Hardik Patel’s hunger strike at Gujarat: Deve Gowda writes to Modi
Bengaluru, September 3: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Patidar community protests and youth leader Hardik Patel’s hunger strike in Gujarat.
In the letter, Gowda said that in recent days, he has been observing the Patidar community’s protests in Gujarat. Youth leader of the same community Hardik Patel has been fighting for their rights for the last three years. Now, he has started hunger strike. He is just 25 years old. At this young age, he has been fighting for the welfare of his community. Considering his health and pro-social activities and fights, the central and state government should take steps to fulfill his demands, he said.
When he was the prime minister in 1996, the Jat community in Rajasthan had submitted a representation demanding backward class status to their community as the community was financially backward. So, he had constituted the Backward Classes Commission and asked it to submit a report. The Commission had recommended to include the Jat community to the backward classes category as the community lagging behind in all sectors. Based on it, he had included the community to the OBC category, he recalled.
But the court had stayed the decision of his government then. Later, the central government had convinced the court on the need to provide the OBC status to the Jat community and included it in the OBC list. In the same way, the government should consider the demands of the Patidar community and constitute a commission to study their condition and implement its report, he urged Modi.
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SC judges to make their assets public, amid row over cash at Justice Yashwant Varma’s house: Report
New Delhi: The Supreme Court judges have reportedly agreed to disclose their assets to the public by publishing the same on the top court's website.
The decision was taken recently at a full court meeting and a resolution in this regard was adopted which will apply to future judges as well, as reported by Bar and Bench on Thursday.
A copy of the resolution is yet to be made public.
According to the report, the decision was taken in the wake of recent controversies surrounding opacity in the functioning of the judiciary, especially after a huge pile of cash was allegedly discovered at the residence of Justice Yashwant Varma, currently a judge of the Allahabad High Court.
The publication of assets on website was not mandatory earlier but was discretionary subject to whether an individual judge wanted to do the same, the report added.
