SNDP Yogam to ensure adequate representation for community

By Our Staff Reporter

KOLLAM, JAN. 13.The SNDP Yogam would strive to effect a strategy which would ensure adequate representation for the Ezhava community in the next assembly. In a statement issued here today soon after the Yogam director board meeting, the Yogam general secretary, Mr. Vellappally Natesan, said that the strategy would be to ensure that political parties allocate tickets to members of the Ezhava community in proportion to their population.

He said that in the current Assembly, the Ezhava community had only 27 members while other upper caste communities had double their strength in comparison to their proportionate population strength. The main reason for this is that various political parties have been exploiting the Ezhava community as a vote bank.

In a resolution passed at the meeting, it was pointed out that the move to regularise those who had been appointed on a contract basis in various boards and corporations under the State Government should be effected strictly on the basis of the reservation norms.

The contract system was effected without considering the reservations norms and hence regularising such contract workers would mean denying job opportunities to those candidates who are otherwise eligible under reservation norms.

The director board meeting called upon the State Government to conduct a detailed study into the frequent earth quakes reported from Idukki and Kottayam districts. Adequate precautionary measures should be taken to ensure the safety of the Mullaperiyar Dam.

Appointments to the Devaswom Boards should be made on the basis of reservation so that the Dalits and the backward castes would have adequate representation in these boards. If needed, the Yogam would launch a strong agitation for the purpose.

The meeting also unanimously elected eleven members to the Yogam Council. They are Mr. Mohan Shankar (Kollam), Mr. E.K. Muralidharan (Kochi), Mr. K.G. Surendran (Changanacherry), Mr. V. Ponnan (Cherthala), Mr. V.K. Ashokan (Thrissur), Mr. N.R. Suresh (Mannarakadu), Mr. M.D. Shaji Bonsale (Karthikapally), Mr. Shaji Vetturan (Thiruvananthapuram), Mr. P.R. Sadanandan (Kunnathu Nadu), Mr. K.N. Divakran (Adimali) and Mr. T.S. Sanjeev (Adoor).

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