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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Re: [ZESTCaste] Quota can’t uplift the minority, says Buddha

What a rascal this criminal, Baddhadev is! I would love to see somebody
giving him a fitting reply.
Chittibabu

2009/12/22 Siddhartha Kumar <mailsiddhartha.k@gmail.com>

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> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Quota-can-t-uplift-the-minority--says-Buddha/557541/
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> Quota can't uplift the minority, says Buddha
> Express News Service Posted online: Tuesday , Dec 22, 2009 at 0253 hrs
> Kolkata :

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[ZESTCaste] SC/ST Aikyavedi flays Misra panel proposal

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By Express News Service
22 Dec 2009 07:12:31 AM IST

SC/ST Aikyavedi flays Misra panel proposal

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Aikyavedi
has flayed Ranganath Misra Commission report which recommended the
inclusion of Christians and Muslims in the reservation list of
Scheduled Castes/Tribes.
Addressing a news conference here, Aikyavedi chairman Aithiyur
Surendran said that they will organise strong protests against the
move to sabotage the special order issued by the President in 1950
which barred the inclusion of other religious groups in the
reservation list of Scheduled Castes. He said that Aikyavedi would not
support political parties which support the Ranganath Misra Commission
report in Parliament.
The Aikyavedi demanded a census to determine the number of Scheduled
Castes who adopted Christianity. They should be given special
reservation. The Aikyavedi also demanded that those who converted to
Islam should be included in the 27 percent reservation earmarked for
the OBCs.
The Aikyavedi demanded that the UPA Government is working to
propagate votebank politics. In 2007, five leaders of the Aikyavedi
had threatened to commit suicide in front of the Parliament when the
report was about to be discussed in the Administrative Reforms
Committee.
General Secretary D S Raj, vice-presidents Puravoor Raghhunathan,
Vellar Surendran, Kollam Viswabhran, Saravan Chandra, Nettayam
Divakaran and Ravi Vaidyar also attended the press meet.

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[ZESTCaste] Two Sikh youths booked for molesting dalit

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Two Sikh youths booked for molesting dalit

STAFF WRITER 17:46 HRS IST
Moga (Punjab), Dec 22 (PTI) Two Sikh youths have been booked for
allegedly molesting a dalit woman in the district, police said today.

Police registered a case against the accused, both hailing from Rania
village, after the middle aged dalit woman charged the duo of
molesting her.

One of the accused, Jagga Singh, has been arrested while the other,
Kewal Singh, managed to escape after police raided their houses in the
district today.

According to the FIR, the victim, from nearby Ghalkalan village, said
that she was molested by the two youths when she along with a relative
girl was going to Rania village from Badhni Kalan yesterday.

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[ZESTCaste] 'Implementing Rangnath report matter of great sensitivity'

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'Implementing Rangnath report matter of great sensitivity'

Agencies Posted online: Tuesday , Dec 22, 2009 at 1558 hrs
New Delhi : Government on Tuesday indicated it is in no haste to
implement the Rangnath Mishra Commission report, which recommended
reservation for Muslims and other minorities besides SC status to
Muslim and Christian Dalits, saying it is a matter of "great
sensitivity".
"This is a matter of great seriousness but also of great sensitivity.
We have to consult widely and this is what we are going to do...the
government will take a collective view on the issue," Minority Affairs
Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters here when asked if and when
the government intends to implement the report.

Asked how serious was the government on the issue, the minister
said,"Government is always serious about everything but the point is
that every recommendation cannot be accepted and is not accepted".

"Whatever is found sensible, politically, practically and
constitutionally viable and acceptable to people is accepted," he
added.

On the government's plan to set up an Equal Opportunity Commission,
which will prescribe diversity index for industries and government
sector for affirmative action, the minister said, "work on it is
taking place in an accelerated pace. The Prime Minister has
constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) which will start working soon.
After this, it will come before the Cabinet and then finally, it will
be tabled before Parliament".

"We want the coordination work (among various political parties)
needed for passing the Bill to be completed before it is brought
before the cabinet and Parliament," he said.

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Dinakaran: BJP says judicial misconduct is caste-neutral

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Dinakaran: BJP says judicial misconduct is caste-neutral
Agencies Posted: Dec 22, 2009 at 1825 hrs
New Delhi BJP on Tuesday refuted BSP's accusation that the impeachment
demand against Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran was victimisation
of a Dalit, saying judicial misconduct was a "caste-neutral issue".
"Judicial misconduct is a caste-neutral issue. It always relates to
persons and not their background," Leader of Opposition in Rajya
Sabha, Arun Jaitley said.
He gave the examples of previous impeachment cases involving Justice
Ramaswamy of the Supreme Court and Justice Soumitra Sen of Calcutta
High Court, saying they were from different castes.
75 Rajya Sabha MPs have signed on a petition submitted to
Vice-President Hamid Ansari demanding an impeachment motion against
Dinakaran. MPs from BJP, Left Parties, Samajwadi Party and AIADMK had
signed on the petition. Congress and BSP did not give their assent.
BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati wrote a letter
to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the demand for impeachment
and argued that Dinakaran, a Dalit, was being victimised due to his
caste.
Signatures of 50 Rajya Sabha MPs or 100 Lok Sabha MPs are required to
bring about such a motion.
Dismissing the caste argument, Jaitley said, "I don't think caste can
be pleaded as a defence or a diversion..

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Re: [ZESTCaste] Quota can’t uplift the minority, says Buddha

[ZESTCaste] SC/ST Aikyavedi flays Misra panel proposal

[ZESTCaste] Two Sikh youths booked for molesting dalit

[ZESTCaste] 'Implementing Rangnath report matter of great sensitivity'

Dinakaran: BJP says judicial misconduct is caste-neutral

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