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 The demotion orders of all officers and employees should be withdrawn with effective as on prior date, he demanded.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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4 workers die after being buried under coal slurry in Jharkhand's Dhanbad
Dhanbad (Jharkhand) (PTI): At least four workers died after being buried under coal slurry in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Saturday, a police official said.
The incident took place at Moonidih coal washery in the command area of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL).
"Bodies of all four workers were dug out of debris during a rescue operation," Putki police station in-charge Waqar Hussain told PTI.
The incident took place when coal slurry was being loaded into trucks by workers, during which a large chunk of slurry fell and trapped several workers underneath, officials said.
The deceased have been identified as Manik Bauri, Dinesh Bauri, Deepak Bauri, and Hemlal Gope.
Meanwhile, the family members of the deceased and local villagers placed the bodies in front of the washery gate and began a protest.
They demanded compensation, jobs for dependents and action against those responsible for the incident.
Police and administration officials are trying to pacify the protesters, an official said.
