Click to play videoNew Delhi: There is hope for pro-reservationists. The 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in higher education will be implemented in the current academic session itself.
This was decided at the UPA-Left Coordination committee meeting in Delhi on Friday night. The Supreme Court had issued a stay order on OBC quota earlier this month.
“Reservations will be implemented this year only,” says RSP MP, Abani Roy.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet leaders from all political parties shortly to form a consensus.
The Central Government will also appeal to the Supreme Court to vacate the stay order on reservations. And there will be no caste-based census yet.
The SC has a precedent in the Indira Sahni case. It has okayed reservations in central government jobs minus a census. We don't want any caste census either. The stay must go,” says RHD MP, Raghuvansh Prasad.
And there is no talk of excluding the creamy layer from the benefits of reservation
So as the legislature and the judiciary appear headed for a confrontation, the fate of thousands of students on either side of the quota divide hangs in balance.
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