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| Azad pained at Bapu's belongings going under Hammer | | 'Reservation of OBCs need to be increased' | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 18: Former Chief Minister and Union Minister for Health Ghulam Nabi Azad has been aggrieved by the auctioning of the personal belongings of Mahatma Gandhi including the soil and blades of grass that carried drops of his blood after he was assassinated.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the public function organized by the OBC federation, Azad said, "As a Gandhian, I have been pained that personal belongings of Bapu, including the soil that had his blood on it had to go under the hammer" adding, "something should have been done to stop it (the auction).
Replying to another question regarding apprehensions of certain States with regards to NCTC, Ghulam Nabi Azad said that there could be different opinions over such issues in democracy and inorder to reach a consensus, the Prime Minister had initiated discussions with all the Chief Ministers. "That is why Prime Minister has been holding deliberations with all the Chief Ministers" said Azad reiterating that cooperation of States was must to fight menace of terrorism effectively.
Azad also down played the statement of Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik that Taliban were contract killers who called themselves Muslims. "Pakistani leadership says different things at different points of time" he said. Earlier, Azad arrived in Sidhra to a rousing welcome at a public function organized by the federation of OBCs. Accompanied by Dy Chief Minister Tara Chand, Member Parliament Lal Singh and legislators Kishen Chander Bhagat, Mohammad Sharief Niaz, Jugal Kishore Sharma, Vikar Rasool, GM Saroori and others. An enthusiastic gathering awaited Azad for over three hours as he returned from Billawar after attending a similar function there. Addressing the rally, Azad advocated the need to extend reservation to the backward and down trodden sections of the society. "It is due to the reservation policy drafted by Balasaheb and implemented by Pandit Nehru that today J&K has Dy Chief Minister and Parliament has Speaker who belong to Scheduled Castes. He said that it was during the regime of PDP-Congress coalition that State passed a legislation allowing reservation to SC/ST and OBC. He however confessed that reservation extended to OBCs in the State was far less in proportion to their population. "There is a need to conduct a survey on the exact population of OBCs and then raise their percentage in the reservation" Azad said. |
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