Cong bats for caste census
at once
Panaji, Sep 22: Stating that BJP will not be allowed to divert attention from public issues, Congress leader Girish Chodankar on Friday demanded to declare 2011 caste census immediately, so the Bahujan Samaj gets justice in reservation. In an apparent jibe at RSS, BJP and Modi government, he said that women reservation should not become another ‘Jumla’ like crediting 15 lakhs in account of every citizen which was failed promise of the saffron party. Chodankar addressed a press conference in the Congress House and demanded immediate implementation of the Women Reservation Bill. Girish Chodankar said that a special session of parliament was called and all were kept in the dark about the business. “People should understand why BJP is doing this, it is only because whenever our leader Rahul Gandhi raises the public issues, BJP tries to divert the attention of the nation,” he said, adding the BJP government is not ready to debate on it. “There are 90 secretaries in the union government, out of which only three belongs to OBC. (IANS)
Protest by
Cong in Jammu
Jammu, Sep 22: The Congress staged a protest here on Friday demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into an alleged scam of Rs 14,000 crore in the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission in Jammu and Kashmir. Raising slogans against the BJP, the protesters tried to march from the Congress headquarters at Residency Road to the Raj Bhavan but were stopped by police. The protest was led by Jammu and Kashmir Congress unit president Vikar Rasool Wani. Wani announced that the party’s youth wing would start a signature campaign from Saturday to know whether the people want assembly elections or continuation of the Lt Governor rule. The Congress leader claimed that the people of Jammu and Kashmir were fed up with the BJP and wanted early restoration of a democratically elected government. Wani said senior IAS officer Ashok Kumar Parmar claimed a scam worth Rs 14,000 crore in the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission in the Union territory. (PTI)