Chennai:“The Supreme Court ruling that 10 percent reservation will go to the upper caste poor is in direct contradiction to the social justice principle underlying the Constitution,” Dravidar Kazhagam President K. Veeramani said.
In this regard, he issued a statement: “The majority decision of the political bench headed by the retiring Chief Justice U.U. Lalit today (Nov 7) that the reservation of seats for the upper caste poor will go to the 103rd constitutional amendment is contrary to the principle of social justice which is the basis of the constitution. Contradictory.
To escape the 9-judge judgment of the Mandal Committee that it is invalid on these economic grounds, the 103rd Constitutional Amendment itself is anti-infrastructural, a social injustice that pushes out the oppressed hungry and sends the ravenous advanced caste poor inside to feast. There are no statistics or evidence to justify this. It is necessary to file a review petition on this, it is urgent,” he said.
Earlier, in a case against the 10 percent reservation system for the economically backward upper classes, a 5-judge constitutional bench comprising Chief Justice Yu Lalit of the Supreme Court ruled that 10 percent reservation would go to the economically backward upper classes. However, two out of 5 judges have given a different verdict in this case. As 3 out of 5 people said they would go, the law is set to go.