Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, July 26: The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) today condemned large-scale violence in several parts of Maharashtra over reservation agitation launched by Maratha Kranti Morcha. The LGP said when Maratha community’s demand for 16% quota in educational institutions and government jobs is pending in High Court there was no justification for launching stir and resorting to violence.
The spokesman of the party also criticised the BJP government for utterly failing to control violence and ensure peace. The spokesman, criticising the political forces working behind the scene with agitating people, said the Marathas are by no means a poor or oppressed class and are dominant political force in the state. Hence the demand for reservation doesnot appear to be justified, the spokesman said adding the reservation should be confined to SC/ST groups and economically underprivileged class. The spokesman said with 2019 Lok Sabha election the political forces have been propping such groups to serve their vested interest. The spokesman recalled that it had happened during the Gujarat assembly election when the Congress had shamelessly resorted to reservation politics and there was also violent Patidar agitation.
The spokesman questioned why dominant landowning communities like Patidars, Marathas and Jats are demanding the reservation. Moreover reservation is not panacea to the problems, the spokesman said and held the successive governments at the centre and states responsible for failing to provide balanced socio-economic growth which has led to this situation. Laying stress on reaching out to every section for socio-economic development, the spokesman said disruptive political forces over the years have resorted to short-cut route for gains, which has proved quite dangerous for the nation.
The spokesman said the LGP, firmly believing in no caste discrimination in politico-socio-economic field, has been relentlessly working in this direction by promoting every segment of the society. The spokesman said not only caste-based various political formations but also major parties have resorted to keeping the casteism alive to serve their vested interest and their slogan for social equality is just a farce. The LGP said that rampant corruption in various government sponsored poverty alleviation programmes have failed to effectively change the ground situation, hence rooting out corruption from the system is essential to achieve the target.
