Patna, August 4: Expressing disagreement with the Supreme Court's observation on subclassification of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Sunday said that the Lok Jandhakti Party (Ram Vilas) will file a review peition against the ruling.
Dalit people in various spheres of life still face untouchability. The basis of giving reservation to Scheduled Caste is 'untouchability,' so there is no point of creamy layer in it, said Paswan.
"We disagree with the observation of the Supreme Court and we have registered this disagreement prominently. We are clear about this that the base of the Scheduled Caste is untouchability. It does not have an educational or economic basis. In such a situation, there can be no provision of creamy layer in it. Reservation within the reservation is not correct, because even today the example of a Dalit youth is given who is prevented from riding a mare," Chirag Paswan told reporters.
"There are many such big names, who are on high posts, but even after they go to the temple, the temple is washed with Ganga water, so even today discrimination takes place based on untouchability... We, LJP (Ram Vilas) are also going to file a review petition in the Supreme Court regarding this matter," he added.
The Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling on Thursday, ruled that states have the power to sub-classify SCs and STs and said that the authority concerned, while deciding if the class is adequately represented, must calculate adequacy based on effective and not quantitative representation.
