PANAJI
Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat on Tuesday alleged that the State Election Commission’s admission before the High Court that the reservations notified for women candidates for municipality election is not as per the mandate of the Constitution is reflective of the BJP’s anti-women and anti-OBC agenda.
“It has come to light that not only women are deprived of the rightful reservation in Municipal wards, but Other Backward Class (OBC) has also met a similar fate. The ruling BJP government wants to have control on municipalities by winning majority seats with electoral fraud,” stated Kamat.
He insisted that women should get 33.3 per cent reservation in the Municipal Councils and pointed out that it is mandatory to keep 27 per cent reservation for the OBCs.
“It is very much evident that the delimitation and reservation process is carried out under the directions of political bosses from the ruling BJP to benefit their selected candidates. This is an act of murdering democracy,” Kamat lamented.
