Kurmis iterate demand

Jamshedpur: Members of various Kurmi organizations met the Union Tribal and Scheduled Caste minister Juel Oraon in Rourkela and demanded tribal status to their community.

They said the Central and state governments were deliberately delaying the fulfillment of the demand since a long time.

They said the Union government should give tribal status to the Kurmis without any further delay.

Harmohan Mahato, one of the delegation members, said the community members had gheraoed the residence of Chief Minister Hemant Soren recently.

He said the Kurmis should be included in the list of tribal communities at once. He said the demand should be fulfilled in the larger interest of the Kurmis.