By IANS
Shimla : The private sector should provide job quotas for weaker sections of society, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said at an election rally here Saturday.
“Her party, the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP), is in favour of privatisation, but the private sector must have the responsibility of reserving jobs on caste and economic criteria and include needy people from the higher castes,” said Mayawati.
“Jobs are rapidly shrinking in the government sector and if the private sector does not provide reservations it would worsen the economic condition of the people from backward castes and the poor people in other castes,” she said.
“The central and the state governments should ensure that jobs are reserved in the private sector.”
The BSP chief earlier held a public rally in the industrial town of Baddi, some 120 km from here.
The second phase of the polling in Himachal Pradesh will take place Dec 19.
The BSP has fielded candidates in all 68 assembly seats and hopes to make a dent in the vote banks of the two major parties in the region: the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).