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SC/ST quota in Houses must continue: Centre
Hindustan Times
|September 21, 2023
The reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures must continue, the Centre told a Constitution bench of Supreme Court on Wednesday, defending the validity of a 2019 constitutional amendment that extended quotas for the two communities by another 10 years.
TOP COURT TOLD
"We will place materials on record to strengthen the case that reservation can go on," Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before a five-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud. The Centre's emphatic statement in favour of continuing with reservation for SCs and STS came a day after the Narendra Modi government's decision to table a new constitutional amendment bill in the Lok Sabha to reserve "as nearly as may be", one-third of seats for women in Parliament and state legislatures across the country. The proposed amendment also provided that one-third of the total seats reserved for SCs and STs shall be reserved for women of those categories in the Lok Sabha and legislative assemblies.
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