Bihar Congress flouts SC/ST Act, classifies members as per caste
Javed Ansari / DNAWednesday, January 13, 2010 0:00 IST
New Delhi: Barely a few months after the Congress working committee
(CWC) decided at a meeting to advise leaders not to use prefixes to
names that would suggest caste, the Bihar unit of the party has
flouted the norm.
A list released by the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) not
only mentions the religions and communities its 64 members belong to,
but also contains details such as their castes, including SC/ST,
background and the names of districts they come from.
Apart from flouting the party norm, the list is in contravention of
the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar
has been mentioned as belonging to the Dalit community.
It's another matter that since she is in a constitutional position,
she cannot hold a party post.
Senior party leaders sought to explain thelist on Tuesday. They said
names of communities had been mentioned to ensure all castes in the
state are adequately represented on BPCC.
"The idea was to ensure proper representation to all sections, since
in the past, a majority of the posts have been cornered by a few
castes," Jagdish Tytler, the AICC in-charge of Bihar, said.
In some cases, even sub-castes of members have been mentioned.
Scheduled caste members have been classified as Chamar, Dushad, Pasi,
Dhobi, etc, while details such as Koeri, Kurmi, Yadav and Vaish/Baniya
have been provided about members from the OBC community.
Members belonging to the upper caste have been classified as Kanyakubj
Brahman, Bengali Brahman, Maithili Brahman, Bhumihar and Rajput. Only
caste affiliations of Muslims have not been mentioned.
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