Bihar Chief Minister, Jeetan Ram
Manjhi, has called for the limit of the reservation for SC/STs, OBCs, and other
backward section to be raised to 80% from the existing 49.5%.
He was addressing a public
meeting during his civic reception at Banshidhar secondary school under Adapur
block in Bihar’s east Champaran district. He said, "“The reservation (in
government jobs and educational institutions) be hiked to 80 per cent to be in
sync with the population benefiting from the incentive.”
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| Jeeten Ram Manjhi |
He argued that the number of
SC/SC and OBS people is around 80 per cent of the total population of the state,
therefore the the reservation percentage should also fall in accordance with
the same.
Hailing himself from a Mahadalit
Mushar caste, Manjhi spoke that he will leave no stone unturned in building a
consensus on the issue and will also try to channelize all the like-minded
parties towards achieving this goal. And if a need be, will not shy away from
launching an agitation for the bar of reservation to be raised drastically
high.
Manjhi, 70, is not new to making
controversial statements; his statements on inter-caste marriages, calling the
upper caste people outsiders in the state, and asking the dalits to increase
their population to avail benefits of government schemes created lots of furor.
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