Bharat Bandh Today Live Updates: BAMCEF calls for nationwide strike over demand of caste census of OBCs

Bharat Bandh Today Live Updates: BAMCEF calls for pan-India strike demanding caste-based census of OBCs

25 May , 2022 By : monika singh

The All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF) has called for a Bharat Bandh today, to protest against the Centre’s decision of not conducting a caste-based census for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), according to Neeraj Dhiman, the Saharanpur District President of the Bahujan Mukti Party.

Other than the demand of a caste census for OBCs, the federation is also protesting against the use of EVMs during elections and the issue of reservations for the SC/ST/OBC in private sectors.

Demands put forth by BAMCEF:

According to the national convener of the Bhartiya Yuva Morcha, their demands include:

Stopping use of EVMs in elections

Caste-based census

SC/ST/OBC reservations in the private sector

Law guaranteeing MSP to farmers

Non implementation of NRC/CAA/NPR

Resumption of the old pension scheme

Separate electorates in OBC reservation in Panchayat elections in Odisha and Madhya Pradesh

No displacement of tribal people under the garb of environmental protection

Not making vaccination compulsory.

Protection against labour laws that were secretly made against workers during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Along with BAMCEF, the bandh has also garnered the support of the Bahujan Mukti Party and Bahujan Kranti Morcha.

Extending his support for bandh, BKM convener Waman Meshram claimed that some forces are creating an atmosphere of disturbance to divert the attention of people from the bandh, especially the OBCs so that they they cannot join the movement.