Caste list: Tytler, Sharma may escape Cong wrath
Express news service Posted online: Friday , Jan 15, 2010 at 0255 hrs
NEW DELHI/PATNA : AICC Bihar in-charge Jagdish Tytler and state PCC
chief Anil Sharma are likely to survive the storm over the release of
the controversial list of the party's state executive that contained
the caste name of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and other
office-bearers, even as they face legal troubles after the
registration of an FIR against them in Patna by a Dalit forum.
Bihar Dalit Kranti Morcha, a voluntary group, on Thursday lodged a
complaint with the Punaichak-based Harijan Thana under provisions of
the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The complainant, front chairman Vidan Chandra Rana told The Indian
Express: "Congress leaders Tytler and Sharma have hurt sentiments of
Dalits and insulted them by naming their castes in BPCC list, released
here on 6 January." The police have ordered an inquiry.
Though embarrassed, the Congress leadership is not inclined to take
any action against Tytler and Sharma, it was reliably learnt. AICC
general secretary (organisation) Janardan Dwivedi is holding an
internal inquiry into the incident. Party sources said that it was a
"mistake" to release the list with caste names, which was actually "an
internal exercise", but sacking Tytler and Sharma in an election year
was not considered practical.
Tytler, meanwhile, sought to wriggle out of the controversy claiming
that the internal document was "stolen" and leaked to the media. "You
find out who brought the list. It is an internal document. So many
things are mentioned in internal papers. But what is important is what
comes out officially," he said in Delhi.
Sharma termed it a "conspiracy" of political rivals.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar attacked the Congress, saying, "Congress
has always been a casteist party and its list reflected it amply. The
party leaves no chances to criticise us when we talk of Dalit welfare,
but the party leaders are groping for an explanation now."
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