Mumbai: Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar will probably be assembly Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (June 8) to talk about varied points like Maratha and OBC reservation, and Cyclone Tauktae aid measures.
The assembly is going down over a month after the Supreme Court squashed a 2018 regulation offering reservation to the Maratha neighborhood in jobs and training in Maharashtra.
The state Home Minister, Dilip Walse Patil, instructed reporters on Monday, “A delegation of Maharashtra government led by CM Uddhav Thackeray and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar will meet Prime Minister Modi in Delhi tomorrow (June 8). They will discuss issues like Maratha reservation, Other backward classes (OBC) reservation and Cyclone Tauktae relief.”
Last month, Uddhav Thackeray wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to take steps to declare the Maratha neighborhood in the state as Socially and Educationally Backward (SEBC) to allow them to declare the reservation in training and public employment not less than to 12 per cent and 13 per cent respectively.
“The Judgement delivered by the Constitution Bench (comprising of five Judges) of the Supreme Court on May 5, 2021, has given me this occasion to write to you with the earnest request that appropriate steps be taken at the earliest to grant reservation to the Maratha community from my State, albeit in accordance with the law, to the minimum extent of 12 per cent in Education and 13 per cent in Public Employment,” the Maharashtra Chief Minister had written.
A state authorities constituted committee, headed by Justice (retd) Dilip Bhosale, studied the SC judgement and really useful submitting a evaluation petition.
The regulation handed by the state legislature on November 30, 2018, gave 16 per cent quota in jobs and training to the neighborhood.
Upholding the regulation, the Bombay High Court lowered the quantum of the quota to 12 per cent in training and 13 per cent in authorities jobs.
The state authorities is of the opinion that the ten per cent EWS quota regulation, enacted by the Centre, additionally breaches the 50 per cent ceiling set by the Supreme Court.
In its editorial on May 31, Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana had mentioned that the battle for the Maratha reservation will probably be fought in Delhi, including “The collision will prove to be decisive. To destabilize the politics of Maharashtra, the opposition will use the issue of the Maratha reservation as a weapon, then they will have to stop it in time.”
Referring to the Supreme Court`s remark, the editorial mentioned that solely the Central authorities has the appropriate to make such regulation concerning the reservation.Â
On May 5 this 12 months, the Supreme Court’s five-judge Constitution Bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, L Nageswara Rao, S Abdul Nazeer, Hemant Gupta and Ravindra Bhat had struck down the reservation in authorities jobs and academic establishments for the Maratha neighborhood introduced in by the Maharashtra authorities in 2018, saying it exceeded the 50 per cent cap imposed earlier.
The Constitution Bench mentioned that folks from the Maratha neighborhood can’t be declared as educationally and socially backward neighborhood to deliver them inside the reserved class.Â
Meanwhile, CM Thackeray can even talk about Cyclone Tauktae, which stands to be the strongest storm to affect Gujarat since 1998, battering elements of the state and left behind a path of destruction alongside the coast.Â
The Cyclone Tauktae affected states, together with Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and the UTs of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, in accordance to the India Meteorological Department.Â
(With PTI/ANI Inputs)
