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Cabinet nod for job promotion quotas; BJP, SP,
BSP spar
Tuesday September 04, 2012 04:46:31 PM,
IANS
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Mayawati demands constitution amendment for SC/ST quota
Bahujan
Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati Monday demanded in the Rajya
Sabha that the government bring a constitutional amendment bill
during the current parliament session to ensure that Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Uttar Pradesh
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New Delhi:
The cabinet Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment bill to
provide reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in
government job promotions. It immediately created a political
divide with the BJP providing conditional support, the Bahujan
Samaj Party welcoming the move and the Samajwadi Party opposing
it.
The decision on reservations had been taken at an all party
meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Aug 21.
The BSP had raised the issue in parliament after the Supreme Court
in April overruled the Uttar Pradesh government's decision to
provide reservations in government job promotions. The BSP, which
had provided the reservation when it was in the government, then
demanded a constitutional amendment to provide for such quotas.
The proposed bill seeks to amend at least four articles of the
constitution to enable the government to provide quota in
promotions for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
The bill is likely to be tabled in parliament on Wednesday or
Thursday. Parliament's monsoon session concludes Friday.
The BSP expectedly welcomed the measure and appealed to the BJP,
which has stalled parliament for 10 days over the allocation of
coal blocks, to let the house function so that the bill could be
passed.
"I will appeal to the NDA, specially BJP...I would request them to
pass this bill as it has already been discussed in the all-party
meeting, and needs no more debate in parliament," Mayawati told
reporters in parliament.
"I would urge them, whether it takes half-an-hour, one hour or
one-and-a-half-hours, to get it passed in this session," she said.
"We have fought hard for this bill. It will allow Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes to stand on their feet," Mayawati said,
adding that if a similar promotion quota is also granted to the
other backward classes, her party would support it.
The Bharatiya Janata Party offered conditional support.
"We are supporting the bill. But some members have some
reservations. We will discuss it and suggest some amendments," BJP
leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told IANS.
The Samajwadi Party, however, said it would not allow the bill to
be passed. It likened its fate to that of the women's reservation
bill that has been pending in the Lok Sabha since March 2010 after
being passed by the Rajya Sabha.
"We are against the bill. It is unconstitutional," Samajwadi Party
leader Ram Gopal Yadav said, adding: "The Supreme Court has
quashed it. Still the government wants to bring the bill because
it is politically motivated."
"Just as we did not allow the women's reservation bill to be
passed, we will not allow this bill either," he told IANS.
The government said it was committed to getting the bill passed.
"It was a decision taken in an all-party meeting. It is everyone's
view," Law Minister Salman Khurshid said.
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