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`Government divided over quota'

Staff Reporter

Pro-quota activists staging a demonstration in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: V Sudershan

NEW DELHI: Activists of the Delhi University Forum of Social Justice and Youth for Social Justice staged a demonstration at Jantar Mantar here on Wednesday protesting against the Union Government's failure to get the Supreme Court stay on reservation for Other Backward Classes in educational institutions vacated.

They charged that the Government's intentions were "not clear" and there was a difference in its words and deeds. "The Government itself seems to be divided on the issue. Otherwise how can one believe that despite leading luminaries like P. Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, R. K. Anand, Abhishek Singhvi, Salman Khursheed and Law Minister H. R. Bhardwaj, it has failed to meet the legal-cum-socio-politico requirements of the Supreme Court?" asked Ratan Lal, convenor of the Delhi University Forum of Social Justice.

The protesters said if caste-based census was proving to be a stumbling block in implementation of reservation, the Government should conduct a survey and give "proportionate reservation" to OBCs.

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