Kochi: The Kerala Region Latin Catholic Bishops’ Council (KRLCBC) has called for discussions by the government with Dalit as well as other backward communities in connection with the implementation of reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) among forward communities.
The council, in a statement, expressed several apprehensions regarding the EWS reservation among members of backward communities, including the Latin Catholics and Dalit Christians.
The statement came against the backdrop of the decision of the Kerala government to implement 10 percent reservation in government jobs and education sector for EWS.
“Even as the government is moving rapidly with the procedure to provide reservation for the economically weaker sections in the forward communities, the communities like Scheduled Casts and Scheduled Tribes, Dalit Christians and the other backward communities, including the Latin Catholics who are socially and educationally backward due to historical reasons, have serious concerns regarding the implementation of the same,” said the October 31 press statement.
It added that the forward community members in Kerala are only 4 percent of the total population. “The real poor people among the forward communities see only 10 percent of the total population of the forward communities. As per these calculations, the 10 percent reservation is for the 2.5 percent of the total population. This high magnitude would result in Dalit and other backward communities losing their seats,” the bishops’ council stated.
The council, meanwhile, said that some sections with vested interests are trying to add a communal color to the demands raised by the backward communities. This would affect the communal harmony of the southern Indian state. Hence, the council calls for discussions that would yield results based on justice and social realities, the statement said.
The bishops’ council also said the government should clear the concerns of the backward communities about the present implementation of EWS reservation, which has procedural errors that need rectification.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
I am afraid that Jesus did not say “there is no Jew and gentile now on”. Jesus was a Jew and he had said that he came for chosen people which the Jews are. The verse referred to by the previous commentator, KIRIT MAHIDA, is from Galatians and believed to have been the words of St Paul who was not a disciple of Jew but rather a persecutor. He claimed his authority to preach Jesus’ message following an apparition he said he had encountered. In many ways, he remains the first missionary or evangelist of the Christian faith.
Jesus said there is no jew and gentile now on. Followers of Christ-hence Christianity can in no case directly or indirectly- even in subtle form can accept , approve, or promote caste system/ caste based reservation. It woild be anti-christ stand. Other options of affirmative actions to fight social injustice and economic inequality must be found. Without annihiliation of caste no equality can be gained. Promoting caste based reservations is to pepretuate the caste system of high and low.
That was on 27th July two weeks before the announcement on 14th August. The signatures had been collected by Adv Antony Ambat of the Kerala Latin Catholic Association.
Latin Catholics and Anglo Indians in Kerala have OBC status as per the Mandal Report. I myself as AICU President in 1990 had presented 5 lakh signatures in support to Welfare Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.