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Paswan: creamy layer should not be kept out

Parliament supreme in policy issues: Digvijay Singh

New Delhi : Lok Janashakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday said the creamy layer should not be excluded from reservation benefits, while Congress leader Digvijay Singh said Parliament was supreme in policy issues.

"Our party has always believed that creamy layer should not be kept out [of the reservation policy]," Mr. Paswan said reacting to the Supreme Court ruling limiting reservation to 50 per cent and exclusion of the creamy layer from the quota policy.

Mr. Paswan said that employees from the SC/ST categories were still treated badly and it was under these circumstances that the need for reservation became imperative.

BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi maintained that the Constitution did not allow reservation to continue for an indefinite period but admitted that no political party had the courage to say that it should not stay for an indefinite period. "There is a provision in the Constitution that it [reservation] should not go on for an indefinite period... a time limit was fixed.

PTI

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