Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 10: R K Kalsotra, president of All India Confederation of SC/ST/OBC Organisations, J&K, has charged the State Government with failure to protect the constitutional rights of reservation in promotion of the SC/ST/OBC, RBA and LoC Category employees in the court of law.
The judgment in this regard is likely to do irreparable financial and status loss to the category officials in particular and the weaker sections in general as there is merely 2/3% reservation of reserved category in Government services, he said while talking to media persons, here today.
“It is entirely the failure of the present Government which could not defend its own Reservation Act 2004. Ever since the constitutional amendment 77, 81, 82 and 85 have been made by the Parliament we have been asking the State Government from time to time to get the said amendments passed in State Assembly, though the Reservation Act 2004 has been passed by the State Assembly after the said amendments but the ruling class has always been ignoring the interest of the reserved categories,” he alleged.
Mr Kalsotra appealed the Government to do everything for protection of the constitutional rights of the reserved categories and in the meantime asked the Law Department not to implement the Judgment dated 09-10-2015. “The Reserved Category Ministers and MLA/MLC and other legislatures are also requested to take up and pursue the matter with Deputy CM and the Chief Minister in whose last tenure the Reservation Act 2004 was passed,” he added.
Mr Kalsotra claimed that as per the Government data, there is inadequate representation of reserved categories in Government services as these categories are still educationally and economically backward.
If the Government fails to protect our rights, we will expose the Government and gherao the Civil Sectt. on its opening in Jammu,” he warned.
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