Implement SC/ST promotion order or face the music, Dalit leaders warn Deve Gowda family
Bengaluru, Feb 25: Dalit leaders warned the Deve Gowda family of teaching a lesson in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections if the SC/ST promotion order was not implemented immediately.
Speaking to reporters, Dalit leader Mavalli Shankar said that as per the decision taken in the last Cabinet meeting, the government should withdraw the demotion order for SC/ST employees based on reservation. Otherwise, Dalits would cast their votes against the JDS in the Lok Sabha elections and defeat the Deve Gowda family members.
Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has no faith on social justice. The Cabinet should take the positive order. If the Congress has faith in social justice, it should sever the alliance with the JDS, he demanded.
Instead of cancelling all the demotions by implementing the Cabinet decision and publishing the seniority list after revising it, the government has included the order of filling backlog posts of 1999 and thus delayed the implementation of the order.
In the draft order prepared by the Chief Secretary of the government, efforts were made to consider all 3,799 SC/ST promotion posts as supernumerary posts.
All seniority lists revised in the BK Pavithra case were cancelled and all promotions and demotions given based on this seniority should also be cancelled. The demotion orders of all officers and employees should be withdrawn with effective as on prior date, he demanded.
If the government failed to cancel all the demotion orders and publish the revised seniority lists, the dalit organizations would stage protest across the state, he warned.
Dalit leaders R Mohan Raj, Guruprasad Keragodu, Gopalkrishna Aralahalli and others were present.
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Man booked for duping 7 persons of Rs 91 lakh on promise of awarding govt works
Mumbai (PTI): The Mumbai police have registered a case against a man for allegedly duping seven persons of Rs 91 lakhs on the promise of awarding them works of different government departments, an official said on Tuesday.
The accused was identified as Satish Kadam, a resident of Nanded in Marathwada region, an official said.
A complaint was filed by Hanumant Vadje, who alleged that the accused cheated him and six others of around Rs 91 lakh by promising to give them various works of Urban Development and Social Justice Department, he said.
The fraud occurred between 2024 and 2026, with Kadam collecting money in cash and into his accounts, police said, adding he had returned some amount to them partially.
Multiple cheques issued by the accused bounced, prompting the victim to lodge a complaint at the Marine Drive police station. Based on the complaint, a case of cheating and criminal breach of trust was registered against him.
The case is under further investigation, the official said.
