Patna (Bihar) [India]: Targeting the Centre over the reservation, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav said on Wednesday that if the BJP is in favor of the SC/ST reservation, then they should bring an ordinance against the Supreme Court’s order on the creamy layer regarding the reservation.
Tejashwi also mentioned that the BJP means “Badka Jhootha Party”.
“What is the BJP doing? It is scrapping the 65 per cent reservation and 10 per cent EWS. We demanded that it be placed in Schedule 9 but BJP props up its people in court to scrap it. So, we are part of it in the Supreme Court as well. We will fight it out in court as well as on the streets. BJP means ‘Badka Jhootha Party’. Except for lying, spreading confusion, and spreading hatred, it has no other work,” he said.
“Recently, a court order has come on the creamy layer; we are saying that the BJP should bring an ordinance. If they are in favour of SC/ST reservation, then why is there talk of a creamy layer? Reservations were given by Ambedkar Sahib after seeing the discrimination that people faced. Those who are backward should come into the mainstream. BJP is anti-Dalit and anti-reservation,” Tejashwi added.
Notably, the Supreme Court’s earlier ruled that states have the power to sub-classify Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SCs and STs) and said that the authority concerned, while deciding if the class is adequately represented, must calculate adequacy based on effective and not quantitative representation.
The Supreme Court ruled by a majority judgement of 6:1 that sub-classification within the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (SCs and STs) reservation is permissible.
Earlier, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that there is no provision for creamy layer in SCs and STs reservation in the Constitution drafted by BR Ambedkar, and the NDA government is bound to follow that Constitution.
Before this, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, held a detailed discussion on the Supreme Court judgment regarding the sub-categorization of reservations for SCs and STs as outlined in the Constitution.
Launching scathing attacks on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav said that he is unable to run the government.
“Day after day, we read in press releases about incidents of crime in different districts of Bihar. The crime rate is increasing. Ruling party leaders are being killed, common people are being killed, incidents of rape are happening and the government has completely failed.
When we say that the CM is unable to run the government, it is turning out to be completely true,” he said.