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The Supreme Court ruled in favour of sub-categorisation of SCs and STs. A seven-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud delivered the verdict by a majority of 6:1. While six judges of the bench upheld this classification, one opposed it.
The bench set aside the 2004 verdict of a five-judge bench that there would be no sub-categorisation in the SC/ST quota by ruling in favour of sc/st categorisation.
In 2006, the Punjab government passed a law giving first preference to two castes in the SC category in half the seats. The government brought the act after the Punjab and Haryana High Court struck down an earlier law that reserved half of the seats for scheduled castes.
Justice Chandrachud, in his judgment, said sub-castes in scheduled castes and scheduled tribes are not ‘homogeneous class’ (cannot be considered as a single group) and states can classify them on the basis of data such as their demographic statistics and socioeconomic conditions.
Manda Krishna Madiga, founder of MMPS (Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi), said, “We are not aware of the Supreme Court’s verdict. “The 30-year-old movement has been successful. This judgment is a testimony to the fact that the judiciary stands strongly on behalf of the oppressed sections of the society. Thank you to the judges who gave the verdict in favour of SC categorisation. We dedicate this victory to the martyrs and supporters of the movement.”
We would like to thank prime minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah, former vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu, Union minister Kishan Reddy, Bandi Sanjay, Eatala Rajender and others for taking the initiative in taking this process forward.
He said the Chandrababu and Revanth Reddy governments in AP and Telangana should implement the Supreme Court verdict.
“The reservation law is going to take a second step. So far, there have been joint reservations. The communities which have not been able to receive reservations will receive reservation today. No notifications should be issued until the guidelines for classification are issued. Notifications like recruitment should be issued only after the classification go-aheads are received,” he said.