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| Modi Government anti-farmers, insensitive to SCs/STs: Punia | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 22: All India Congress Committee (AICC) Spokesperson and Senior Congress leader P.L.Punia has said that a grave ‘agrarian crisis’ of unprecedented scale plagues the ‘Farm Sector’ today, putting a question mark on India’s food security because of the anti-farmer policies of the Modi led government at the centre.
This was disclosed by Punia while addressing a press conference at party headquarters here today. PCC Senior Vice President Sham Lal Sharma, Chief Spokesman Ravinder Sharma, General Secretaries PCC Thakur Balwan Singh, Ch. Shah Mohammad, Vikram Malhotra, Namrata Sharma; Co-Treasurer Rajnish Sharma and District President Jammu (U) Anil Chopra were also present in the Press Conference. Punia who is also Chairman of the National Commission for Schedule Caste (SC), accused the Modi Government of being insensitive towards the welfare of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST) in the country.
He said that the only ordinance issued by the previous Congress Government which was allowed to be lapsed and not re-promulgated by the present BJP government, The Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Ordinance, 2014', which envisaged speedy and expeditious disposal of SC/ST cases by an exclusive Special Court at District level, appointment of an exclusive Public Prosecutor and punishment for new offences like garlanding with footwear, compelling to dispose or carry human or animal carcasses, attempting to promote feeling of ill will against SCs/STs, imposing or threatening a social or economic boycott etc. |
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