Supreme Court in a major judgement upheld the one hundred and third amendment Act 2019 validating EWS quota for weakest among forward caste with the ruling regime tipping this decision as a success for reaping electoral dividends however what is unclear is the fact of its passage and implementation with the centre totally aimless and clueless about caste census promoting the interests of lower amongst SCs, STs and OBCs leading to bickerings and frictions. At least centre should have acknowledged and appreciated dissenting voices and opinions none of the legislations passed by the executive see the light of parliamentary committees or for that matter a thorough debate and deliberations before the bill is actually ratified and codified as a law. If economic criterion is the basis of enacting this quota for poorest amongst forward castes than why non creamy layers amongst Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Castes are not being duly a lack of clarity and consensus on this is only going to aggravate this matter further furthering social strains and segregation between different sets of classes, groups and communities. A scheme of politics stretching beyond Mandal against a scattered beneficiary oriented a USP of the current dispensation counting on patronage and loyalty as one of major features and traits of governance and policy building exercise doing irreparable harm to the elected constitutional bodies and institutions with a mandate to preserve and protect basic structure of constitution unfortunately to which neither they aren’t adhering nor adopting a total miscarriage of justice in toto
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