RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Sept.16: Hemant Soren-led UPA government in Jharkhand might have taking its decision of making the 1932 Khatiyan a base for defining local as a master stroke in the present scenario when UPA legislators and ministers including CM are facing corruption charges and instability cloud looms large on the government but for the main opposition party of the state, BJP, the decision is neither legal nor unanimous.
This was reflected from the statement of BJP state president and Rajya Sabha member Deepak Prakash which came late last night after 24 hours of cabinet decision following a core committee meeting of the party attended by BJP legislature party chief Babulal Marandi and union minister Annapurna Yadav besides others.
‘Aisa pratit hota hai ki nirnay anan-fanan me liya gaya hai, jo na vidhisammat hai aur na sarvsammat hai (It appears that this decision has been taken in a haste, which is neither legal nor unanimous),” the concluding line of the press statement issued by the party reads.
The party made it clear that there is nothing new in the decision taking local policy as the BJP had already made unsuccessful attempts to implement it. In its statement, the party said that it had already taken a similar decision within two years Jharkhand was carved out from Bihar to ensure that class III and IV jobs in the state could be given to locals but the same was rejected by the Jharkhand High Court pointing out several loopholes.
According to the party, the decision taken by the UPA government on local policy is incomplete and it is beyond the understanding of the party why employment policy was not associated with local policy.
The party while taking the decision taken on local policy for granted also cleared its stand on 27 reservation to backward classes saying that it had never remained against giving reservation and it had earlier provided 73 percent reservation to ST, SC, OBC but the same was also rejected by the Jharkhand High Court.
The party said that BJP had planned a survey to give 27 reservations to OBC in accordance with the constitutional provision during its rule but the same was stopped by the present government.
