A gathering of Tamil Nadu legislature events, chaired by Chief Minister M Ok Stalin, resolved to reject the 103rd Constitutional Modification that gives for 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS). The events stated the modification would create caste discrimination among the many poor, and referred to as on the state authorities to file a assessment petition towards the Supreme Court docket verdict that upheld it. The AIADMK, the state’s major opposition celebration, and the BJP boycotted the assembly.
After the assembly, state Increased Training Minister Ok Ponmudy stated the state authorities wouldn’t implement the ten per cent reservation. “So far as Tamil Nadu is worried, we’ll maintain following the 69 per cent quota (the prevailing system of reservation within the state), we won’t implement the EWS reservation. The Supreme Court docket didn’t say that EWS should be utilized by all states. We expect that states ought to be capable to make their very own guidelines about reservations,” he stated.
Talking on the assembly, Stalin stated the thought of an EWS quota had already been rejected within the Nineteen Fifties by Parliament, in addition to then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Regulation Minister B R Ambedkar.
“Don’t assume that we’re coming in the best way of the poor among the many ahead castes. We won’t cease any scheme that helps the poor. However we won’t enable the true values of social justice to be distorted both,” the Tamil Nadu CM stated.
A system of 10 per cent reservation for the poor amongst ahead castes “is opposite to the philosophy of social justice as enshrined in Indian Structure”, a decision handed on the assembly stated. “It’s contradictory to the assorted judgments of the Supreme Court docket of India, and it additionally divides and discriminates towards the poor within the identify of caste,” it stated.
The decision urged the state authorities to register its views strongly and to say the values of social justice and equality by a assessment petition earlier than the Structure Bench of the Supreme Court docket.
“Whereas we assist poverty alleviation by financial improvement programmes to assist the poor and susceptible, we won’t enable the true values of social justice to be distorted. This concerted motion from Tamil Nadu to safeguard the philosophy of social justice will assist us coordinate our efforts for the subsequent step ahead,” the decision stated.
The assembly was attended by the ruling DMK, its allies together with the Congress, the CPI(M), the CPI, the MDMK, and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, in addition to NDA ally PMK.