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UPA's concern for upper castes
Published on Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 23:20, Updated on Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:25 in section
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New Delhi: Two months before Uttar Pradesh goes to polls, the Government is trying out yet another caste experiment after sops for OBCs, SCs and STs.
The Centre is now turning its focus onto the poor among the Brahmins and Thakurs.
It's being tipped to be the balancing act of the UPA Government specially after pushing the OBC and the Dalit agenda to the hilt.
A commission to recommend affirmative action for the poor among the upper caste is being revitalised and Major General S R Sinho, who has been heading the Commission for Economically Poorer Sections, is being given a fresh lease of life by an apologetic government - an extension for one year.
Sinho said, “Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister are very keen that this commission must do their job. "
While the Government tried to wriggle out of the quota row, the commission was quietly created last year in July with a tenure of six months which means it should have given its report by Wednesday.
But only as late as last month was it provided accommodation to carry out its work. Now a proposal is going to the Union Cabinet to give the commission a fresh lease of life.
Affirmative action for the poor among the upper castes was first demanded during the Rajasthan Assembly elections of 2003. The Jats in Rajasthan had just been included in the OBC list. The spade work for the commission was done by the NDA but then there was a change of Government at the Centre.
This commission has been asked to look in the legal aspects of affirmative action for the poor among the upper caste.
It will also recommend whether benefits of reservations be extended to these sections.
The commission will also consult state governments on the issue and will give its final report in the extended timeframe.
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If such politicians will stay in power, it is not very far off, when India will be managed only by
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The UPA is atleat trying to take all sections of society together and then also you hypocrites blame them.
Dont fall
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UPA (Congress) is years back to get any support from upper caste. All these years the upper castes were beaten
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The caste (OBC/SC/ST) basis reservation system implemented by the former Congress government for four decades & now Congress-led UPA government
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Vote bank politics at its worst.Hypocrisy at its worst.
Why hv quota at all for any strata of society.Why not help
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