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CET will go rural weightage way: AIPJD

By Our Staff Correspondent

TUMKUR JUNE 22. Senior leaders of the All-India Progressive Janata Dal (AIPJD), C. Byre Gowda, who is President of its State unit, M.P. Prakash, MLC and former minister, B. Somashekar, the party's Floor Leader in the Legislative Assembly, Shankar Naik and V. Veeranna, former ministers, and H.S. Shivashankar, MLC, have said that CET will go the way rural weightage has gone.

They were participating in a seminar on "Rural grace marks scheme" organised by the party's students' wing, Vidyarthi Dal, here on Saturday.

Besides alerting the people against the Government dithering over the CET issue, they gave a new twist to it by demanding that the scheme be extended to children in slums and those studying in government, corporation, and municipality schools in cities.

Mr. Gowda, who claimed that the scheme was the brainchild of the Janata Dal Government, said the S.M.Krishna Government should pass a resolution in both Houses seeking an amendment to Article 31 (Chapter Nine) of the Constitution, and send it to the Centre.

However, Mr. Prakash said S. Bangarappa, who headed the Congress Government earlier, introduced the scheme.

The H.D. Deve Gowda and the J.H.Patel governments continued the scheme and helped hundreds of candidates from rural areas get government jobs. Insisting that the scheme be extended to children in slums and those studying in schools in cities run by the Government, Mr. Prakash criticised the Supreme Court judgment for ignoring social justice and striking down the appointment of candidates under the scheme.

Mr. Somashekar lambasted the S.M.Krishna Government for "systematically reversing all pro-people schemes of the Ramakrishna Hegde and the J.H.Patel governments." The Krishna Government was set to sacrifice the CET system, he added.

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