MARGAO
The Mission for Political Reservations for the ST community has upped the ante ahead of the ensuing Goa Assembly session scheduled on March 27.
A delegation of the organisation called on Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai to raise the issue in the ensuing session of the Goa Legislative Assembly and help fulfil the long pending demands of the ST community for political reservations.
The Goa Forward Chief told the media after the delegation called on him at his residence on Saturday that he had raised the issue at the last Assembly session and would raise it again in the ensuing session. “When the Constitution of India provides for political reservations and when the tribal community in other states is enjoying the political reservation, it is absurd that the ST community in Goa is denied of the political reservations,” he said.
Sardesai pointed out that the BJP boast of making a tribal leader the President of India, but here is a case where the ruling party is meting out injustice to the community. “I do not know why there is a delay in notifying the reservations for the ST community in Goa, and whether anyone is fearing the reservations,” he said.
Slamming the government for linking the political reservations to readjustment of constituencies, Sardesai said justice delayed is justice denied and the government cannot make the tribal community wait for the reservations, more so when the tribal community had supported the ruling party.
The ST delegation pointed out that they have realised that the issue of political reservation could not be taken to a logical conclusion in Delhi just because a proposal to this effect was not sent to the Centre by the Goa Government. “Political reservations is being enjoyed by the ST community in many states, but has been denied to the community in Goa. A panel had even recommended reservation of four seats to the ST community as per the 2011 census, but the reservation is yet to become a reality,” they said.
Saying the report on the political reservations for the ST community is lying on the table of the Chief Minister, the delegation has appealed to the Members of Legislative Assembly to take up the issue in the ensuing session and help mete out justice for the tribal community.
A delegation of the organisation called on Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai to raise the issue in the ensuing session of the Goa Legislative Assembly and help fulfil the long pending demands of the ST community for political reservations.
The Goa Forward Chief told the media after the delegation called on him at his residence on Saturday that he had raised the issue at the last Assembly session and would raise it again in the ensuing session. “When the Constitution of India provides for political reservations and when the tribal community in other states is enjoying the political reservation, it is absurd that the ST community in Goa is denied of the political reservations,” he said.
Sardesai pointed out that the BJP boast of making a tribal leader the President of India, but here is a case where the ruling party is meting out injustice to the community. “I do not know why there is a delay in notifying the reservations for the ST community in Goa, and whether anyone is fearing the reservations,” he said.
Slamming the government for linking the political reservations to readjustment of constituencies, Sardesai said justice delayed is justice denied and the government cannot make the tribal community wait for the reservations, more so when the tribal community had supported the ruling party.
The ST delegation pointed out that they have realised that the issue of political reservation could not be taken to a logical conclusion in Delhi just because a proposal to this effect was not sent to the Centre by the Goa Government. “Political reservations is being enjoyed by the ST community in many states, but has been denied to the community in Goa. A panel had even recommended reservation of four seats to the ST community as per the 2011 census, but the reservation is yet to become a reality,” they said.
Saying the report on the political reservations for the ST community is lying on the table of the Chief Minister, the delegation has appealed to the Members of Legislative Assembly to take up the issue in the ensuing session and help mete out justice for the tribal community.
