Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 31: General Category People’s Forum (GCPF) Jammu has demanded total abolition of reservations.
Discussing the issue in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Raj Kumar Banathia, chairman of the Forum, the office bearers of GCPF said that caste and class based reservations and other special privileges and concessions is an evil and it need to be abolished completely.
Addressing the meeting, Yash Paul Sanson, president of the Forum condemned the policy of Government to continue with the caste and class based discrimination through reservation and to ignore the economically and educationally backward families of so called upper castes for its vested interest and political gains.
He said that it is all invidious and immoral to ignore genuine, deserving and needy families on the basis of their caste and religion. The politics of caste, class and religion and sectarianism in India has kept the country away from what it deserves. He further added that continuation of reservation on the basis of caste, class or religion is clear cut violation of Human Rights and principle of equality and justice.
Sanson demanded that all kinds of reservation be ended and provisions for Special Support Measures be made for economically and educationally backward and deprived families of all castes, classes and religions as no caste or class is poor, backward completely. There are elites in every caste and class and they do not deserve any Government support. He said if Government under political pressure of vote bank fails to take legal and constitutional steps to safeguard the fundamental rights of people, they could adopt possible democratic modes to teach Government a lesson.
Som Nath Sharma, general secretary of the Forum demanded ‘Equal Rights and Equal Laws’ for all. He also sought immediate abolition of reservation as it created embitterment and unrest among youth as they never got what was their legitimate due on the socio-economic and political processes due to caste & class based discriminatory reservations.
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