BHUBANESWAR: The State unit of the BJP Scheduled Tribes Morcha on Sunday demanded resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for the deteriorating law and order situation and increasing activities of the Maoists. “The Chief Minister has lost moral right to continue in office after the abduction of two foreign nationals and an MLA of the ruling BJD,” said a resolution passed at the State Executive meeting of the Morcha here. The Morcha further demanded a special land acquisition Act for scheduled areas of the State. “The tribals are the worst affected in the industrialisation process and the resettlement and rehabilitation policy of the State has failed to address the problems of the affected people,” said another resolution of the Morcha. The Morcha urged the Government to enact a special land acquisition law for the scheduled areas on the basis of the National Rehabilitation Policy, 2007, and Tribal Development Plan. The Morcha further demanded implementation of the provisions of the Panchayat (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, and the Forest Rights Act, 2006, in true spirit to protect the interests of the tribals. Even as 22.21 per cent of the total population of the State are Scheduled Tribes, the State Government has not been able to meet the basic minimum requirements like housing, education, health services and supply of safe drinking water of the people living in scheduled areas, the resolution said. Addressing mediapersons after the meeting, Fagan Singh Kulaste, national president of the BJP Anusuchit Janajati Morcha, made a strong plea for formation of a separate Scheduled Tribes Financial Development Corporation by segregating the SC and ST Development Finance Cooperative Corporation for timely lending to the needy people. Alleging increasing atrocities on STs, Kulaste, who was recently elected to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh, said the Morcha in a separate resolution demanded formation of a separate Scheduled Tribes Commission in the State to deal with the cases relating to the tribals. Alleging large number of vacancies in Government jobs reserved for Scheduled Tribes, the former Union minister said the State Government is not keen on filling up the vacant posts. He urged the Government to fill up all the vacant posts through special drives. BJP State president Jual Oram, national organising secretary of the Morcha Bhagabati Saran Mathur, national vice-president Parsuram Majhi, national secretary Mohan Majhi, former MP Anant Nayak and State secretary Sukeshi Oram addressed the meeting.
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