Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, May 26: Sending a tough message to the Government, general category people, including employees and civil society members, today threatened of an intensified struggle if reservation in promotion is not rooted out.
The warning was issued during an extraordinary meeting, here today, convened by Er Saleem Bandey and presided over by educationist, K K Kapoor.
The speakers strongly criticized the Legislators who are mulling to move a bill in the State Assembly seeking continuance of reservation in promotions. They stressed that the reservations should be based on economic lines and not on caste based. They also questioned the silence of general category legislators and warned that if they fail to support this genuine struggle against reservation, they would be thrown out of power in future elections.
While targeting general category legislators, speakers said that they are playing vote bank politics and taking their support as granted. “They should learn a lesson from reserved category legislators who are fighting tooth and nail for their rights and even challenging the judiciary,” they added.
The speakers once again threatened that people of general category would take to streets if their genuine right is not addressed by the Government.
The meeting, in one voice, appealed the Government to ban reservation in promotions so that justice be provided to the deserving ones only in the best interest of the development of the country.
Those who spoke on the occasion were Shaheen Khan, Advocate Sanjay Raina, Narinder Singh , Principal Narinder Mohan Suri, Principal Sudershan Sharma, Principal Balwant Singh, Makhan Lal Sharma, Darshan Bharti, Tarlok Singh Tara, Manjeet Kumar, Zaki Hyder, Ajeet Singh , Kamaljeet Singh, Pankaj Sharma, Pankaj Maini, Babar Rather, Jaggit Singh Bunty, Zaki Hyder and Er Saleem Bandey
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