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| Cong mulls to field Dalit candidate on one Lok Sabha seat of Jammu region | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 11: After raking up the issue of caste census at the national level, the Congress high command is seriously thinking of giving mandates to maximum Dalit and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) candidates in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Highly placed sources said that the central leadership of Congress is thinking of giving a mandate to the Dalit candidate from one of the two Lok Sabha seats of Jammu province.
“To snatch Lok Sabha seats from Jammu province Congress leadership will field at-least a Dalit on one of the two Lok Sabha seats of this region which is turned into a stronghold of BJP after 2014”, sources said and added that party high-command has already local unit to suggest names of Dalits candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Dalits constitute 7.6 percent of the population of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Dalits have a significant presence in Hindu-dominated districts of Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Udhampur, and Reasi.
Their number is considerable in other parts, including the erstwhile Doda district and the mountainous belt of Poonch and Rajouri.
Dalits constitute 19.44 percent of Jammu’s population of 53.50 lakh.
Meanwhile, during the Congress Working Committee meeting senior leaders debated the viability of demanding an increase in the SC-mandated 50 percent cap on reservations.
Along the lines of its ‘Jitni Abaadi, Utna Haq’ slogan, the party, after a meeting of its highest decision-making body, adopted a resolution promising to legislatively remove the 50 percent cap on reservations of the OBCs, SCs, and STs, in line with their “commensurate share in population”. |
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