Ranchi lok Sabha MP Ram Tahal Chaudhary on Saturday said that he has raised demand from the Centre to set up a separate ministry for the backward classes in the lines of the Scheduled caste and scheduled tribes ministry. Thanking the Central Government for fulfilling the long pending demand of BC commission, he said that the separate ministry for backward classes will also be formed.
Chaudhary, while addressing media persons in a press conference here on Saturday said that the backward classes commission will be on the lines of SC, ST commission. The commission will have five members, one among which will be member from minority class, he said.
Thanking the Central government, Chaudhary said that the Narendra Modi led government is continuously working for the uplift of backward and subjugated classes. Maximum benefits of the welfare schemes of government are reaching to the targeted population. He said that by providing Constitutional status to the backward classes commission the government has empowered 50 per cent of country’s population.
The Ranchi MP said that the commission was pending since years and by way of 123rd amendment it was finally given Constitutional validity. He, on the occasion, thanked PM Narendra Modi and other Cabinet Ministers of the Union Government on behalf of the people of Jharkhand. Chaudhary also extended greetings to department minister Thawar Chand gehlot and Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
State vice president professor Aditya Sahu said on the occasion that Congress party has done politics in the name of dalits, backward classes and tribals for years but it never considered their pain. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faced the grief of being in poverty and he understands the pain of the poor. That is why he is continuously working for the uplift of the poor,” he said.
Spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo and Media in-charge Shivpoojan Pathak were also present on the occasion.