Cong dharna on May 26 to demand Sarna Code
Ranchi: The state unit of the
Congress party
will stage a daylong dharna outside Raj Bhavan on May 26 to press for
Sarna Code
, it announced on Thursday.
K Raju, the party's in-charge for
Jharkhand
affairs, along with state party president Keshav Mahto Kamlesh, said Sarna code will give the
tribal communities
of Jharkhand a separate religious identity.
"The Union govt must include a column for the Sarna religion in the upcoming census. We will continue to fight for this until the Sarna code is granted," Raju said while addressing the media here.
Ahead of the proposed nationwide
caste census
, the Grand Old party has been demanding the Narendra Modi govt at the Centre to include a separate column for Sarna code and is accusing it of deliberately ignoring the long-standing demands of the tribals.
Kamlesh mentioned that on November 11, 2020, the coalition govt led by Hemant Soren had convened a special session and passed a proposal for the Sarna code, which was sent to the central govt, but no action has been taken yet.
"In the upcoming census, one more column has been reduced. Previously there were seven columns, now it has been reduced to six. Every religion has its own code, so the tribals should also have theirs too," he said.
Congress legislative party leader Pradeep Yadav on the other hand said that Modi govt has buckled under the press put by Congress and finally decided to conduct a caste-based census.
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