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Protest against inclusion of creamy layer of OBC in the Bill

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UNITED WE STAND: People from Pal Beghal Samaj (SC/ST) under the banner of Bharatiya Sarvodaya Party participating in a rally in New Delhi on Sunday . — PHOTO: SANDEEP SAXENA

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Sarvodaya Party organised a rally at Ramlila Grounds here on Sunday to protest against the inclusion of creamy layer of Other Backward Classes (OBC) in the Central Educational Institution (Reservations in Admission) Bill, 2006, that was recently passed by Parliament.

The party hit out at all the major political parties for supporting the inclusion of the creamy layer in the Bill that allows for 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central Government-run educational institutions.

Alleging that the political leaders only favoured the rich of society, the Party's national president Rajaram Pal said: "The creamy layer should have been excluded from the purview of the Bill as only then the deserving people belonging to the OBCs will get the benefits of reservation."

"The idea of bringing a Bill on reservation was to help the poorest of the poor among OBCs, those who have been marginalised by society. But the Bill in its current form will only help the rich among the OBCs."

Mr. Pal said his party would contest the coming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh on its own. However, he said, it was not averse to forging an alliance with "like-minded" parties.

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