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Last Updated: August 04, 2024, 18:02 IST
BSP chief Mayawati addressed a press conference about the Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification of SC and ST.(Image: PTI/File)
Former Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati said the BSP does not agree with the Supreme Court verdict because the atrocities faced by the SC and ST communities were equal and as a group
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati said her party, the BSP, does not agree with the Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification of scheduled castes and tribes. She said this is because the atrocities faced by these communities were equal and as a group.
“The sub-classification of people within scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST) has been permitted, our party doesn’t agree with it at all,” Mayawati said while addressing a press conference.
“Because the atrocities faced by the people of SCs and STs have been faced as a group and this group is equal in which it would not be right to do any kind of sub-classification,” she said.
The BSP chief said while this is an important verdict regarding reservation, her party is dissatisfied with it. “A seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court, on August 1, gave an important verdict regarding the reservation of SC and ST. Sub-classification of SC and ST has been recognised in this verdict of the Supreme Court, among other things, with which our party expresses its dissatisfaction,” she said.
She further said in this regard (Devinder Singh vs the State of Punjab), state governments will be able to create new lists of reserved classes in the name of sub-classification that will give rise to new issues. “The Supreme Court, via this verdict, has overturned its 20-year-old verdict given in 2004 by a five-judge bench in the EV Chinnaiah vs State of Andhra Pradesh, which did not allow the classification of the SC/ST. It had also cleared the air around the sub-classification of SC and ST…” she added.
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court held that states are constitutionally empowered to make sub-classifications within the SCs, which form a socially heterogeneous class, for granting reservation to uplift castes that are socially and educationally more backward.
(With PTI inputs)
