Maitri Karar, caste census: MP Geniben raises pitch on women, OBC issues

Yet again seeking an amendment to the Registration of Marriages Act, 2009 — an contented she had raised earlier successful the Vidhan Sabha — Thakor said that signatures of parents should beryllium made mandatory, on with the colony head, successful emotion marriages and specified marriages should beryllium registered successful the villages of the women.

The OBC person was connected Sunday felicitated astatine a mega lawsuit by the Samast Uttar Gujarat Kshatriya Thakor Samaj successful Patan, the territory bordering Banaskantha from wherever she was elected arsenic an MP earlier this year. Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) main Shaktisinh Gohil was contiguous astatine the lawsuit among different enactment leaders.

Referring to the execution of a six-year-old successful Dahod, Geniben reiterated her request — which she had earlier raised successful the Gujarat Assembly — that the authorities should guarantee that abstracted girls’ schools should beryllium acceptable up with an all-women staff. While talking astir the schoolhouse main accused of sidesplitting the miss erstwhile she resisted a intersexual battle attempt, the Congress person said, “For specified mentally deranged people, represent committees astatine taluka and territory level with a psychologist, retired judge, pistillate constabulary serviceman and an advocate.” Hitting retired astatine the ruling BJP, she said that the authorities “continues to slumber successful specified cases but erstwhile an incidental happens successful West Bengal they instrumentality retired rallies.”

Echoing the request raised by different Congress leaders, including Anklav MLA Amit Chavda, Geniben said that the authorities budget allocation should beryllium made arsenic per the colonisation of a peculiar community. Talking astir the missive she precocious wrote to the PM, seeking 20% of the 27% OBC quota for highly backward communities among OBCs, Thakor said, “Many are seemingly not blessed with this. But instrumentality the illustration of Patidar, Chaudhary oregon Rajput assemblage — radical successful these communities are prosperous, they person erected hostels and precocious schools for children of their assemblage wherever they are being educated. The 146 OBC communities wage GST to the authorities government, the assemblage with higher colonisation pays higher GST and frankincense we request a colonisation proportionate fund allocation for OBCs.”

Gujarat in-charge Mukul Wasnik excessively reiterated the akin request of caste census, saying, “146 communities were added successful OBC class but 27 per cent quota did not increase. On behalf of the Congress, I state that if Congress comes to powerfulness successful Delhi, the headdress of 50% preservation volition beryllium removed done a Bill successful the Parliament.”

Hitting retired astatine BJP for postponing the section elections, Geniben said that the BJP government, which talks astir “one nation, 1 election” cannot clasp section elections successful Gujarat.

The Congress MP returned a cheque of Rs 11 lakh offered to her by leaders of assemblage to operation of girls hostel and school. “I bash not request wealth and if determination is money, the authorities pressurises with raids of ED,” she added, targeting the ruling party.