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Anti-quota bill strike paralyses work in Uttar Pradesh
Friday December 14, 2012 09:01:18 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Work at most
state government offices was paralysed for the second day Friday
as employees protested the move for reservation in promotions in
government jobs to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
A bill to provide such reservation, the Constitution 117th
Amendment Bill, has been moved in parliament by the United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
Protestors said they would not withdraw the strike until the quota
bill is rejected in parliament. The ruling Samajwadi Party in the
state is hell bent in its opposition to the draft central
legislation.
Agitating under the banner of the Sarvajan Hitay Sanrakshan Samiti,
the government employees also held demonstrations at district
headquarters and raised slogans against the Congress, the Bahujan
Samaj Party (BSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In Lucknow, demonstrators barged into the BJP office and tore off
posters and banners put up there.
Later, police chased them away and brought the situation under
control.
The main departments where work was paralysed were: housing, the
public works department, mining, irrigation, the bridge
corporation, power, agriculture and health. The Jawahar Bhawan and
Indira Bhawan, which house government departments, saw thin
attendance.
Shailendra Dubey, president of the Sarvajan Hitay Sanrakshan
Samiti, addressing protestors said the amendement bill was
"dangerous" and would severely damage careers in the government.
"If the quota in promotion bill is passed, it will be implemented
with retrospective effect from 1995, and 15 to 20 years junior
SC/ST employees will be made your seniors and bosses," he warned
the striking government employees.
Dubey pointed out that the implementation of the bill would mean
that more than two lakh general and OBC category employees would
also be demoted.
Employees said that the trend towards such constitutional
amendments, coming after Supreme Court judgments and motivated by
political gains for the ruling dispensation at the centre, were
dangerous.
The employees said the strike would continue until the bill is
withdrawn.
Meanwhile, more than 4.5 lakh government employees in favour of
the bill Friday worked overtime and said they would not let the
government come to a grinding halt because of the strike.
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