Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Dec 2: Prominent Gujjar leader and intellectual of the State Shamsher Hakla Poonchi has appealed the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti to introduce a bill in the coming J&K Legislative Assembly session of 2018 for reservation of Assembly segments for Gujjar and Bakerwal community in the State.
Hakla in a statement here, today said the political reservation was compulsory for the Gujjars Bakerwals who have been already given Scheduled Tribe status by Government of India in the year 1991. The Gujjar Bakerwal community was granted Scheduled Tribe by the Government of India 26 years ago but the State Government had failed to grant them political reservation.
Shamsher Hakla Poonchi said the Gujjar Bakerwal community is still politically, economically, socially lagging behind and backward.
In the State of Jammu and Kashmir there are 31 State Assembly and two Lok Sabha segments which are mostly inhabited by Gujjars Bakerwals and these segments be reserved for Gujjar Bakerwal community. But due to indifferent attitude of the J&K State Government the Gujjars Bakerwals community stand deprived of this political reservation right.
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