Jalandhar, May 19: A Political Party has been launched for the empowerment of a much exploited and neglected community of Indian society.
Named "Scheduled Castes" in the ancient Indian caste system, much exploitation and insult has been heaped on these people even now in a country that swears by equality and rule of law. Launching this revolutionary Party, National Scheduled Castes Alliance (NSCA), at the Jalandhar press club here on Friday, the brain behind this Party and its founder President, Paramjit Singh Kainth, said even though free India had introduced the Atrocities Act to protect this community, yet in practice and reality atrocities continue to be heaped on these people whose contribution to this civilization is so great that they should walk with dignity and pride with their heads held high.
Kainth said that the issues on the priority list of the party is non-implementation of right to education and to fight for the proper utilization of the funds released under the Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP) for the welfare of the SCs. He claimed that so far the state government had already badly failed to implement this plan. Kainth further stated that the party is planning to participate in the forth-coming Parliamentary elections. He said that the selection of the candidates will follow and the party will give its ticket to the sincere candidates. Kainth said that an awareness campaign on this issue has been launched at the district level all over Punjab. He said that the SC MLAs and MP's in the Akali-BJP combine were not working for the welfare of the SC community. They are merely providing a fake leadership of the SC community. This was part of a conspiracy by the deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal and the CM. Even though the SC community comprises 35 per cent of the total population of Punjab, they are lacking in proper leadership. The Congress Party is involved in a similar conspiracy of creating a fake leadership among the SCs.
The Parkash Singh Badal government, instead of making Punjab self-dependent has driven the state to the edge of an economic abyss .The Akali-BJP government's wrong policies have led to economic instability, unemployment, corruption, addiction to drugs, illiteracy and the rule of mafia gangs. For vote bank politics the political parties of Punjab have put everything on stake for capturing power. The Congress Party has failed to play its role as an effective opposition party.