Seat Reservation to all the bonafide Sikkimese, including members of our old business community, can only withstand the repercussions of the accelerated demographic transition that is swallowing Sikkim currently: Tseten Tashi Bhutia, Convener, SIBLAC
GANGTOK, April 12: The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee (SIBLAC) today called upon the central leadership over three-point memorandum as, immediate restoration of seat reservation for Nepalese of Sikkimese origin in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly as guaranteed under Article 371 F of the Constitution of India.
Secondly, it reiterated the reamendments to the Constitution (Sikkim) Scheduled Tribe Order 1978 read with the Constitution (Sikkim) Scheduled Tribe Order 2003 and Representation of People (Amendment) Act 1980 in order to rectify the errors as committed by the then leaders running the government at different levels.
SIBLAC also sought for the reservation of Bhutia-Lepchas in the Panchayat and Municipal bodies on the line of Sikkim Legislative Assembly reservations, within the scope of Article 371 F of the Constitution. SIBLAC has off-late been appraising all the concerns over it aiming at protecting the Sikkimese from being marginalised owing to the ever increasing ‘influx’ from outside.
Emphasising immediate restoration of seat reservation to Sikkimese Nepalese in the Assembly, a press note from Tseten Tashi Bhutia, Convener to SIBLAC, reads ‘Seat Reservation to all the bonafide Sikkimese, including members of our old business community, can only withstand the repercussions of the accelerated demographic transition that is swallowing Sikkim currently’.
(sikkim express)
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