On OBC quota, DMK sends PM a clear message
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On OBC quota, DMK sends PM a clear message: do it now, and no dilution
Express news service
Posted online: Monday, August 07, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST
CHENNAI, AUGUST 6
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tries to evolve a consensus on reservation for OBCs, partner DMK has made clear to him that quota should not be “diluted in any manner”.
“I strongly insist that the UPA government should respect and respond to the people’s mandate by immediately extending reservation to the OBCs at all levels in all institutions under the Government of India without any dilution,” DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said in a letter to the Prime Minister.
Reservation is an emotive issue in Tamil Nadu, with the state enforcing a high 69% in education and employment.
The DMK chief said that OBCs, ever since the 1950s, have been denied reservation in educational institutions, state-run units and the Central administration. “Thus social justice to the OBCs was denied and delayed for more than four decades,” Karunanidhi said.
Maintaining that “we are still making an irrational debate over implementing reservation for OBCs”, he said the Centre should not give in to “unjust” demands of the anti-reservation lobby who make 5-10% of the country’s population.
“They suggest to implement the reservation for OBCs in a phased manner, to apply creamy layer concept and to increase the seats for general category. I am of the firm opinion that if these demands are accepted, it would amount to preferentially empower the empowered at the cost of oppressing the oppressed,” he said.
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On OBC quota, DMK sends PM a clear message: do it now, and no dilution
Express news service
Posted online: Monday, August 07, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST
CHENNAI, AUGUST 6
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tries to evolve a consensus on reservation for OBCs, partner DMK has made clear to him that quota should not be “diluted in any manner”.
“I strongly insist that the UPA government should respect and respond to the people’s mandate by immediately extending reservation to the OBCs at all levels in all institutions under the Government of India without any dilution,” DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said in a letter to the Prime Minister.
Reservation is an emotive issue in Tamil Nadu, with the state enforcing a high 69% in education and employment.
The DMK chief said that OBCs, ever since the 1950s, have been denied reservation in educational institutions, state-run units and the Central administration. “Thus social justice to the OBCs was denied and delayed for more than four decades,” Karunanidhi said.
Maintaining that “we are still making an irrational debate over implementing reservation for OBCs”, he said the Centre should not give in to “unjust” demands of the anti-reservation lobby who make 5-10% of the country’s population.
“They suggest to implement the reservation for OBCs in a phased manner, to apply creamy layer concept and to increase the seats for general category. I am of the firm opinion that if these demands are accepted, it would amount to preferentially empower the empowered at the cost of oppressing the oppressed,” he said.
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