Click to play videoNew Delhi: Describing the Supreme Court stay order on reservation for OBCs in elite educational institutions as "retrograde", CPI on Thursday sought the intervention of Parliament for ensuring social justice.
"It is a retrograde judgement. It will not help in the implementation of policies for establishment of social justice and equality. The Parliament has to intervene effectively," PTI quoted CPI National Secretary, D Raja as saying.
Raja said the Government should have intervened when the apex court questioned the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.
“Time has come for Parliament to have an effective say on this. It cannot be left to the judiciary,” he added.
Reacting to the order, CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said, “SC stay order does not challenge the basic concept of OBC reservation. It is UPA policy.”
Meanwhile, BJP flayed the Centre for its handling of the OBC reservation case in the Supreme Court and demanded that the Government take a "comprehensive" view on the policy.
"The apex court decision is the result of the UPA government's abject failure to project its case of social backwardness in the right perspective", party spokesman Prakash Jawadekar said.
He insisted that his party was in support of reservation for OBCs and SCs and STs and said a comprehensive view aimed at their uplift would resolve the issue once and for all.
"The government must, therefore, take a comprehensive view of the reservation policy and accord further reservation to poorer section of such caste and communities that are not covered under the 50 per cent quota", Jawadekar said.
However, All India Congress Committee spokesperson A M Singhvi says that the Court’s order is not against reservation.
“It is not an order against the concept of reservation. But the SC says there needs to be a credible data of OBCs,” Singhvi explains.
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