Cong seeks special session of Parliament for clearing  ST status to Hati community: Alka

All India Congress Committee spokesperson Alka Lamba has asked the central government to convene a special session of Parliament to give ST status to the Hati community and pass a law before the election code of conduct is implemented in Himachal.  In a press conference in Renuka ji, today Alka Lamba said that the Congress welcomes the decision of the Union Cabinet regarding giving ST status to the Hati community, but the way this decision has been taken at the end of the elections, it is proving to be a jumla.  is suspected.  She said that there is a flaw in BJP’s intention, Jai Ram government is in Himachal for five years and in Delhi also there is Modi government for eight years.  If the BJP was genuinely friendly to the Hati community, when would it have taken this decision.  The Modi government should have got it passed in the recently held monsoon session.  But the BJP has a flaw in its intention, so it takes this incomplete decision in the cabinet at the time of elections.

 Alka Lamba said that Congress’s Virbhadra Singh government had also sent a proposal in this regard to the Center but it could not be implemented due to lack of absolute majority of Congress in UPA.  The concerns of the Scheduled Caste people should also be addressed over the ST status given by Alka Lamba to the Hati community.  She said that it would have been better if the Central Government had taken a decision on the demand of ST status of the people of Bada Bhangal of Kangra, Malana of Kullu, Dodra Kwar and Chaupal of Shimla district.  But the Modi government did not do this.