BJP OBC Morcha demands 27℅ reservation in Panchayat, ULBs

Sunil Prajapati, President BJP OBC Morcha conducted Press conference at BJP headquarter, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.

National Secretary BJP OBC Morcha Rashpaul Verma, Vice President J&K BJP OBC Morcha Suresh Salgotra, Morcha District President Jammu Ashok Salgotra  and Morcha Mandal President Rakesh Mandal were also present on the Press Conference.

Sunil Prajapati, while addressing the media persons said the Government has proposed an amendment in Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation, Municipalities and Panchayati Raj Acts to provide reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the Urban Local Bodies (ULBS) Panchayats. Elections to the two bodies will be held only after providing reservation to the OBCs.

Prajapati said that the process for conduct of Municipal and Panchayat elections hasn’t been halted and will resume once the Acts to provide reservation to OBCs in both the bodies are amended. However, the reservation roster will have to be prepared afresh for both the bodies as presently only Women, Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes and (STs) are entitled to the quota in Municipalities and Panchayats.

Sunil Prajapati on the behalf BJP OBC Morcha and whole OBC Samaj of Jammu Kashmir hailed State BJP Leadership for raising the issues of the OBC’s with Jammu Kashmir Government.

Demanding 27℅ reservation in Panchayat, Municipal Corporations and Municipal Committees, he said that women have been provided 33 percent reservation in Municipalities and Panchayats, SCs and STs get quota based on their population in the two bodies. He stressed that the similar process must also be followed for granting reservation to OBC’s.