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New Delhi: The Congress is firmly opposed to the Supreme Courts call for the exclusion of creamy layer from the purview of reservation meant for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), party president Mallikarjun Kharge said Saturday, an announcement that came within a day of the Union Cabinet taking a stand against the apex courts judgment...
However, with the BJP saying that it was against applying the principle of creamy layer for SC/STs, the principal opposition party realised it could not afford further dilly-dallying...
Kharge, in a video statement released by the party, said he was surprised by the verdict, while also pointing out that the NDA government ought to have brought a legislation in Parliament to overturn the portion of the Supreme Court judgment that refers to the need to exclude the creamy layer from the ambit of SC/ST reservation...
That the Union Cabinets position against the principle of creamy layer in SC/ST reservation forced the Congress to hasten its call on the matter is evident as last Tuesday it had announced that it will carry out many more rounds of consultations before declaring its stand...
Kharge said while Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the reservation policy will be left untouched, the government should have brought a legislation in Parliament to nullify the creamy layer aspect of the Supreme Court verdict..
