Goemkarponn Desk
DELHI: On Sunday, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant announced that Union Home Minister Amit Shah had promised to find a solution to the problem of giving Scheduled Tribe (ST) members of the Goa Legislative Assembly reserved seats.
Sawant, who is currently in Delhi, met with Shah and asked him to move quickly to reserve seats for the ST population in the Goa Legislative Assembly.
“Home Minister has assured to resolve the matter,” Sawant stated.
The Chief Minister also disclosed that a last-minute emergency prevented the ST community delegation from attending the meeting.
But he promised that the home minister would see them when they next got together.
The chief minister’s delegation from Goa met with Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjuna Munda on Friday, requesting the creation of a Delimitation Commission in order to reserve Assembly seats for the State’s scheduled tribes.
Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar, Tribal Minister Govind Gaude, and leaders of the ST, including former Minister Prakash Velip, were among the delegation members.
The Goa Legislative Assembly’s ST seats must be determined, according to the CMO, who “submitted a memorandum demanding the Constitution of Delimitation Commission for determining.”
The Chief Minister promised to grant political reservation to the ST community in the 2027 elections during the just concluded Budget Session. According to the 2011 census, he said, STs might be eligible for three or four reserved seats.