BJP SC Morcha hails Supreme Court judgement, calls it BJP’s victory
Ambaraya Ashtagi, BJP Scheduled Caste Morcha State Vice-president, addressing presspersons in Kalaburagi on Friday.
| Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI
The BJP Scheduled Caste Morcha State Vice-President Ambaraya Ashtagi has hailed the Supreme Court judgment permitting sub-classification of Scheduled Castes reservations and claimed that it was a victory for the previous BJP government.
Addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Friday, Mr. Ashtagi said that the landmark judgement allows sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes to grant separate quotas for more backward ones within the categories. He termed it as a historic judgement and a victory for the three-decade long struggle for internal reservation of the Scheduled Caste community.
He said that the then BJP government led by Basavaraj Bommai had not only approved internal reservation, but issued a Government Order and recommended it to the Centre, and it was now upheld by the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court comprising seven judges, he added.
“The previous Bommai-led BJP government had implemented the A.J. Sadashiva Commission report and made classification of 15% internal reservation within Scheduled Castes with 6% to SC (Left), 5% to SC (Right), 3% to Bhovi, Banjara, Koracha and Korama castes and 1% to others. It also increased the existing reservation for Scheduled Caste from 15 to 17% through an Ordinance following the recommendations of Justice H.N. Nagamohan Das Commission.
Mr. Ashtagi urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to immediately start the process to implement the Supreme Court’s judgement.
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