Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 20: Member of Parliament and BJP SC Morcha national general secretary, Dr. Bhola Singh, chaired a meeting of Morcha’s J&K office bearers and senior leaders at Trikuta Nagar here, today. This meeting was convened by SC Morcha president and former MLA, Neelam Langeh.
In this meeting, the ongoing programmes of the Morcha were reviewed and future course of action discussed was discussed.
Dr. Bhola Singh, while addressing the meeting, said that SCs across the country had been exploited for vote bank politics by Congress and other political parties and in J&K too this community remained discriminated for decades together. He said that refugees from West Pakistan, 70% of whom are SCs were not granted citizenship rights for 70 long years. There was no reservation in the State Assembly and after long struggle and agitations it was implemented in 1971, while in other States, it was adopted from the day the Indian Constitution came into force, he added.
He also expressed surprise that the SCs were not issued permanent caste certificates and had to obtain new ones after every 12-15 years under the new SRO.
Dr. Bhola Singh said that after the abrogation of Article-370 by Narendra Modi Government, the refugees got citizenship rights, practice of separate caste certificates has been stopped and various schemes launched for their socio-economic upliftment have reached to their doorsteps and transformed their lives.
“Under Modi Government the SCs in J&K have got much awaited justice”, he said and added that the Union Government’s principle of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas Sabka Vishwas’ is visible in reality on ground.
SC Morcha president, Neelam Langeh, said that PM Modi has come to be the real well-wisher of SCs as for the first time a Government has shown real concern for betterment of the community. An era of uncertainty and discrimination has come to an end and a new dawn full of hopes and progress entered their lives.
DDC Chairman, Bharat Bhushan spoke on the pro-SC, pro-poor schemes of the Modi Government and said that during the last nine years the SCs have been among the top beneficiaries.
Former MLAs Dr. Krishan Lal Bhagat and Kuldeep Kumar, SC Morcha Prabhari, Jagdish Bhagat, former VC, Balbir Ram Rattan, Morcha vice president, Vijay Anand Gill, Morcha Seh-Prabhari Jeet Angral, shared dais.
Morcha general secretary. Adarsh Jethiar presented vote of thanks and another general secretary, Gulshan Bhagat conducted the proceedings.
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