Uddhav Thackeray demand centre lift 50% quota ceiling

The Centre ought to elevate the 50 per cent cap on reservations to make sure that the Maratha quota is restored, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray mentioned on Sunday. Later within the night time, the chief minister mentioned the reservation ceiling concern with leaders of Shiv Sena, Congress, NCP in Parliament just about.

In an announcement, the Chief Minister’s Workplace (CMO) mentioned the Centre ought to transfer a decision stress-free the 50 per cent cap on reservations together with a movement to revive the rights of states to offer reservations to totally different communities.

Earlier, addressing folks of the state through a reside webcast, the chief minister mentioned that with out such leisure, allowing states to organize their listing of OBCs (Different Backward Lessons) and offering reservations won’t assist.

“After I met prime minister Narendra Modi in Delhi (in June), I instructed him that because the Supreme Court docket has quashed the Maratha quota and dominated that states had no proper to offer reservations, the Central authorities ought to take the initiative (to chill out the 50% reservation ceiling). Now that the Centre has given the fitting (to organize OBC lists) to states, it ought to chill out the 50 per cent cap (on reservations).

I hope the prime minister would accomplish that,” he mentioned.

Thackeray mentioned the empirical OBC knowledge and amending the NDRF norms had been the 2 different calls for he raised with the PM.

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Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday night time just about met leaders of Congress, Shiv Sena and NCP in Parliament to apprise them of the state’s perspective. Aside from stress-free the reservation cap, the events must also demand a debate on the difficulty, the assertion mentioned, including the state authorities was pursuing the matter.

State PWD Minister Ashok Chavan, who heads the cupboard sub-committee on the Maratha quota, had written to all MPs from Maharashtra on July 24 to pursue the demand of lifting the ceiling with the Central authorities and in Parliament.

Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Chavan, P Chidambaram, Abhishek Manu Singhvi (all Congress), Shiv Sena MPs Arvind Sawant and Sanjay Raut, NCP MPs Praful Patel and Supriya Sule, Maharashtra advocate common Ashutosh Kumbhkoni and state Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte participated within the assembly, the assertion mentioned.

Sources mentioned in Delhi on Wednesday the Union Cupboard is learnt to have cleared a Structure modification invoice that seeks to provide energy to states and UTs to make their very own OBC lists. The invoice will now be launched in Parliament for passage, they’d mentioned.

The Supreme Court docket had dismissed the Centre’s plea looking for overview of the Could 5 majority verdict which held that the 102nd structure modification took away the states’ powers to declare socially and educationally backward lessons (SEBC) for grant of quota in jobs and admissions.

The Maharashtra authorities had granted the reservation to the Marathas in jobs and schooling underneath the SEBC class.

On Could 5, a five-judge Structure bench of the Supreme Court docket had unanimously put aside the quota for Marathas and refused to refer the 1992 Mandal verdict placing a cap of fifty per cent on reservations to a bigger bench.