Selja takes on RSS, BJP over reservation isuse
- July 05, 2020
- Updated: 12:26 am
DW BUREAU / chandigarh
Haryana unit Congress president Kumari Selja on Saturday claimed that the BJP government and the RSS have been conspiring to abolish SC, ST and OBC reservations in the country. It is solely for this reason that the concept of reservations and its constitutionality are being constantly attacked. There have been many such occasions in the past years, in which the anti-reservation mindset of BJP and RSS has been fully exposed, said she.
Kumari Selja said that it was a part of conspiracy and a well laid out plan to abolish reservation system that in the year 2015, RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat said that reservation system should be reviewed. Besides, the Ravidas temple in Delhi was demolished.
"BJP MP Subramanian Swamy said that "Our government will bring the reservation system to a level where it will be as good as nothing." This statement by Subramanian Swamy had exposed the BJP government's plan to abolish reservation system in other ways that is indirectly since they have seen that by using direct measures has always evoked strong opposition from the distressed, deprived and needy sections of the society," she said.The result of this was that the central government introduced a new system of bringing their cronies and those who believe in RSS ideology, in the bureaucracy from outside areas in which no examination is being conducted and no reservation will be applicable in their appointments. Almost 50 per cent of the officers in UPSC civil service examination are selected from the SC-ST-OBC categories. It is clear that such lateral entry was Infact as measure to reduce officers belonging to such categories at senior positions.
In the year 2017, the government stated that 747 officers were in the rank of Director or above. Out of which only 8 per cent belonged to SC category and 3 per cent to ST category. Now the lateral entry will further reduce this number. This lateral entry was a living example of this government's conspiracy to abolish reservation system.
Also, the Supreme Court had said in February that state governments were not bound to give reservation in promotions. The court gave such a decision based on the wrong plea by the BJP's Uttarakhand government.
The OBC students will not be able to get the advantage of reservation in admission to Medical institutions through NEET. Under the All India quota, medical educational institutions of the Central Government and States/UTs were reserved for students belonging to Dalit, Tribal and economically weaker sections, but practically, the reservation for OBC students under All India quota was only limited to the Central institutions. Due to this, the students of OBC category were suffering massive loss . According to data compiled by the All India Federation of Other Backward Classes, due to non-implementation of OBC Reservation in the institutions of States/UTs, more than 11,000 seats in the All India Quota of OBC category were lost by such applicants till 2017.
(editor@dailyworld.in)