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SC order against quotas in promotions rocks
parliament
Thursday August 09, 2012 04:50:25 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The issue of
reservation in promotions in government jobs in Uttar Pradesh saw
an uproar in both houses of parliament Thursday with the Rajya
Sabha being adjourned for nearly an hour and the Lok Sabha
witnessing disruptions.
The Supreme Court order in April, overruling the Uttar Pradesh
government's decision to provide reservations in government job
promotions to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, led to MPs
vociferously voicing their opinion in both houses.
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned after MPs of the Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP), which was then in government in Uttar Pradesh, raised the
issue. The upper house lost the important question hour for the
second day of the monsoon session over the issue after the chair
adjourned the house soon after the day's proceedings began.
The BSP had raised the Supreme Court order issue in the budget
session too, demanding a constitutional amendment to provide for
such quotas.
On Thursday, BSP leader Mayawati raised the issue in the Rajya
Sabha as soon as it met for the day, blaming the government for
not taking action as promised.
Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office V. Narayanasamy
promised that a meeting would be called in the current session,
but BSP members refused to be pacified and trooped towards
chairman Hamid Ansari's podium.
Ansari then adjourned the house till noon.
In the Lok Sabha, members from the BSP, Samajwadi Party (SP) and
Congress raised the issue soon after the house met and did not let
question hour be taken up.
Members wanted Speaker Meira Kumar to allow an impromptu
discussion.
With the speaker relenting to their demand, the matter was raised
by SP's Shailendra Kumar, who appealed to the government to uphold
the interests of the downtrodden and to come up with a
constitutional amendment to provide for such reservations.
He was supported by Congress' P.L. Punia.
Responding to the members' concern, Parliamentary Affairs Minister
Pawan Kumar Bansal admitted that a meeting the government was to
have on the matter could not take place over the last one-and-half
months due to various reasons.
But he assured that the government would respond appropriately to
the issue soon.
"The matter is important and the government is pro-active in
according the rightful place for Dalits in the country. The
government's response to the Supreme Court order must be
considered," he added.
Following the assurance, members let the question hour proceed
without disruptions.
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