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| Paharis don’t deserve ST status: Gujjars | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 8: Anwar Choudhary, Convener, All J&K Gujjar Bakerwal Organizations United Front Jammu said that sinister moves are afoot to create a counterpoise to the just hopes and aspirations of the Gujjars and Bakerwals and weaken the nationalistic forces in Jammu & Kashmir. Addressing a press conference Choudhary said that recent developments and reports in a section of media all indicate that the non-existent Paharis and their self-styled leader having connections at right places in the JK establishment have joined hands to convince the authorities in J&K and New Delhi to their spurious and unjustifiable claim to Scheduled Tribe (ST) status so that they could share the benefits the tribals including Gujjars, Bakkerwals, Gadis and Sippis, have been getting since April 1991. “The tribals got ST status after decades of a relentless struggle and got 10% reservations in job sector, professional and technical institutions and other house of learning. That the non-existent Paharis were recently granted four percent reservation in job sector and their institutions establish beyond any shadow of doubt that the conspirators are all out to jeopardize the legitimate rights and interests of the tribals and render them unreal and ineffective socially, educationally, economically and politically and create pre 1991 situation and all this in utterly unacceptable to us,” said Choudhary. Making the point that the non-existent Paharis don’t deserve ST status he said that the various commissions and committees not even once referred to the non-existent Paharia as a tribal group.
Similarly , the census reports of 1941,1961,1971,1981 to mention only a few also didn’t refer to the so called Paharis as a distinct tribal group he said adding that the BJP led NDA too in 2002 rejected outright the unjustifiable claim of the so called paharis to ST status saying the laid down ruled didn’t allow any such status to them. |
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