Nov 2019 - Forum for Indigenous Rights - N-E India, based in Assam has filed the complaint with Election Commission against Sucharita for misusing SC Status. In its complaint, it claimed that being a Christian she contested from SC reserved constituency.
Dalit converts to Islam or Christianity will not be eligible for contesting parliamentary or assembly elections from constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), and cannot claim other reservation benefits: law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad @ RS
“Para 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order outlines that... no person who professes a religion different from Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist religion shall be deemed to be a member of a Scheduled Caste.”
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all “central educational institutions, publicly-funded universities ” — this category will naturally include affiliated colleges — “and organisations owned and controlled by the Government of India / State Govt” will now have to get prior approval from the MEA +
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+ if they want to hold online international conferences or seminars on subjects related to “security of State, Border, Northeast states, UT of J&K, Ladakh or any other issues which are clearly/purely related to India’s internal matter/s”.
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