Injustice to Koli and Thakor community in Gujarat, give 20% separate reservation

- Allocate Rs.1000 crore fund to Koli and Thakor Development Corporation, Chintan meeting will be held on 3rd April

Rajkot

While the Patidar community in Gujarat has made efforts to strengthen its organization ahead of the Assembly elections, the people of Koli and Thakor communities, which have a larger population than the Patidar community, have also undertaken an exercise to strengthen unity. A meeting of the leaders of Saurashtra-Gujarat Koli Samaj was held in Rajkot today. It was decided to hold a Chintan meeting in Gandhinagar on April 4.

Leaders who attended the meeting in Rajkot said that the Koli and Thakor community in Gujarat has a population of 72 per cent but due to lack of strong organization and lack of education there is not enough representation in the fields including politics. It was discussed in today's meeting that political representation should be met on the basis of total population of Koli and Thakor community in Gujarat and in the coming days whichever political party is with the society the society will be with it.

Conventions will be held in every district to bring unity in the society. A meditation camp will be held in Gandhinagar on April 6 in which leaders from all over Gujarat will come. In Gujarat, Koli and Thakor Development Corporation is allotted less funds as compared to other corporations. The leaders said that there was a demand for allocating Rs 1,000 crore and allocating 20 per cent reserve in government jobs not with OBCs but separately and allotment of land for hostels.

The meeting was held in the afternoon at a party plot on Morbi Road in Rajkot under the auspices of Koli and Thakor Samaj Ekta Mission-Rr. However, Kunwarji Bawliya, president of the All India Koli Samaj and former cabinet minister, was not present at the meeting and said he had no information about the meeting. Saurashtra - No Koli or Thakor MLAs from Gujarat were present at the meeting. The organizers gave the reason that the meeting did not invite MLAs and MPs so as not to become a political forum.