Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government over Supreme Court’s recent verdict on reservation.
Mayawati said that constitutional effort to bring oppressed victims of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) sections into the mainstream was “failing” as the BJP-led Centre had followed in the footsteps of the Congress by neglecting their cause.
She said the Supreme Court in a recent verdict had held that states were not bound to provide reservation in appointments and there was no fundamental right to claim quota in promotions.
Addressing the verdict, Mayawati, in a series of tweets, said, “Because of such a wrong attitude of the Centre, the Supreme Court made the system of reservation in government jobs and promotions inactive/ineffective.”
“The whole society is agitated by the manner in which the court did this. There are constant attacks on the rights of the poor, youth, women, and other oppressed people in the country,” she said.
She urged the Centre to provide a ‘security cover’ for the system of reservation by bringing it in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution.
Her tweet translates to, “In such a situation, I demand the Central government to bring the positive system of reservation in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution and provide it with security cover till crores of people who are suffering from neglect join the mainstream of the country. Reservation has the correct constitutional intent.”