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Nitish Kumar bats for reservation; says no one on earth can take this away from SC/ST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that no one on earth has the power to take away reservation from the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and backward class people.

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that no one on earth has the power to take away reservation from the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and backward class people. This statement has come as a reaction to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s statement where she had questioned if reservations can bring welfare to the country.

“I want to say it very clearly that Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar drafted the Indian Constitution and implemented it across the country. You people understand it very clear that there are people who say a lot of things about the reservation, do not think about it. No one in the world has the guts to end reservation to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe in our country,” said CM Nitish Kumar at a Dalit and Mahadalit conference in Patna.

“I can assure you that no one can take away the rights that have been provided to the community by the Constitution and other statutory provisions. No one on this earth has enough power to take away this provision. We will always be ready to make whatever sacrifices required to protect the provision of reservation for the disadvantaged classes,” said Mr. Kumar.

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Recently, the Supreme Court suggested that the creamy layer criteria could be applied to reservations meant for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The creamy layer principle, under which the “advanced” among the socially disadvantaged sections are excluded from quota for jobs and admissions, now applies only to other backward classes.

Nitish stressed that people are free to speak their mind, indirectly targeting RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav who keeps tweeting that “Nitish is in the lap of the BJP and RSS who want to end reservation”.

“There are people who say anything. Now they have become experts in plotting differences among people. There is social media today and people from different castes post something and manipulate things to create tension and differences. This is their habit. I am again saying no one can take your rights and we are looking into the matter strongly,” Nitish said.

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