{"id":12849,"date":"2017-03-28T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=12849"},"modified":"2017-03-28T18:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:37:02","slug":"bjp-say-thank-national-obc-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/bjp-say-thank-national-obc-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP to say \u2018Thank you\u2019 through National OBC Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Constitutional status at par with the SC and ST commissions<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is playing caste cards shrewdly. It wants to give the National Other Backward Classes (OBC) Commission constitutional status, at par with the National Scheduled Castes Commission and the National Scheduled Tribes Commission. The party is accusing the Opposition, especially the Congress, for wanting to scuttle the move by stalling the functioning of the Rajya Sabha. The move requires a constitutional amendment, which would add Section 332A and Section 342A and it has to be passed in both Houses of Parliament. The first grants constitutional status and the second requires parliament approval for adding or deleting any community to the list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).<\/p>\n<p>A highly placed source in the Union cabinet said that the OBCs have voted overwhelmingly for the BJP in the recent round of assembly elections. The reference is mainly to the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, where a majority of OBCs, especially the non-Yadav OBCs, had voted for the BJP. It seems that the party wants to say a big \u2018Thank you\u2019 to the OBCs through the elevation of the National OBC Commission to a constitutional body. The government source revealed that the demand for constitutional status for the OBC Commission has been there for nearly three decades. But it is only now that the BJP and Modi government have decided to act on it.<\/p>\n<p>An all-party delegation of Members of Parliament belonging to the OBCs had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently and pleaded for constitutional status to the OBC Commission. The cabinet had approved the proposal in its meeting on March 23.<\/p>\n<p>It was disclosed that the backward class commission was part of the National Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Commission for a long time. It was the Vajpayee government which had set up a separate national commission for the STs at the request of representatives belonging to the Scheduled Tribes (STs) who had pleaded that their interests get overshadowed because of the numerical dominance of the Scheduled Castes.<\/p>\n<p>The National Backward Classes Commission will have a retired justice as the chairman based on precedence. Ever since it was set up in 1993, the Backward Classes Commission had a retired justice as its chairman, which is not the case with the SC Commission and the ST Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition in Rajya Sabha had stalled the proceedings saying that the Question Hour should be suspended and the issue of vacancies in different commissions should be discussed. The Chairman of the Upper House, Hamid Ansari, rejected the Opposition notice for suspension of Question Hour. It is for this reason that discussion on the Finance Bill and the Finance Minister\u2019s reply could not take place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Photo by Anil Shakya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Constitutional status at par with the SC and ST commissions By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is playing caste cards shrewdly. It wants to give the National Other Backward Classes (OBC) Commission constitutional status, at par with the National Scheduled Castes Commission and the National Scheduled Tribes Commission. 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