Showing posts with label Jats reservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jats reservation. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Jat reservation: Delegation to meet PM Modi today

"We will be meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah tomorrow," the Rural Development Minister told reporters here.

Asked what could be the next step in view of the Apex Court order, he said, "While we respect the court's verdict, but we will explore other options that include filing a review petition..."

Singh, a prominent leader of the BJP from Haryana who also belongs to the Jat community, also said that it is high time that all outstanding issues between Haryana and Punjab, including water, are resolved.

He said BJP government is ruling both at the Centre and in Haryana and is in coalition in Punjab. "Therefore, this is the right time to resolve the issues between both states which would ensure betterment of both states," he said.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said the state government is sensitive towards the interests of Jat community and assured full support and cooperation on the issue of reservation within the framework of law, a Haryana government release said here.

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Supreme Court quashes Centre's decision to include Jats in OBC quota

"We set aside the notification to implement Jats in the Central list of Other Backward Classes (OBC)," a bench of Justice Tarun Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman said.

The bench also found fault with the Centre's decision to overlook the findings of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) stating that Jats do not deserve to be included in the Central list of OBC as they don't form socio-economic backward class.

"Caste, though a prominent factor, cannot be the sole factor of determining the backwardness of a class," the bench said, while referring to the historic judgement rendered by a larger bench on the implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations on OBC reservations.

The bench also said the "possible wrong inclusion of a class in the past cannot be a basis for the further wrong inclusion."