TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: Advocating a common civil code for all Indians, over 125 right-wing Hindu organizations that participated in the six-day long All India Hindu Convention, have vehemently opposed reservations for backward classes and minorities.
The third All India Hindu convention that concluded on Thursday at Ramnathi, Ponda, has resolved that a common civil code giving equal rights to all citizens in the country according to the Supreme Court judgment was a necessity.
“We demand a common civil code for India. We feel that there should not be any reservation for any section of communities as all Indians have equal rights and freedom to enjoy,” HJS national spokesman Ramesh Shinde told reporters.
Shinde said that the HJS along with the Hindu organizations have been against reservations. “Where is the question of supporting such kind of reservations based on caste or religion? Everyone should get equal treatment,” he argued.
In Goa, nearly 41 percent reservation in education and government jobs has been awarded to other backward classes (OBC 27 per cent, schedule tribe 12 percent and schedule caste 2 per cent) apart from another two percent to families of freedom fighters.
“This is nothing but a political move. Political parties try to adopt divide and rule policy to create vote banks for them,” Shinde said, while responding to a question on Maharashtra government’s decision to grant 16 percent reservation for backward Marathas and five percent for Muslims
Meanwhile, the convention which had more than 400 leaders from 125 organizations from 20 states and from Bangladesh and Nepal adopted a resolutions to establish India and Nepal as Hindu nations and to ban cattle slaughter in the country. “It’s not just cow slaughter but we want ban on the cattle slaughter,” HJP National Guide Charudatt Pingle said.
