Jharkhand: BJP, Congress criticize JMM’s demand for 100% job quota. Ranchi News – Times of India

Jamshedpur: The demand by some JMM MLAs from East Singhbhum district to reserve 100% jobs for tribals and indigenous people in both government and private sectors in Jharkhand has been strongly criticized by the BJP and the ruling alliance partner. Congress.
This demand was especially raised by Ghatshila MLA and senior JMM leader Ramdas. soren Later Tata Steel, formerly TISCO, came up with an advertisement on trade apprenticeship. The central party leadership also said that they are supporting the demand so that Jharkhand gets at least 75% reservation in the private sector. Later, the company said that it would look into the demands made by Ramdas.
Chief among those criticizing the demand is former BJP veteran and now independent MLA from Jamshedpur (East) Saryu. Opinion, BJP Jamshedpur mahanagar president Gunjan Yadav, and senior Congress leader and state finance minister Rameshwar Oraon.
Speaking to TOI on this issue, JMM Central General Secretary Supriyo Bhattacharjee said, “In our manifesto for the assembly elections, we had clearly said that 75% of jobs in both private and public sectors should be reserved for tribals and indigenous people. The party fully supports their demand. . Ramdas and other MLAs of East Singhbhum region so that indigenous and tribals get 100% reservation in jobs in private companies.”
Bhattacharjee rubbished the allegations made by another tribal party and a BJP ally. ajsu-pu, that JMM was raising such demand Hemant Soren The government has failed to promise to provide five lakh jobs every year.
Senior JMM leader and Transport Minister Champai Soren, who had earlier staged several agitations in Adityapur industrial area to press for reservation in private jobs for tribals and indigenous peoples, said the demands were justified and should be implemented.
However, state Congress president Rameshwar Oraon said: “In our manifesto, we have said that the new private companies coming up in Jharkhand should recruit 75% of the local people.” He said that talks are going on in this regard since the government was formed in 2019.
He said that the Congress has not taken any hard stand on hiring only tribals and indigenous people. Oraon termed the demand raised by JMM MLAs in Jamshedpur as his party’s decision and Congress has nothing to do with it. “Private companies are free to take decisions. Only moral persuasion can be done, but no law should be imposed on them to decide their recruitment process,” he said.
East Singhbhum District Congress President Bijay Khan said, ‘Has the Soren government come to power only after getting tribal votes? During elections, JMM seeks votes from everyone but when it comes to power, it works only for the interest of tribals, which is not fair.
He said, “In Jharkhand, only tribals and indigenous people will get jobs, what will others do? Congress has always stood like a pillar to protect the rights of tribals but the party does not advocate stealing the rights of others.”
BJP Jamshedpur Metropolitan President Gunjan Yadav said that JMM is trying to create division among the people by raising the demand. Feather Tata SteelsIn the recruitment process he said, “Since the establishment of the company here, people from all over the country have settled in Jharkhand and worked for its development. People have lived in harmony and now JMM is trying to sow “insiders”. The outsider “seeds to split them.”
Independent MLA Saryu Rai said that private companies are free and can decide on their recruitment policies. “Tata Steel should be given full freedom to decide who to recruit and no party has the right to interfere in it.”
Rai, a former minister in the Raghubar Das cabinet and who started his political career in Bihar, said that every small or big private company should hire the best candidate according to its merit.
Senior JD(U) leader Sharda Devi also said that jobs in private companies should be open to all and there should be no reservation of any kind.

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