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Union home minister Rajnath Singh said that the new law guaranteeing 10 per cent quota for the poor among the general category was in tune with Modi government’s commitment to ensure development of all sections.
The Constitutional amendment to provide the 10 per cent quota in government jobs and higher education to the economically weaker secions among the general category received assent of President Ram Nath Kovind January 12.
Some sections of the society have opposed this provision saying it has violated the Constitution which doesn’t recognise economic backwardness as the criterion for reservation.
Addressing a public rally in Nagpur on the concluding day of the national convention of BJP’s Scheduled Caste cell, Singh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the new reservation to realise Dalit icon Ambedkar’s dream of the egalitarian society.
“Babasaheb Ambedkar had talked about liberty, equality and fraternity. He enshrined reservation in Constitution to ensure equality and the quota facility was provided for people who were economically and socially backward. Ambedkar’s dream was to ensure equality,” Singh said.
The home minister further said those people who could not get benefits of reservation, and those among them who are economically backward who could contribute in the development of the country, should also get reservation.
“With this objective, the prime minister provided 10 per cent reservation to fulfil the goal of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’,” Singh said.
