How strong is the force of politically organised communities may be gauged from the impatience of the Government of India to get the stay on the implementation of 27% quota for OBC in elite educational institutions vacated. It may be remembered that while staying the operation of the impugned legislation, Their Lordships in the Supreme Court had reprimanded the government and directed it first to compile the details etc. of the backwards. All the political parties were united – each struggling for one-upmanship in pleasing the backward communities.The great champions of egalitarian ethos – the communists who are the partners in the government – were also silent in putting forth their abstract philosophy about which they are much vociferous when it comes to the question of the restoration of Aligarh Muslim University’s Minority Character that has been plundered by the judicial process or giving any reservation to Muslims.Our Muslim philosophers who are on the forfront of the arguments that the reservations kill the competitiveness and creativity break their silence only when Muslim reservation issue comes in for discussion.
AMU Minority Character, torn apart through the ruthless judicial scrutiny, is also pending before the Honourable Supreme Court for ‘repair’.The conscience of the Government of India did not prick even once during this period of more than one year to move an ‘expedite application’ so that the ongoing uncertainty and emotional turmoil in the minds of Indian Muslims may be set at rest.Before thinking in terms of rectifying the judicial wrong through Parliamentary measure the government might be thingking of some big movement from Muslims, as it happened on the earlier occasion, so that full political dividends could be
obtained from the gullibility of the community.
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Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani,LL.D.
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SC refuses to lift stay on implementation of 27 per cent quota
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2007Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, August 08, 2007
First Published: 11:12 IST(8/8/2007)
Last Updated: 12:11 IST(8/8/2007)
The Supreme Court on Wedneday refused the Centre’s plea seeking vacation of its interim order staying the implementation of 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite educational institutions.
“We are not going to pass any interim order,” a five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan said. The Bench said it will hear the main petition to examine the Constitutional validity of the Centre Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission)
Act 2006.
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