Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 6: The Government should either implement the Mandal Commission recommendations in toto or quit, warned the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leaders while addressing a one day conference of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) here today.
The conference was presided over by R L Chargotra vice president, BSP. Narinder Kashyap MP and Parkash Bharti state co-ordinator BSP were the chief guests while Tulsi Das Langeh State president BSP was the guest of honour.
The function was convened by Ayodhya Kumar Manwa general secretary, BSP, Dr Harjeet Singh and Mohinder Kashyap State secretaries of the party.
The speakers said that BSP started movement right from tehsil to national level in the year 1983 –84 for implementation of Mandal Commission recommendations. After the inception of BSP in 1984 under the leadership of Kanshi Ram it warned the State Government and Centre either to implement the Mandal Commission report or quit and the same slogan is reiterated by the Party this time also as the successive Governments in the State played with the cause of OBCs always by not giving them due share in the reservations, they added.
The BSP leaders said the struggle, which was started by the Party in 1984 is still on and in the year 1985 a Jail Baro Andolan for the implementation of the recommendations was launched in front of Parliament.
They said that the Party intensified its moment to such an extent that in 1990 the then Prime Minister, V P Singh was forced to implement the recommendations. Though the Government decision was stayed by court but in 1992 the Supreme Court gave its verdict to implement the reservations for OBCs but J&K Government has made a joke with OBCs who constitute 45 percent of the total population of the State by denying them their due right.
These people are provided only two percent reservations instead of 45 percent, which is a cruel joke with them, they said adding the NC Government denied the implementation of the report even on the floor of the House when the Party MLAs raised question in State Assembly in this regard.
The BSP leaders warned that the Party will be left with no alternative but to come on streets for the implementation of the report, if it is further delayed.
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