After showing door to Margaret Alva, the Congress on Thursday relieved Yogendra Makwana as chairman of its Scheduled Caste department. And the reason cited was “gross indiscipline” for publicly criticizing the party’s functioning.
“The party has taken a serious view of his conduct and consequently the Congress president has relieved him from the chairmanship of the SC department of the AICC with immediate effect,” general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said.
Dr. Makwana, a former Union Minister had been publicly criticising the party’s policies and functioning for quite a long time.
United Nations AIDS agency in a report said that if India is unable to check the steep rise in the number of intravenous drug users, HIV/AIDS infection will spread at alarming rates. There are already 2.5 million people suffering from AIDS in India and if unchecked, the number could easily reach 10 million by 2010.
