Quota bill: 18 lakh UP employees on strike today

Lodging protest against reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in government jobs, UP employees will be on strike.

Zeenews Bureau

Lucknow: Lodging protest against Union Cabinet’s move of clearing reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in government jobs, over 18 lakh employees will hold a state-wide strike on Wednesday.

All the employees of the Uttar Pradesh government, except those in emergency services, will be staging the protest strike.

Shailendra Dubey, president of `Sarvjan Hitai Sanrakshan Samiti` said yesterday, that employees of all the departments under its banner, would stage protest meetings against the move at the district-level and also in the state capital.

However the emergency services would remain unaffected, Dubey added.

Slamming Union Cabinet’s move of clearing the proposal for reservation in promotion, Dubey said that it was an attempt to disturb the basic structure of the constitution and encroach upon the right to equality.

There have been four attempts in the past and this would be the fifth to amend the constitution, and the three crore employees of the country would not tolerate it, Dubey added.

A bill allowing reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in government jobs is slated to be introduced in Rajya Sabha today after the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, yesterday approved the proposal for making provisions for quotas for SC/STs in promotions in government jobs, clearing the deck for introduction of a Constitution Amendment Bill in the ongoing session of Parliament.

With PTI Inputs

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