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Bhiduri's dharna at Statue Circle from today
TNN, Dec 27, 2010, 04.25am IST
JAIPUR: President of the All-India Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti
Ramvir Singh Bhiduri will organise an indefinite dharna at Statue
Circle from Monday. Bhiduri's dharna is in support of the charter of
demands of the Gujjar community, primarily for a 5 % reservation for
it in the state.
Bhiduri said chief minister Ashok Gehlot and home minister Shanti
Dhariwal had accepted the Bill passed by the former BJP government was
full of loopholes and unconstitutional.
"In the wake of such open admissions, the government should convene a
special session of the assembly and pass a fresh bill covering all
these loopholes. It should be a constitutionaly valid bill making
provisions for a 5 %reservation for the community," he said.
He said the Jats, who make up 9% of the state's population, were
includedg in the OBC reservation quota of 21% without enhancing the
total percentage during the BJP regime. Therefore, the Gujjars should
now be given a 5% quota in the OBC and the total percentage of
reservation should be made to 26%.
Further he wanted that the OBC to be divided into two categories of
backward and most backward and the Gujjars, Gadia Lohars, Banjaras and
Rebari be included in the most backward community.
In a new demand, Bhiduri wanted the government to issue a white paper
stating that in the past five years how much recruitment has been done
under the OBC quota and what percentage of government jobs had been
given to which caste. He also wanted to know what percentage of jobs
had been given to Gujjars and the other three communities.
He wanted that the government should immediately release all Gujjar
activists arrested during the past agitation as a goodwill gesture. He
demanded that the Rs 25 crore fund kept aside for the welfare of
students of Gujjars, Gadia Lohars, Banjara and Rebari community should
be enhanced to Rs 50 crore and the clause of producing an income
certificatebe removed as well as the clause stating no government
employee's ward can avail the benefit.
He also wanted the Rs 25 crore fund set aside for the Dev Narayan
Board to be increased to Rs 500 crore and placed under the chief
minister.
"The money should be used for development of Gujjar villages under
chief minister' monitoring," Bhiduri said.
Lashing out at the BJP, Bhiduri said first the party should apologise
to Gujjars for framing such an unconstitutional bill and secondly for
being responsible of killing 70 people in the agitation so far.
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