Sonia says knows nothing about list with castes
Express news service Posted online: Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 at 0149 hrs
New Delhi : Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday dissociated
herself from the controversial list of Pradesh Congress Committee
(PCC)'s office-bearers that specified their caste names, which is
banned under the SC/ST Act. "I do not know," Gandhi told reporters
about the PCC list at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
As reported by The Indian Express on Tuesday, the 562-member PCC list,
signed by the AICC in charge of Bihar, Jagdish Tytler, included Lok
Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar as Permanent Invitee. The list specified the
caste names of office-bearers, including that of Kumar. Asked about
it, Kumar said, "I belong to a political party. As a Speaker, I
believe in strict neutrality of the chair."
The Congress, in the mean time, swung into damage control exercise on
Tuesday, even as the Bihar Dalit Morcha burnt Tytler's effigies.
Senior Congress leaders in Delhi maintained that the list with caste
names was an "internal document" and the SC/ST Act applied only if
they were used publicly.
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