The party unit has also demanded that the State Government take immediate action to scrap two anti-backward class GRs.

The GRs that the party unit is demanding to be scrapped includes one dated March 7, 1996, which needs the tribal community members to prove their credentials prior to 1950 to get caste certificates. Another GR dated June 11, 1998 orders caste certificate verification of all backward class employees with central government enterprises and nationalised bank.

Terming both GRs completely anti-backward class, Vasant Parsheonikar, president of the city unit, said that copies of the GRs would be burnt in front of the statue of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar at Reserve Bank Square on December 6.

Addressing a press conference here, Parsheonikarput forth a demand that the management of Nagpur Co-operative Spinning Mill be taken up by the Maharashtra State Textiles Corporation, which is already running nine textile mills in State including the Empress Mills, Nagpur. He said that it is the only way which can save the 1200 odd employees of the mill from total starvation.

He outrightly rejected the announcement of setting up of a committee to look into the problems of the mill by Ranjit Deshmukh, State Textiles Minister, saying that the committees only serve as a delaying tactics and nothing come out of them.