Implement welfare schemes for SCs, STs, OBCs: SMP
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Social Movement Party (SMP) on Saturday asserted that the welfare schemes enshrined in the directive principles and the fundamental rights of the masses especially in favour of the SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities and women folk guaranteed in the Constitution of India are not being properly implemented and protected in letter and spirit.
Addressing a press conference here, R.K Ankodia, National President, SMP said that present Coalition Government is depriving the aboriginal indigenous Indians viz. SCs, STs, OBCs.
Ankodia expressed that the SMP is committed to provide liberty, equality, fraternity and justice to all the citizens as enshrined under the preamble of the Constitution of India.
Highlighting the resolution passed in the plenary session of the party, he asserted, “SMP shall strive to fulfill the dream of ‘Welfare State’ by invoking the directive principles of state
policy enshrined under part IV of the Constitution of India as a base to govern the country.”
“SMP shall ensure the representation and share of Minority Communities in the ratio of their population in the country in politics and economic resources, give the empowerment, self reliance and due political representation to the women in India, ensure the effective representation/share of SCs, STs and OBCs in the private sector, establish such judicial system through comprehensive judicial reforms so that everybody may get economical and speedy justice, ensure the effective representation of ignored and deprived sections of the society in judiciary,” he added.
SMP shall enact exhaustive legislation for the effective implementation of the reservation policy which would be kept outside the preview of the judicial review, he said adding that it shall implement Schedule 5 and 6 of the Constitution of India for the overall development of the Tribals.
“SMP shall make legislation for the utility of income from the temples and other religious institutions for the public welfare schemes like education and health care,” he said.
Prominent amongst those who attended the press-conference were Noor Mohammed Shomuli (UP), Som Dutt (Dehradoon, U. K.), Chetan Bairwa (Jaipur), Shanker Lal Kheralia (Gurgaon, Haryana), Kumari Mukeshwati Aadvanshi (Delhi), K.P Singh (Uttarakhand, Dehradoon), Nasib Singh (Punjab), R.K Kanethia (Delhi), Tirath Ram (Jammu), Narindra Chouhan (Dehradoon), Hari Chand (Uttrakhand), Suresh Kumar (Punjab), Suniel Bhawmaraj (Assam), Shahbaz, Ashok Kumar Basotra, Dayal Singh, Dheeraj Thapa, Ajit Kumar Vashishath, Hem Raj Phonsa, Des Raj Yadav, Abid Hussain, Jeet Raj Bazala, Abdul Jabbar Hajjam, Parshotam Kumar, Dr. Ramzan Hussain, Neelam Digra, Madhu Bala, Sarwan Kumar Kundal, Bansi Lal Chargotra, Jai Paul, Purshotama Kumari, Ajay Jagotra, Bharat Bhushan, Prem Kumar Chowdhary and Kanwarjeet Sethi.