Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has opposed limiting reservation to 50 per cent in employment and education and demanded that respective states be allowed to decide on the quantum of quota.
Tamil Nadu, for instance, had a maximum of 69 per cent reservation and it should not be capped at 50 per cent, the Chief Minister said on Tuesday while virtually addressing the second conference of All India Federation for Social Justice, New Delhi. Hence, based on the population of the deserving sections, the states should be allowed to decide on the quantum of quota, the president of the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu said.
He accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of not properly implementing the reservation policy. Power to grant reservation by apportioning it on the basis of population proportionate to the respective states, should rest with the state governments, the Chief Minister argued. “Therefore, it is not correct to say that the reservation should not go beyond 50 per cent. Providing reservation is the right of the states and the power should be devolved so that the respective states can give due reservation to their people,” Stalin said.
