The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has criticised the State Government for trying to legislate the SC-ST Sub-Plan without putting the draft into the public domain for suggestions and objections.
Talking to reporters at Assembly’s media after attending the Business Advisory Committee meeting here on Thursday, MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi said that the without keeping the draft legislation into public domain shows that the government was not serious about the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the State. He said that proposed legislation should have been discussed in a regular session of the Legislative Assembly at least for four days. However, he said that the government appears to be in a haste to pass the legislation without any debate.
Akbaruddin Owaisi said that the government’s haste raises suspicion about the existence of several loopholes in the proposed legislation. He said Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was trying to prove that he was the champion of SCs and STs. He said if the Chief Minister was serious, then he would have taken public suggestions and objections into consideration. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s absence from the BAC meeting itself proves that he is not serious about SC-ST Sub-Plan, he alleged.
The MIM leader said that the government’s decision to hold special session on SC/ST Sub-Plan while ignoring other issues like energy crisis, drinking water problem and law and order situation indicates that Kiran Kumar Reddy was not serious about the public welfare. However, he said that the MIM would extend total cooperation to the government on all its moves aimed at welfare of Dalits. However, he said such steps should be taken with complete sincerity.
Akbaruddin Owaisi also demanded that the government introduce Sub-Plans for Minorities and Backward Classes on the lines of SC/ST Sub-Plan.
Meanwhile, CPI (M) MLA J Ranga Reddy too raised suspicion over State Government’s honesty over the proposed law. He said that the government was yet to provide a draft bill to the members and without studying it properly, they could not participate in the debate. (INN)