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Disgruntled elements gear up for CM?s visit
MEMBERS OF various organisations are gearing up to register their protest with the chief minister during his scheduled programme here on September 22. UP Bunker Front, Liquor Traders? organisation and Berozgar Muallim Urdu along with the activists of Congress Backward Cell have decided to organise different programmes to express their anger against the government on the day.
MEMBERS OF various organisations are gearing up to register their protest with the chief minister during his scheduled programme here on September 22. UP Bunker Front, Liquor Traders’ organisation and Berozgar Muallim Urdu along with the activists of Congress Backward Cell have decided to organise different programmes to express their anger against the government on the day.
State president of Uttar Pradesh Bunker Front Ashfaq Ahmad Ansari said the Front would handover a seven-point memorandum to the chief minister, demanding revival of all spinning mills and handloom corporations. A meeting of the weavers community was organised at Gorakhnath where the community members said they had been sidelined by the political parties over the last one decade. As a result, their problems had gone unheard and they were struggling hard to earn their livelihood.
Ansari stressed the need of a compact programme to revive the handloom industry which provided max- imum jobs after agriculture.
He said the weavers of Gorakhpur were deprived of subsidised
electricity on technical grounds. Members of the Front Nabiullah Ansari, Ziauddin and Qamruzzama Ansari said scholarships for backward class Muslims should be distributed through the Minorities Welfare department.
It is notable that the State government had issued an order in October 2005 shifting the minorities OBC scholarship from the Minorities Welfare department to Backward Class department where the Muslim OBCs were deprived of the scholarship.
Members of country-made liquor trade organisation Ramnath Yadav, Markandey Yadav, Suresh Singh and others said that illicit liquor trade was flourishing in the district in connivance of the local police, causing huge loss to the genuine and licensed country made liquor shops.
They will hand over a memorandum to the chief minister in this regard.
State president of Berozgar Muallim Degree Holders Association Hesamuddin Siddiqui said the State government was hoodwinking Urdu loving people of the State. While the government had started special Urdu BTC training, they were getting training in Hindi and other languages as it found no Urdy instructor or trainer. He demanded that Muallim degree holders should be appointed as Urdu teachers.
