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Free cell phones, free Wi-Fi, Amma banking cards and phased prohibition among promises that still remain on paper
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Free cell phones, free Wi-Fi, Amma banking cards and phased prohibition among promises that still remain on paper
AIADMK co-coordinator and Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s promises of six free LPG cylinders annually per household and ₹1,500 a month to homemakers has turned the focus on the ruling party’s 2016 Assembly election manifesto.
The AIADMK government’s performance, in relation to the 2016 manifesto, is a mixed bag.
While it has implemented several promises and has also taken some measures beyond the manifesto, it has not taken action on several others that had captured widespread attention then.
Plea sought to declare 10.5% reservation unconstitutional The Madras High Court on Tuesday refused to stay the operation of the recent State legislation providing 10.5% internal reservation to the Vanniakula Kshatriya community within the 20% quota earmarked for the Most Backward Classes (MBCs) and Denotified Communities (DNCs) in education and public employment. The court, however, issued notice to the State government on the main petition to declare the law as unconstitutional and called for a counter-affidavit in six weeks.
Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said the litigant had not made an overwhelming case for the grant of interim orders, except for claiming that the law had been passed solely with a view of garnering the votes of a particular caste group during the coming Assembly election. The petitioner said the intention was evident from the fact that the law was passed in the Assembly just minutes before the election date was announced
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It suddenly appears that there is a lot of activity quietly happening around caste, more so in the southern states. This statement may be contested by the discerning, who may quite rightly ask, as to when had activity around caste in any part of India ever ceased or abated? True, but let’s look at the activity, gauge the rush and then conjecture what provokes the movement.
In Karnataka, B S Yediyurappa has been put to test by the largest sub-caste among his own Lingayat community. The Panchamasalis held a huge demonstration before the close of February and demanded that they be put under the 2A category of reservation in the Other Backward Classes (OBC) list. A couple of weeks before them, one of the largest OBC communities in the state, the Kurubas, decided that they should intensify their demand to put the community under the Scheduled Tribe (ST) list. Opposition leader Siddaramaiah comes from this community, but he has been wary of this demand. However, the m