Saturday, April 23, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Maya to Hazare: How can you forget an SC member?

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maya-to-Hazare-How-can-you-forget-an-SC-member/articleshow/8062817.cms

Maya to Hazare: How can you forget an SC member?
TNN | Apr 23, 2011, 05.23am IST

LUCKNOW: A day after pledging support to Anna Hazare in fight against
corruption, UP chief minister Mayawati on Friday attacked the social
activist and Congress-led UPA government for not including any
scheduled caste member in joint committee for drafting Jan Lokpal
Bill. She demanded that the committee should be reconstituted and
include a non-political scheduled caste member.

Without naming anybody, the UP chief minister also said that the
committee should distance itself from those whose integrity is
doubted. Maya's attack has come at a time when the joint committee is
facing crisis. Committee's co-chairperson and senior Supreme Court
advocate Shanti Bhushan and his lawyer son Prashant Bhushan, who is
also a member of the committee, are under pressure to quit in the wake
of CD and land deal controversies.

Significantly, the BSP had on Thursday announced support for Anna and
accused Congress leaders of levelling unnecessary allegations against
his team members.

Addressing media persons, Mayawati said that none of the members, five
each nominated by Hazare and UPA government, are from scheduled caste
category. She said that Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar was a dalit and was
found to be the most suitable person to draft the Indian Constitution.
Hence, she said, she could not understand why the UPA government and
the civil society members did not provide representation to the
scheduled castes in the joint drafting committee.

Maya attacked Congress by accusing it of castist mentality. "Congress
party talks about dalits but does not involve them in important
decision making process," she said. In the same vein, she targeted
Anna saying "Anna belongs to Maharashtra, the birth place of
Babasaheb. Maharashtra is also a place from where many social reform
movements originated in the country. How can he forget to include a
scheduled caste member in the committee," she said.

Maya said that she cannot buy the argument that civil society members
led by Hazare and the UPA government could not find any suitable
scheduled cast person who could be part of the joint committee for
drafting the Jan Lokpal Bill.

She said that now the Central government should rectify the mistake
committed by the civil society members by including a non-political
dalit member. For this, she added, the drafting committee should be
reconstituted at the earliest.

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