Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 3: General Category People’s Forum, Jammu (GCPF-J) has demanded the Government to abolish all those laws which promotes discrimination, ill-will and hatred in the society.
Yash Paul Sanson, president GCPF-J said that the Forum has always raised its voice against social evils and demanded welfare schemes to ameliorate the socio-economic status of economically backward families of all castes and religions. He was addressing a meeting of the Forum held under the chairmanship of Raj Kumar Banathia (chairman).
Sanson said the Forum condemns abuse and misuse of constitutional guarantees which had given birth of inequality, injustice and discrimination. Terming the retiring of Government servants after the age of 48 or 22 years of services a right step in the interest of the people, he stressed upon the Government not to compromise efficiency and talent in the appointments.
Som Nath Sharma, general secretary of the Forum, appealed the Modi Government to initiate legal and constitutional steps for ensuring ‘Equal Rights and Equal Laws’ for all, besides common civil code. He alleged that the elected Government has not will-power to settle various problems and issues raising out of existing reservation policy.
“Till date, Government has neither data of people who availed the benefits of reservation nor it abolished reservation. Since 1950, Governments under political pressure and vote bank politics effected amendments without reviewing reservation policy, causing unrest among un-reserved categories,” Sharma added.
V K Sharma, Dr Bansi Lal, Deepak Khajuria, Gopal Dass Verma, Bhushan Pargal and Jagdish Dogra expressed concern over unprecedented price rise, which they said, has caused a lot of heartache for people. They expressed dismay over forced extortion of taxes and service charges, and demanded poverty alleviation schemes for the welfare of the poor families.
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