Dalit should have been in Lokpal committee: Paswan
Lok Janshakti Party Chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday said that a Dalit should have been a member in the drafting committee to draft the Lokpal Bill.
After the Congress's shameful misappropriating of the Jan Lokpal initiative (just like the shameful misappropriation of the RTI act), the reservation bandwagon has arrived, eager to cash in.
I don't recall any such demand or controversy in other law drafting committees till date. If such a convention exists, which I very well doubt, I think it is a reasonable demand. But if they haven't been bothering about earlier, this is just another shameful representation of the reservation brigade.
As one person commented on a discussion of this article on Facebook:
koi paswan sahab se ye pooche......ke daliton k liye corruption ka kuchh or matlab hota hai kyaa.......jo daliton ka wahan par hona zaruri hai taaki unka point of view bhi samjha jaa saake?
(Translation: Somebody ask Paswan-ji if the Dalits have a different meaning for corruption and therefore they need to be there in committee to provide their viewpoint)
In any case, dalits would be involved in Parliament during the discussion of the bill, and any reasonable points of theirs can be taken care of in that stage. So it is misleading to say that their views will not be taken into consideration at all.
