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| Gujjars demand political reservation | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | July 28
Accusing the previous Congress-PDP government of ignoring the Gujjar community in Jammu and Kashmir, senior National Conference leader Mian Altaf Ahmed on Monday appealed to Governor N N Vohra to intervene and provide Gujjars their right of political reservation available to the Scheduled Tribe category.
"I appeal to Governor N N Vohra to intervene and provide us our right of political reservation available under the ST status," Ahmed said addressing a convention of Gujjars held at Keller in Ganderbal district, 20 kms from Srinagar.
Ahmed, a former minister and veteran Gujjar leader asked his community to vote against "evil forces accountable for their backwardness by one way or the other".
Gujjars, a major ST group of the state constituting one fourth of the 11 million population, are a most neglected lot and people who were at the helm of the affairs during last five-and-half years are directly responsible for their miseries, he said.
Ahmed appealed to them to unite against anti-tribal forces and give a befitting reply to those "who are exploiting them since Independence".
The NC leader accused Congress and PDP of adopting a "deliberate attitude to sabotage the Constitutional safeguards available to the tribes", especially the Gujjars of the state, and expressed dismay over breach of trust committed by former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.
He said Azad had given his word to ST and SC communities to adopt a bill to amend government rules, "which still remains an unfulfilled dream". |
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