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Gujjars, Bakerwals oppose Paharis’ claim on ST seats
Say Pahari ethnic tribe, can’t contest polls from reserved seats
8/10/2024 10:11:37 PM
Early Times Report

Jammu, Aug 10: Although the Pahari ethnic tribe and other groups have been granted Scheduled Tribe status, some groups of Gujjars and Bakerwals on Saturday asserted that these new groups are not eligible to contest elections on the Assembly seats reserved for STs.
Gujjars and Bakerwals claimed that tribes, who were granted Scheduled Tribe status in 1991 were eligible for contesting elections on the seats reserved for the ST.
While addressing a press conference, leaders of the All J&K Gujjar-Bakerwal Organisations Coordination Committee only the ST groups classified as ST-I are eligible to contest the reserved ST seats in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.
“The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India in August 2019. The Act bifurcated the state of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh and extended national laws to Jammu and Kashmir”, they said.
As per the Act a Delimitation Commission was constituted in March 2020, with three- members. The Commission was chaired by retired Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai
The commission submitted the final report which came into force on 20 May 2022. It reserved nine seats for 12 ST communities declared as ST in 1989 and 1991.
The report added 6 additional seats to Jammu and Kashmir, taking the total ta
Gujjars and Bakerwals claimed that tribes, who were granted ST status in 1991 were eligible for contesting elections on the reserved seats.
The Delimitation Commission reserved nine seats for 12 ST communities declared as ST in 1989 and 1991.
The Commission has based its report on ST population as per census 2011 conducted by the Registrar General of India in J&K.
ly to 90 seats.
Mohammad Anwar Chowdhary convener of the Organisation said that the Commission has based its report on ST population as per census 2011 conducted by the Registrar General of India in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The figures of STs in 2011 is the basis adopted by the Commission for reservation of ST Assembly seats. Founded on the proportionate population of J&K in 2011, nine constituencies Surankote, Mendhar, Budhal, Thanamandi, Rajouri, Gulabgarh, Kangan, Kokarnag, and Gurez were reserved for the ST communities”, he said.
In February this year, a historic bill passed in Lok Sabha to grant ST status to J&K’s Pahari Ethnic Group.
Paharis became the first linguistic group to get Scheduled Tribe status in the country. After the inclusion of four more communities, now 16 tribes are incorporated in the ST list of J&K.
On February 6, this year Lok Sabha passed the much-awaited “Constitution (Jammu and Kashmir) Schedule Tribes Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023”.
After the passing of this much-publicized bill, the “Pahari ethnic group,” “Paddari Tribe,” “Koli,” and “Gadda Brahman” communities were included in the Scheduled Tribe List of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Under the aforementioned provision, individuals classified under ST-II are not eligible to apply for reserved Assembly seats allocated to ST-I, and vice versa”, he said.
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