New Delhi: The Centre will take "appropriate steps" to ensure 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the coming academic session, a UP meeting decided on Friday night.
"It was resolved that the government will take all appropriate steps to ensure that the reservation for OBCs to the extent of 27 per cent becomes operational from this academic session," said a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office after a meeting attended by the PM, UPA chief Sonia Gandhi and Left Parties.
The meeting was held after the Supreme Court put a stay on the quota till the government gave it data on who are the OBCs.
The government didn’t explain how will it get around the Supreme Court order and only said it would consult other political parties.
Left parties wanted the quota to be implemented before August. CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury said the meeting authorised the government to move the Supreme Court to get the stay vacated.
The government would file a writ petition to get case referred to a larger Bench. Yechury said the Mandal Commission report was enough and a fresh Census would not be held to find out the number of OBCs in the country.
"The court will be approached to vacate the restriction so that the implementation (of the quota) can begin this academic year," Yechury said.
"There is no point in holding meetings after meetings. What the government should do is to show the political will to challenge the Supreme Court stay on the central law providing reservation for OBCs," party leader G Devarajan told PTI.
Yechury said the government has also been authorised to examine other legislative options in case the Supreme Court declines to vacate the stay.
He also said the issue of excluding creamy layer from the purview of reservation may also come up when the government approaches the court even though the clause was not there in the Constitutional amendment.
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