Former Chief Minister and BJP national vice president Raghubar Das today flayed the coalition government on ‘1932 Khatian’ land records for deciding locals saying that the entire exercise was being carried out by the JMM/Congress government to divert people’s attention from real issues.
Das alleged that Soren’s statement of Assembly doesn’t match with the Cabinet decisions. The former Chief Minister was addressing media persons at the State BJP office where he shared the video clips of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s statement in the Jharkhand Assembly on March 23 this year during the Budget session. He alleged that the Chief Minister is misleading the people of Jharkhand because his version in the Assembly does not match his decision in the State cabinet.
Last week, the Jharkhand Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Hemant Soren approved two bills, one fixing land records of 1932 as the basis for domicile in the state. 1932 land records survey for making domicile policy was one of major issues of JMM and other regional parties.
In the Cabinet decision it was also proposed to increase reservation in state jobs for the socially and economically weaker sections of the society from 60% to 77%. “As per the bill, the reservation of the scheduled tribes (ST) would go up to 28% (from 26%), OBC would get 27% (up from 14%) and 12% for the scheduled castes (up from 10%).” “After including 10% reservation for EWS (economically weaker section), the total reservation would go up to 77%.”
However, Das said that 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 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.
