Delegation wants issue raised at ensuing Assembly session
The Mission for Political Reservations for the ST community has upped the ante ahead of the ensuing Goa Assembly session scheduled on March 27.
A delegation of the organisation called on Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai to raise the issue in the ensuing session of the Goa Legislative Assembly and help fulfil the long pending demands of the ST community for political reservations.
The Goa Forward Chief told the media after the delegation called on him at his residence on Saturday that he had raised the issue at the last Assembly session and would raise it
again in the ensuing session. “When the Constitution provides for political reservations and when the tribal community in other states is enjoying the political reservation, it is absurd that the ST community in Goa is denied of the political
reservations,” he said.
Sardesai pointed out that the BJP boast of making a tribal leader the President of India, but here is a case where the ruling party is meting out injustice to the community. “I do not know why there is a delay in notifying the reservations for the ST community in Goa, and whether anyone is fearing the reservations,” he said.
Slamming the government for linking the political reservations to readjustment of constituencies, Sardesai said justice delayed is justice denied and the government cannot make the tribal community wait for the reservations, more so when the community had supported the ruling party.
The ST delegation pointed out that they have realised that the issue of political reservation could not be taken to a logical conclusion in Delhi just because a proposal to this