We do not agree with the Supreme Court's decision on reservation, differences will arise among governments- Mayawati

Supreme Court On Reservation: BSP supremo Mayawati has expressed disagreement with the Supreme Court's decision regarding reservation. She said that she does not agree with the court's decision to divide the SC caste into sub-castes. Making a new list on reservation will cause many problems. It is not right to divide the sub-castes among SC-ST. The Supreme Court should also have prepared a standard for creamy layer.

The former CM of UP further said that somewhere there is a plan to end reservation with the court's decision. She has questioned that the court has mentioned creamy layer in the decision, but what is its standard? There is no information about which caste will come under this scope. Classification in reservation will mean ending the reservation and giving it to the general category.

'We are against classification in reservation'

Mayawati said that our party does not agree with the Supreme Court's decision and we are against any kind of classification in reservation. Appropriate amendments should be made in the Constitution regarding the SC-ST reservation system and it should be included in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution.

He further said that after the court's decision, there will be a situation of differences between the central and state governments regarding reservation. Governments will work to give reservation to the desired castes. This will create a feeling of dissatisfaction. Because the atrocities have been faced by the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people as a group and this group is the same, it will not be right to create a system of quota within quota in any way.

The court called quota within quota a constitutional right of the states

In a historic decision, the Supreme Court on August 1 said that the states have the constitutional right to make sub-classification (quota within quota) within the Scheduled Castes, which form a socially heterogeneous class, so that reservation can be given for the upliftment of socially and educationally more backward castes.

Supreme Court Justice Pankaj Mithal said that the reservation policy needs to be reconsidered and new methods are needed for the upliftment of the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) people.