, apparently done to woo different communities,
comes at a time when the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) prepares to
launch its membership drive in the state from Tuesday. AICC general
secretary Rahul Gandhi, an advocate of politics of development rather
than caste and religion, is set to launch the party's campaign later
this month. He is scheduled to make an extensive tour of the state to
promote the party's membership drive.

Meanwhile, a section of senior party leaders from Bihar were learnt to
have launched a signature campaign to protest against the constitution
of a jumbo PCC. Many leaders were planning to resign from the newly
constituted body in protest against inclusion of "outsiders" and those
with tainted records. Senior leaders were camping in New Delhi to meet
Congress president Sonia Gandhi in this connection.

The timing of the constitution of the PCC has also come as a surprise
since the AICC is set to announce the schedule for organisation
elections in a few days.


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