An NGO called Youth For Equality and political activist Tehseen Poonawalla have filed petitions arguing that economic status alone cannot be liable for reservation.
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Opposition parties called the Narendra Modi government’s move to provide quota for the poor from the general category as a “political gimmick before this year’s Lok Sabha election”. However, most of them supported the bill in Parliament.
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The Rajya Sabha, on Wednesday night, cleared the 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill, which seeks to provide 10 per cent reservation in jobs and education for the “economically weaker section” from the general category of citizens.
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