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| After FDI, Govt now faces quota |
| After FDI, Govt now faces quota bill dilemma
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| INDIA
, 10-December-2012
2:59:27 AM |
| The government just managed to successfully tide over the FDI issue in Parliament, but now it has another task at hand.
The bill for providing quota to the Scheduled Castes (SC) and the Scheduled Tribes (ST) in promotions in government jobs is listed in the Rajya Sabha today. And with arch rivals Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party holding diametrically opposite views on the bill, the Upper House is set for a showdown.
"We have listed it on first position and we would want it to get passed. We will try and convince the Samajwadi Party," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said today.
Mayawati-led BSP is pushing for the bill, but Mulayam Singh and his Samajwadi Party are opposed to reservation in promotions for government jobs because they believe it will upset their upper caste votebank. The SP has vowed the stall it.
"Samajwadi Party wants the House to function, but parting of the communities is not right and SP is not in its favour. I am sure results will be in favour of the people," said SP leader Naresh Agrawal.
"We are not bothered about SP and BSP. We have always cared about the well being and progress of Dalits and will reveal out stand in Parliament accordingly," BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said.
The government will have to walk the political tightrope to smoothen the ruffled feathers in managing the two as both SP and BSP are supporting it from outside and both have played a crucial role in government getting through the FDI on both Houses.
Sources had said that the support in FDI was a political trade-off and that the government could give in to Mayawati's demands on the bill promotions in government jobs
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