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Sword of Damocles
Sword of Damocles
The national president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) J.P. Nadda’s faux pas on granting Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the six communities in Assam has put the ruling party on a sticky wicket.
  |  13 Jan 2021 5:10 AM GMT
The national president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) J.P. Nadda's faux pas on granting Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the six communities in Assam has put the ruling party on a sticky wicket. The BJP chief, while sounding the poll bugle for the Assembly polls in Assam erroneously claimed that the six communities - Morans, Mataks, Koch-Rajbongshis, Tai-Ahoms, Chutiya and Adivasis/Tea Tribes -- have been granted the ST status. The hard reality is that the Group of Ministers constituted by the Assam Government to go into the issue has missed several deadlines and is yet to submit its recommendations to the Central government on the rights and privileges of the communities to be included in the expanded list. The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill-2019 tabled by the Central government in the Rajya Sabha seeking to include the six communities in the ST list is yet to be passed by the Parliament. The Central government also promised on the floors of the Parliament that full safeguards will be provided to protect the interests, rights, and privileges of the existing ST communities in the State. The Assam government has been walking a tightrope as various tribal bodies have been cautioning that expansion of the list should not affect the rights and entitlements enjoyed by the existing ST communities. The Assam Assembly in its recent session unanimously passed the amendment Bills paving the way for the State government to constitute the interim Executive Councils for the three new autonomous councils for the Morans, the Mataks and the Koch-Rajbongshis before the Assembly polls. The State government hopes that constitution of these interim Councils will help it buy time for addressing the complexities of deciding the rights and privileges of the new ST Communities. The State government rushed with the amendment Bills as constitution of the elected Executive Councils ahead of the Assembly polls will not be possible.

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