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Madhya Pradesh

Daljit Singh Stresses BCs Welfare

AICC secretary, Shri Daljit Singh attending a meeting of the district presidents of Backward class Department in Bhopal on May 31. PCC Backward Class department chief Rambhoovan Singh Patel addresssed the meet. Others present are Ramashwar Nikhra, Mahavir Prasad, Deepchand Yadav, Rajkumar Patel and Masorat Shahid.

BHOPAL : AICC secretary and incharge of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Daljit Singh, while addressing the district presidents of the Pradesh Congress Committee Backward Class Department here on 31 May advised that a separate cell should be set up with backward class representatives from the ministries, Pradesh Congress Committee and the District Congress Committees to help solve the problems of these classes.

Pradesh vice-president, Shri Rameshwar Nikhra said the BJP is looking for an opportunity to malign the image of chief minister, Shri Digvijay Singh. BJP has not done anything for development. Shri Rajkumar Patel, PCC general secretary, said that there should be a provision of 14% reservation for backward classes in government service. It should be our duty to bring together the people of 87 communities from backward classes into the mainstream and it should be our strong determination to bring these people from backward classes into the party fold.

The meeting was presided over by Pradesh Congress Committee Backward Class president, Shri Rambhoovan Singh Patel and others present were PCC vice-president Shri Mahavir Prasad Vashist, general secretary, Shri Govind Goyal, general secretary, Smt. Masarat Shahid, Backward Class Pradesh secretary, Shri Ramsharan Singh Rana, Shri Gulabchand Shahu and other office-bearers.

NHRC Initiative on Best Bakery Case Hailed
Shri Abhishek Singhvi, AICC spokesperson, issued the following statement on July 2, 2003.

"We welcome the National Human Rights Commission’s initiation of inquiries regarding the conduct of the Best Bakery Case by the State Government. The shocking behaviour of State agencies in conducting a collusive prosecution foredoomed to failure is consistent with their past conduct over the Gujarat killings.

A predetermined Chief Minister has successfully presided over a collusive prosecution agency, permitted suborning of witnesses and disappearance of complaints in a trial where truth has been the major casualty. The verdict has been followed by eloquent silence regarding appeals.

Even if appeals are filed, we can accurately guess their fate in the hands of such a predisposed state agency. Nothing short of reopening the case entirely, placing it in the hands of a specially appointed independent public prosecutor and punishing those responsible for the collusive prosecution can even begin to satisfy the ends of justice."