Why should dalits vote BJP ?

allahabad: why should the dalit vote for the bjp ? because the bjp gave all that the dalit needed. as many as 11 dalit are cabinet ministers and three others governors in the bjp rule while the previous governments accommodated one or two of them only, maintains union minister of state for labour munni lal.
lal told the tnn here on thursday that what congress could not do in its 44-year rule, bjp did within six months of taking over power in new delhi.it amended the constitution for opening promotional avenues in government services for the dalit.
another dalit leader s d bagla, former chairman up sc commission, who accompanied the central minister, also spoke in the same vein adding that dalits could not grow in isolation. they should join the main stream politics of bjp for their own welfare and be not misled by catchy slogans, he maintained.
lal said that the bjp is the only political party with national presence and image inclined to give better deal to the dalits not only by talks but by performance as well and by going away from the bjp they would be losing a golden opportunity for their welfare.
he referred to ambedkar who by joining the main stream was able to include social justice in the constitution. earlier governments circumvented it while the bjp government did a lot for social justice through its policies and programmes.
lal referred to growth of regional parties and regional leadership at the cost of national leadership. regional political leaders could not become national leaders while the bjp has national leaders. there is a crisis of national leadership which may sway the voters from panchayat to parliament and this was dangerous for national wellbeing, he pointed out.
caste-based politics, he observed, would lead us nowhere. main stream politics is an answer to the regional politics which in the long run might endanger national integrity, he added.
when asked as to why a national wage policy was not being evolved by the centre, lal said that it was on the concurrent list of the states and till states agreed to a central wage policy, it could not be evolved. however, the issue was being taken up with the state governments, he assured.
lal referred to globalisation and liberalisation, saying that the congress which ruled for 44-years at a stretch had opted for socialistic pattern mixed economy. but all of a sudden it advo cated globalisation and liberalisation. the congress could do something only for eight per cent labour force in the organised sector and the rest 92 per cent were left to care for themselves, he said.
under the new scenario there are no government jobs as the gov ernment was downsizing. new jobs have to be created in the farm sector which has a vast potential for employment of 92 per cent workforce. the government was endeavouring to improve the farm sector, he said.
a new look, he said, was being given into as many as 48 acts in the labour laws some of which had become redundant. a mean was being drawn to save the interests of both, the labour and the industry as well. but it would take time, he added.