DMK questions Centre’s provision of Economically Weaker Sections reservation in all India quota medical seats

They are refusing to give 50% reservation for OBCs, party tells HC

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Tuesday questioned the authority under which the Centre had provided 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) of society in the undergraduate and postgraduate seats offered by State-run medical colleges to the all India quota (AIQ) every year. Arguing a contempt of court petition, filed against top central bureaucrats, before Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice P.D. Audikesavalu, senior counsel P. Wilson, representing the DMK, said the High Court had last year directed the Centre to implement reservations only for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the AIQ medical seats. When the direction was not complied with and implemented during the present academic year, the party chose to move the present contempt plea this year. Thereafter, the court insisted that the OBC reservation must be implemented forthwith and the Centre decided to provide reservations not only for OBCs but for EWS as well, he pointed out.