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Representatives of All India Bahujan Samaj Party (AIBSP), Christian Coordination Council (CCC) and the assemblage leaders connected Tuesday demanded that the authorities assistance Scheduled Caste (SC) presumption to Christians of Dalit origin. The leaders raised concerns implicit what they described arsenic the continued nonaccomplishment of the successive governments successful Andhra Pradesh to resoluteness the issue.
Addressing the media, erstwhile DGP J. Purnachandra Rao alleged that successive governments headed by Chief Ministers from ascendant communities, including Kamma and Reddy leadership, for decades had not made capable efforts to unafraid a favourable determination from the Centre.
Despite having governmental power astatine the nationalist level, the contented was not accorded a priority, helium alleged.
Pointing to the implementation of the preservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), helium said governmental enactment had acted with velocity and coordination to widen benefits to the ascendant communities, portion the long-pending request of Dalit Christians had not received with akin urgency.
“If governments could determination swiftly to guarantee EWS reservations for the Kammas and Reddies, wherefore has determination been nary comparable effort to unafraid SC presumption for Dalit Christians for implicit 7 decades?” helium asked.
Mr. Rao said that Dalit Christians continued to look untouchability, societal exclusion and economical backwardness, but were denied SC presumption solely connected the ground of religion. He argued that this amounted to ‘discrimination’ and called for corrective enactment successful enactment with law principles.
Former IAS serviceman Samuel Anand Kumar, CCC president Ashok Kumar and others demanded the repeal of Paragraph 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, and the granting of SC presumption to Dalit Christians. Later, the leasders submitted a practice addressed to the President of India to the NTR territory Collector.
