RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Sept 23: Sharing video clips of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s statement in the Jharkhand assembly on March 23 this year during the budget session today, BJP national vice president and former Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das today said Hemant Soren is misleading the people of Jharkhand because his version in the assembly does not match his decision in the state cabinet.
In the video clip, Hemant Soren is heard saying that locals cannot be defined on the basis of 1932 Khatiyan and that if they are, the court will declare it incorrect, despite the fact that the same chief minister recently decided in a cabinet meeting to define locals on the basis of 1932 Khatiyan.
Das went on to say that the entire exercise was done to divert people’s attention away from illegal mining, for which the Enforcement Directorate has filed a charge sheet claiming that the chief minister’s representative is involved in the scam.
Das said like the decision of making 1932 Khatiyan base for identification of locals, enhancing the percentage of reservation to OBC is also an exercise of fooling people as without survey one cannot fix reservation percentage. He said that the BJP was intentional to enhance reservation of BC and for that it has started a survey in 2019 but so far that survey report has not come.
Das said the Soren government is not intentional to formulate local policy as according to the same cabinet decision, under which decision for defining locals on the basis of 1932 Khatiyan and giving 27 percent reservation to BC were taken, will not be implemented till it is included in the ninth schedule of the constitution. Inclusion of such decision is tough as it is unconstitutional as earlier when the matter of 1932 Khatiyan had reached before the high court, a constitution bench had termed it unconstitutional.
Das said in 2016, the BJP has identified those as local who are residing in the state for last 30 years or have taken birth in Jharkhand or have name of their ancestors in the land record and after defining locals ensured appointment of locals for class III and IV job for four years without any dispute but the government during hearing of petition in the court submitted that the policy was wrong and made it controversial.
Das said that JMM government during its 1000 days of rule did not fulfill its anyone of the promises and some of major promises which remained unfulfilled include 5 lakh jobs within a year, Rs 5000 to unemployed graduates as unemployment allowance, Rs 7000 to unemployed post graduates as unemployment allowance, Rs 2000 to poor girls as Chulha Kharcha and Rs 3 lakh for house besides others.
