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Committee takes out pro-quota rally in Bidar

Staff Correspondent

BIDAR: Members of the Pro-Reservation Agitation Committee staged a dharna here on Saturday demanding the implementation of 27 per cent reservation in higher educational institutes from this academic year.

Protestors gathered at the Ambedkar Circle from where they took a procession through the main streets of the city. They shouted slogans in favour of the pro-reservation policy of the Centre. They demanded that the Mandal Commission report be implemented immediately without reconsideration or approval by any other committee or commission.

They said Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, backward classes and minorities amounted to 94 per cent of the country's population. However, the upper castes who constituted less than 6 per cent of the population, were occupying over 60 per cent of seats, they added. They alleged that landowners, upper castes and capitalists were opposing the Centre's move to implement the 27 per cent reservation in higher educational institutes.

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