SC/ST federation demands withdrawal of Uma Shankar's suspension
Special Correspondent
The members of the Central and State governments SC/ST Employees
Federation have demanded the Tamil Nadu government to immediately
withdraw the suspension order issued against IAS officer Uma Shankar.
At an emergency meeting convened here on Sunday, representatives from
various districts participated.
S. Karuppiah, state organiser, presided over the meeting.
The members urged the government to stop 'humiliating' the downtrodden
section under some pretext or the other, when they worked hard and
proved their mettle.
An official like Mr. Uma Shankar had been primarily responsible for
the cremation shed scam expose. He was then lauded by many political
parties, elected representatives and other right thinking citizens.
When such had been the record held by the IAS officer in his public
life, pointing out baseless allegations suddenly showed only the
double standards of the State government, they alleged.
With Assembly elections round the corner in Tamil Nadu, the speakers
maintained that they would pledge their support only to those
political parties which had promised to look into their grievances and
redress them.
The meeting resolved to observe a token fast on August 7 at
Virudhunagar district and also stage demonstration at taluk level in
Tirunelveli district. As the next course of action, all the members
including public and elected representatives from the Dalit community
would stage a massive demonstration in Chennai by August end.
Among other demands, they urged the governments to fill in vacancies
and also lift anomalies in extending assistance to Dalit students.
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