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Sangha takes exception to Chief Minister's response

Special Correspondent

It is demanding filling of backlog vacancies

GULBARGA: The Karnataka State Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Unemployed Engineering Graduates Horata Kriya Sangha on Wednesday took exception to the response of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy to the sangha's demand to fill backlog vacancies in the Public Works Department and also other departments.

Sangha president Udaykumar Kelgikar told presspersons here that he led a delegation to the Chief Minister in Humnabad on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum demanding that backlog vacancies of engineer posts in the Public Works Department and other departments be filled. He alleged that the Chief Minister instead of responding positively to the demand accused unemployed engineering graduates of creating a ruckus wherever he (Chief Minister) went and stated that he was in no way concerned with the issue.

Mr. Kelgikar said the Chief Minister also wanted to know about the contribution of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president M. Mallikarjun Kharge and former Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh in filling backlog vacancies. "You ask Mr. Kharge and Mr. Dharam Singh about backlog vacancies, I am in no way connected with it," he reportedly told the delegation.

Mr. Kelgikar clarified that the sangha was not affiliated to any political party and had organised agitations against Mr. Dharam Singh and Mr. Kharge when the Congress was in power.

Terming the statement of the Chief minister as irresponsible, Mr. Kelgikar said that his response only showed his concern for the development of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. He said that filling backlog vacancies was the constitutional responsibility of the Government and that he could not understand the stand of the Chief Minister.

He said if the Government was incapable of discharging its constitutional responsibility, the Chief Minister should resign owning moral responsibility.

Mr. Kelgikar said that unemployed engineering graduates would stage dharnas in villages of north Karnataka which the Chief Minister visited.

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