Govt Should Have Nullified SC's 'creamy Layer' Observation Through Parliament: Kharge

Asserting that the idea of denying reservation to SCs and STs on account of the creamy layer concept is ”condemnable”, the Congress Saturday said the government should have brought a legislation in Parliament to nullify that part of the Supreme Court judgement that talks about the issue.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said while the party was holding deliberations with intellectuals, experts and NGOs on the Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to create sub-categorisation within the SCs and STs and will take a call after detailed discussions, it is opposed to that part which advocates the creamy layer concept.

Earlier this month, a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud ruled in a 6:1 majority judgement that state governments were permitted to sub-classify communities within the SC list based on empirical data.