Amidst the political uproar over reservation, Narendra Modi government’s MSME minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha supremo Jitan Ram Manjhi has made a big statement on this. Taking the cover of Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, he has advocated for review of reservation. Jitan Ram Manjhi spoke to media persons after the party’s membership campaign in Patna. These days, there is a debate going on across the country on the Supreme Court’s comment on creamy layer and sub-categorization in SC ST reservation. Here in Bihar, there is a stir over the 65 percent reservation limit. The parties included in the India Alliance including RJD are demanding to include it in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution. Just before the Bihar assembly elections of 2015, when RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat talked about reviewing the reservation policy, there was a political uproar. Many political parties and caste organizations strongly opposed it. BJP had suffered a crushing defeat in this election.
Jitan Ram Manjhi said in Patna that Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar had said that reservation should be reviewed in 10 years, so that it can be known which class has benefited how much. This will help in the development of the backward class. Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular’s patron cum Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi said these things while starting the party’s membership campaign on Saturday.
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At his residence on M Strand Road, he said that our party is against the creamy layer in SC ST reservation. He said that our party has been running since 2015. Today it is represented in the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council and Lok Sabha. The party has workers not only in Bihar but also in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Create 50 members at every booth contesting the election
The party’s national president Dr. Santosh Kumar Suman said that all party officials will have to make members. Words alone will not work. Those who want to contest elections should make at least 50 members at each booth in their assembly constituency. The more members the party has, the stronger the party’s roots will be. State president and MLA Dr. Anil Kumar said that all district presidents have to make at least 10 thousand members.
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District conference from November
He said that the party will stake claim to contest elections from the assembly constituency which has more members. District conference will be held from November. After the district conference is over, block conference and booth level conference will be held in the marked assembly constituency. Membership in-charge Anil Rajak conducted the proceedings.
