| Hakla demands reservation of Assembly, LS segments for Gujjars-Bakarwals | | | Early Times Report
POONCH, Oct 4: A prominent Gujjar leader Shamsher Hakla Poonchi today appealed to the government for reservation of Assembly as well as Lok Sabha (LS) segments in the state for Gujjar and Bakarwal communities.
Hakla, in a statement here today, said the political reservation was compulsory for the Gujjars and Bakarwals, who have already been given ST status by Government of India in the year 1991.
Hakla said the Gujjar-Bakarwal community was granted scheduled tribe status by the government of India 27 years ago but the state government had failed to grant them political reservation. He said that recognizing the backwardness of Gujjars and Bakarwals of J&K, Government of India granted Scheduled Tribe status to them under Ordinance No 3 of 1991 under Article 342 of Constitution of India on April 19, 1991.
"So far as their participation in the state politics and administrative setup is concerned under ST status norms, there should have been reservation of Assembly and the Lok Sabha constituencies for Gujjars and Bakarwals in the state but it did not", he said adding that the state government has done a great injustice to Gujjar-Bakarwal community. |
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