Government Should Have Brought Bill To Nullify Supreme Court's 'Creamy Layer' Observation: Mallikarjun Kharge
NDTV
On Friday, the Union Cabinet also held a detailed discussion on the Supreme Court judgment on the sub-categorisation of reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as granted in the Constitution.
Asserting that the idea of denying reservation to SCs and STs on account of the creamy layer concept is "condemnable", Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said the government should have brought legislation in Parliament to nullify the part of the recent Supreme Court judgment that talks about the issue.
Mr Kharge said that while other aspects of the Supreme Court judgment were being deliberated upon by the party, the creamy layer concept that has been advocated should be nullified.
Earlier this month, a seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud ruled in a 6:1 majority judgment that state governments were permitted to sub-classify communities within the SC list based on empirical data.
