The power engineers will intensify the agitation against the move of the Union government to present the Constitution (117th amendment) bill in lok Sabha for Reservation in promotion to the schedule caste and schedule tribe state employees in Promotion in government service.
Sarvjan hitay sarakshan samiti, an organization comprising of all departments of the state government to fight against the Constitution amendment has given a call for nation wide protest meeting on June 12. The Constitution amendment bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha during the previous Congress led UPA regime and the bill remains to be passed by the lok Sabha.
The Supreme Court in April 2012 had quashed the legislation for granting reservation in promotion to the SC ST employees. A year later to neutralize the verdict of the Supreme Court the then UPA government had introduced the Constitution (117th amendment) bill 2013 in Rajya Sabha. The bill was passed by the upper house of the parliament. Bahuajn Samaj party had vociferously raised the issue in both the houses of parliament in 2012 and 2013 demanding restoration of the facility of reservation in promotion for the SC, ST employees.
The president of the Samiti Shailendra Dube said here on Sunday that protest meeting will be held at all the state capitals on June 12 to register their protest against the Constitutitution amendment bill and mobilize support to mount pressure on the elected MPs. He said the decision for the nationwide protest agitation against the Constitution amendment bill was taken in the meeting recently held at Bhopal. The state employees leaders opposing the bill from states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh,Telengana, Karnataka and several other states had participated in the meeting.
Shailendra Dube said the state employees of the general and OBCs category are dead against the move of the NDA government at the Center to restore the facility of reservation in promotion for the SC, ST employees by introducing the Constitution amendment bill in lok Sabha during the next monsoon session of the parliament. He said over three crore state employees and teachers of the state run schools are against the proposed legislation as it is against the interests of the over two third of the state employees across the country.
He said even after five years after the Supreme court quashed the law for reservation in promotion in 2012 , it is yet to be implemented in basic education and other departments of UP. He said large number of teachers from the Sc category who availing the benefit of promotion in reservation were promoted are yet to be reverted. He said the teachers from the general category who were denied promotion are still waiting for justice after the five years of the Supreme Court judgment.