The Government of Tamil Nadu enacted a law on February 26 last year providing 10.5% internal quota for the Vanni out of the 20% quota for the most backward classes in education and employment. More than 25 petitions have been filed in the Chennai High Court seeking the repeal of the Act. The petitions were heard by Justices Duraisamy and Muralishankar in the Chennai High Court.
At that time, on the part of the petitioners, this law was passed without conducting a Sativari survey. Of the 20 per cent quota for the most backward class, 7.5 per cent is reserved for the 68 castes, while only 10.5 per cent is reserved for the Vanni, while only 2.5 per cent is reserved for the other backward classes. And it does not count the election for political gain. Is a law passed to keep, therefore, it was requested that this law should be repealed
At the same time, the reservation was made on the basis of the Government of Tamil Nadu’s policy of making population-based reservation available, based on the 1983 census data of the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Welfare Commission, which stated that there were no political factors involved.
Similarly in this case the intervening petitioner P.M.K. Founder Physician S. The Ramadan faction stated that the separate reservation for the Vanni had no effect on the other sections, which was not only the reservation for the Vanni, but also for the seven castes in the Vanniyakula Chhattisgarh section and therefore the demand to repeal the Act should be rejected.
But does the Chennai High Court, which does not accept these arguments, have the power to grant internal reservation to the state government on the basis of caste? Is it possible to provide internal reservation without proper statistics? The explanations given by the government to the questions included were not sufficient and therefore ordered the repeal of the law which had given 10.5 per cent internal reservation to the Vanni.
The BJP officials first met in person and urged the Tamil Nadu government to immediately appeal to the Supreme Court in this matter. The Tamil Nadu government has today appealed to the Supreme Court after consulting Chief Minister Stalin.
In a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government, it said, “The state government has not given new reservation and has not violated the existing 69 per cent reservation. Out of the reservation already given to the most backward sections, only the internal reservation has been given.”
This allocation is not only for the Vanni community but also for 7 sections, which have already been given separate reservation for the similarly backward Muslim section and internal reservation for Arundhati.
According to a 1983 survey conducted by the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Welfare Commission, the allocation was based on the total population. And this internal allocation was made to provide social justice to the most backward sections.
Therefore, this petition should be taken up for hearing expeditiously and the Supreme Court should issue an appropriate order to immediately suspend the judgment of the Chennai High Court (Ex-party Order) without consulting the counter-petitioner, ”the Government of Tamil Nadu said in its appeal.
In this case, its leader GK Mani, on behalf of the Proletarian People’s Party, has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s quashing of 10.5% internal reservation for the Vanni.
Dr. Ramdas, the founder of the Proletarian People’s Party, has also filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the cancellation of 10.5% internal reservation for the Vanni.
