CM didn’t accept offer to give up charge of department: Rajbhar

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CM didn’t accept offer to give up charge of department: Rajbhar

Monday, 18 February 2019 | PNS | Lucknow

Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Cabinet minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Sunday said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had not accepted his offer to give up the charge of the Backward Class Welfare department.

SBSP is an ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in UP and holds considerable sway over the backward class votes in eastern parts of the state.

On Thursday, Rajbhar had said that he was giving up the charge of Backward Class Welfare department as the Chief Minister had ignored his recommendations on appointment of state backward class commission.

The SBSP leader, however said on Sunday that he would like to remain in charge of the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities department.

“I had offered my resignation from the Backward Class Welfare department but it has not been accepted by the Chief Minister,” Rajbhar said.

“I told the Chief Minister that when I do not have the right to keep people of my choice in the UP backward classes commission then what is the use of being a minister. The Chief Minister told me that he would look into the matter,” Rajbhar added.

It may be recalled that Rajbhar had earlier openly declared that he would part ways with the BJP if the UP government did not implement the recommendations of the Social Justice Committee to classify various OBCs and Dalit sub-castes into three broad categories.

The committee, constituted in May last year, had in its recommendations to the state government, favoured classification of various OBC and Dalit sub-castes into three broad categories — backward, very backward and most backward — and to provide quota within quota to them.

Rajbhar had threatened to join hands with the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party after leaving the BJP-led alliance.

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