04/26/2011
Bahujan Samaj Party leader, Mayawati has requested that Dalits should be included in the Lokpal Bill committee. The demand was rejected by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad who said that the BSP had a lot to answer to before making requests.
Shankar Prasad called the BSP government anti-Dalit because it has not made any major changes to Dalit welfare in Uttar Pradesh. Furthermore, he said that the state’s government failed to find the murderer of Health Official, B P Singh even 3 weeks after his death on April 2.
The BSP defended itself saying that it reduced crime against women in UP to 11.9% while Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh still reported figures as high as 13.9% and 22.3%, respectively. Mayawati said that her government had filled category posts that lay vacant in the state for years, recruited 20,000 Dalit-caste members as teachers as well as created over 100,000 new jobs for sweepers. Mayawati added that her party remained the only one that took swift action against members that were accused in criminal cases.
The BSP rejected all allegations according to which its government in UP was falling apart and told the BJP to monitor the performance of its own state governments more closely.
Source: http://newstonight.net/node/1238
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