LUCKNOW: The OBC department of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee has decided to launch an agitation against the State Government for neglecting OBCs in different fields.

This was decided at a two-day meeting of the OBC department which concluded here over the weekend.

The chairman of the OBC department of the All-India Congress Committee, K.C. Lenka, said awareness campaign would also be launched simultaneously. Mr. Lenka said through the campaign, the Congress would inform the OBCs of their Constitutional rights. He told The Hindu that unlike the Tamil Nadu Government, which had allocated Rs. 2,000 crore for unemployed OBC youth, the U.P. Government had not even allocated Rs. 500 crore for the purpose. Uttar Pradesh is ruled by an OBC leader but the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government had done nothing for the OBCs, he added.

Mr. Lenka alleged that though Mr. Yadav claimed himself as the messiah of the OBCs, the fact was that they have been actually mislead by him.

He said formation of the OBC organisational structure from the block to the State level would be completed by August, which would be followed by an OBC panchayat at Lucknow in September. This would be followed by an OBC convention either in October or November. Mr Lenka said the emphasis is on strengthening the structure at the grassroot level. A resolution adopted at the meeting demanded that OBCs should be given adequate representation on party panels.

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