On August 9, BJP MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha belonging to ST-SC communities met PM Narendra Modi to discuss the Supreme Court docket’s determination in favor of sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
BSP supremo Mayawati appears pleased with this assembly. After this, she has made a requirement. On Twitter, Mayawati wrote that the Honorable Prime Minister had assured the SC ST MPs of BJP who met her as we speak that their calls for not implementing creamy layer in SC ST class and never doing any sub-classification in SC ST reservation will likely be thought-about. That is acceptable, and if it is executed, it’s welcome.
In her subsequent put up, Mayawati wrote, “However, it will have been higher if the Legal professional Common on behalf of the Central Authorities had not argued in favor of making use of creamy layer and sub-classification of SC-ST within the matter of reservation within the debate earlier than the Structure Bench of the Honorable Supreme Court docket, then maybe this determination wouldn’t have come.
BSP supremo once more posted an X inserting her demand and wrote that till the choice of the Supreme Court docket dated 1st August 2024 just isn’t made ineffective by means of constitutional modification. The state authorities can use this determination as a part of its politics and implement sub-classification of SC ST class and creamy layer. Due to this fact, the Structure Modification Invoice must be introduced in this session.
Last week, the Supreme Court docket permitted sub-categorization within the SC ST class quota. Throughout this, the court docket mentioned that new sub-categories could be created inside the SC ST class. Beneath this, separate reservations could be given to the extraordinarily backward lessons.
The Supreme Court docket additionally mentioned that state governments can permit quota inside quota; however, they must make sure that the choice isn’t based on political ambitions, and if it occurs, it may be reviewed.
