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Row over quota: Govt. to move SC, BJP blames it of fooling minorities

Tuesday May 29, 2012 05:54:00 PM, ummid.com & Agencies

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New Delhi: Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slammed the Congress led-central government for "fooling" minorities in the name of reservations, the central government Tuesday said it will move the Supreme Court against the decision of the Andhra Pradesh High Court quashing the sub-quota for the minorities.

 

Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters here that the government will move the apex court as early as possible after consulting its law officers.

He said the government would "go to Supreme Court by way of SLP (special leave petition) against the pronouncement of Andhra Pradesh High Court".
 

"Politically motivated"

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on its part slammed the Congress led-central government for "fooling" minorities in the name of reservations.

BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters at a party briefing here that it was always known that religion-based reservation cannot be sustainable.

"Government announced the sub-quota for OBC Muslims just before the Uttar Pradesh elections. It was clearly politically motivated," Sitharaman said.

"Every one knows that reservation on the basis of religion cannot be sustainable. The government is misleading the nation, specially the minorities," she said.

In a setback for the United Progressive Alliance central government, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday quashed the 4.5 percent sub-quota for the minorities carved out of the 27 percent reservation for other backward classes in jobs.

 

A division bench of Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar set aside the office memorandum (OM) issued last December by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to provide the sub-quota to minorities. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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