The congress on tuesday demanded 27 per cent reservation for Other backward classes (OBCs) in local bodies
in gujarat and asked the government to make public the Justice Jhaveri Commission report. The opposition
Congress also strongly advocated caste-based census. These demands were made during the dharna organized by
Congress Legislature party leader amit Chavda, state unit president Shaktisinh Gohil, Jagdish Thakor and others
under the banner of “Jan Adhikar Samiti” at Satyagraha Cantonment Ground here.
Chavda said that OBC leaders associated with the ruling bjp were also invited to join the dharna, but none
turned up. He sarcastically said that it seems that "BJP leaders are following the instructions of their party high
command". He said the Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes and OBC communities would organize a
mahapanchayat for their rights and oppose the "discriminatory policies of the government".
Chavda said, “We had invited the OBC community leaders sitting in the government to come for this dharna but
no one came with us. He ignored his community and decided not to participate as per the orders of his party. If
the community has voted you to power, then you should come forward and support them." He demanded the
government to conduct a caste-based census, publish the Justice Jhaveri Commission report and give 27 percent
reservation to the OBC community in all local self-governing institutions.
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