New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Friday lambasted the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government over the SC/ST Quota in Promotion Bill but also said that her party would continue to support the Central Government. Speaking to IBN7 Managing Editor Ashutosh, Mayawati said that the UPA was not interested in passing the Bill and working for the benefit of the Dalit community.
Babasaheb Bimrao Ambedkar had demanded reservation for Dalits due to the low social status of the community, Mayawati said. The BSP leader and Rajya Sabha MP said that even as the situation of the other backward castes had been improving in recent years, SCs and STs had not benefited and so reservation was the only solution.
Mayawati accused the Centre of pushing for reservation in promotion because of its anti-Dalit stand. The BSP chief said that her party forced the UPA to get the Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha. But the Centre took advantage of this move and did not get the Bill passed in the Lok Sabha. She pointed out that the incidents of December 19 and 20 in the Lok Sabha showed that the UPA was not in the favour of the Bill.
When asked about her party's support to the Central Government, Mayawati said that her party is against communal forces and has supported the UPA on many issues. She said that the government had assured her party about the reservation in promotion bill and so she had supported
07:30 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: After much debate and opposition from the Samajwadi Party, the quota bill on promotions in government services was passed in the Rajya Sabha. The bill was passed almost unanimous with 206 voting for and only 10 against it, despite the Samajwadi Party disrupting both houses to protest the bill. Taking credit for the quota bill, Mayawati said, "The Bahujan Samajwadi Party has struggled a lot for the Quota...
06:49 AM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: The bill for providing quota to members of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in promotion in government jobs was on Monday passed in the Rajya Sabha by an overwhelming majority. As many as 184 votes were cast in favour of the bill while there were eight votes against it. Following the passage in the Upper House of Parliament, the promotion quota bill will now be sent...
07:19 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: While voting is scheduled in the Rajya Sabha on the SC/ ST reservation in promotion bill on Monday, the opponents of the bill had locked government offices in Lucknow even as those supporting the reservation are sitting on protest outside the offices in Uttar Pradesh's capital. The Samajwadi Party disrupted the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, arguing that if reservation for Dalits in promotion could...
02:50 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday accused the government of not being serious about the quota promotion bill, warning it of dire circumstances, even as she lashed out at Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari for repeated adjournments of the House and his failure to ensure its smooth functioning. However, the comments of the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister against the Rajya Sabha Chairman was expunged later...
05:22 PM, Dec 12, 2012
