After almost one and a half years, the Uttar Pradesh authorities on Wednesday appointed 63-year-old BJP state working committee member Ram Babu Harit because the chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Scheduled Castes and Tribes Commission.
The three-time MLA from Agra mentioned that stopping the misuse of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (SC/ST Act) could be his prime precedence.
“My main focus will be on ensuring that the SC-ST Act is not misused in the state,” Harit informed The Indian Express, including that as chairman of the fee, he wish to promote social concord by giving everybody a chance to current their aspect. Will work for certain. of the story.
When requested about his political profession, Harit mentioned that his 30-year journey in politics started along with his election as a corporator within the Agra Municipal Corporation in 1989. In the early Nineteen Nineties, he grew to become deputy mayor of Agra and was elected thrice. State Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2007. Harit additionally served as Minister of State for Health within the BJP governments of RP Gupta and Rajnath Singh between 1990 and 2002.
Asked how he would deal with the lengthy pending purposes with the SC-ST panel, the BJP chief mentioned his lengthy expertise would turn out to be useful and added that he would give attention to sustaining social concord.
The publish of the chairman of the SC-ST fee was vacant since 2019 when its then chairman and former DGP Brijlal grew to become a Rajya Sabha MP.
Meanwhile, the state authorities additionally appointed Mithlesh Kumar from Shahjahanpur and Ram Naresh Paswan from Sonbhadra the fee’s vice-chairpersons. It additionally appointed 15 members of the panel. They are Sadhvi Geeta Pradhan from Sambhal, Om Prakash Naik from Aligarh, Ramesh Tufani and Ram Singh Valmiki from Lucknow, Kamlesh Pasi and Manoj Sonkar from Varanasi, Seshnath Acharya from Balia, Teeja Ram from Azamgarh, Anita Sidhartha from Jaunpur, Ram Asarey Diwakar from Farrukhabad, Shyam Aheria from Mathura, Shravan Gond and Amresh Chandra Chiro from Sonbhadra, Kishan Lal Sudarshan from Kanpur, and KK Raj from Etawah.
Sources within the authorities mentioned the administration would quickly refill different posts mendacity vacant in numerous commissions.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
