Saturday, January 16, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Cong leaders disown controversial 'caste list'

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Cong-leaders-disown-controversial-caste-list/articleshow/5450421.cms

Cong leaders disown controversial 'caste list'
Dipak Mishra, TNN, 16 January 2010, 12:50am IST

Prevention of Atrocities Act, state Congress chief Anil Kumar Sharma
and AICC Bihar in-charge Jagdish Tytler are desperately trying to
wriggle out of the soup they find themselves after distribution of the
list of BPCC office-bearers with their castes affixed against their
names. They included Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.

Both Sharma and Tytler are now disowning the list distributed to the
media. Sharma claimed that the list shown by the media was 'fudged'
and not the actual list released to the media. Tytler lost his cool at
the media declaring that the 'caste list' shown by the media was
'leaked out' and had not been released officially. "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," Tytler told reporters here when asked about the leakage
of the controversial list.

Tytler for the first time after he assumed charge of Bihar Congress
also attacked the media saying, "It is the media which has damaged me.
Just because you have power it does not mean you have to misuse it. If
you are serious why don't you find out who stole the list... who took
that list away, which was for our internal consumption." He insisted
that the 'official' list released by the Congress does not carry the
name of Meira Kumar as an office-bearer.

Apparently, the two have been feeling the heat of the faux pas of
releasing the 'caste list by mistake.' With Rahul Gandhi scheduled to
visit Bihar to give fillip to his plan of enrolling youths in the
Youth Congress, this is the controversy the AICC did not want at all.
The AICC is reportedly seeking legal advice on the case filed by a
little known political activist, Vidhan Chandra Rana, under the SC/ST
Prevention of Atrocities Act. The best way out, in the opinion of a
senior party leader, is to disown the controversial 'caste list'.

Dissident Congress leaders, who have been gunning for the head of
Sharma, have got a god sent opportunity to get after Sharma and also
Tytler. They are camping in Delhi, meeting top party leaders and
pointing out towards the embarrassment caused to the party. The
political adversaries have not lagged behind. CM Nitish Kumar was
quick to dub the Congress as a party mired in caste politics and
trying to rake up caste tension as it was dying in Bihar. The 'caste
list' is turning out to be a nightmare for the Congress.

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