BSP opposes Supreme Court’s sub-classification ruling in SCs: Mayawati

LUCKNOW: BSP chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Sunday said her party doesn’t agree with the recent Supreme Court’s verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes.

“The sub-classification of people within Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) has been permitted, our party doesn’t agree with it at all,” Mayawati said while addressing a press conference here.

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday held that states are constitutionally empowered to make sub-classifications within the Scheduled Castes, which form a socially heterogeneous class, for granting reservation for the uplift of castes that are socially and educationally more backward.

“Because the atrocities faced by the people of SCs and STs have been faced as a group and this group is equal in which it would not be right to do any kind of sub-classification,” she said.

The former chief minister said, “We have appealed to the honourable Supreme Court to reconsider its decision, otherwise if the reservation facility given by the most revered Baba Saheb to make crores of Dalits and tribals stand on their feet in this country is abolished, it will become very difficult.”