Addressing a press conference in Coimbatore, Rathinasabapathy, coordinator of the Federation for the Rights of The Backward Classes, said that if the demand for a caste-wise census in Tamil Nadu is rejected, all backward community organisations will convene a meeting later this month and announce a series of agitational measures.
Coimbatore: The Federation for the Rights of The Backward Classes has urged the state and central governments to come forward to conduct a caste-wise census in Tamil Nadu on the lines of Bihar.
He was speaking to the media in Coimbatore by the Federation for the Rights of the Backward Classes Community.
The federation's coordinator Rathinasabapathy did not speak at the time. Since there has been no caste-wise census for a long time, there has been no reservation for the backward communities in central and state government educational institutions and posts for 40 years.
In 1992, when a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court upheld 27 per cent reservation for backward communities amidst various legal battles, till date, less than 18 per cent of central government jobs have been given government jobs.
In 2019, when the then Home Minister Rajnath Singh's announcement that a caste-wise census would be undertaken was also false, the Supreme Court was told that it had dropped the caste-wise census on behalf of the Central government.
The Bihar government has successfully conducted a caste-wise census to ensure social justice by breaking down the barriers created by the opposition parties and organisations.
Several state governments, including Orissa, have decided to conduct a caste-wise census in their respective states. The only demand of the Federation for the Rights of the Backward Classes and the Federation of Social Justice is that the delay in taking up the caste-wise census and trying to avoid it, which is the first state to carry out social justice, will affect the future of the backward and downtrodden people.
The demand is that the state and central governments should immediately come forward to take up a caste-wise census. If the centre and the state governments ignore these demands, we will convene a meeting of all the non-political backward community organisations later this month to announce a series of agitational measures, he said.
He was speaking to the media in Coimbatore by the Federation for the Rights of the Backward Classes Community.
The federation's coordinator Rathinasabapathy did not speak at the time. Since there has been no caste-wise census for a long time, there has been no reservation for the backward communities in central and state government educational institutions and posts for 40 years.
In 1992, when a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court upheld 27 per cent reservation for backward communities amidst various legal battles, till date, less than 18 per cent of central government jobs have been given government jobs.
In 2019, when the then Home Minister Rajnath Singh's announcement that a caste-wise census would be undertaken was also false, the Supreme Court was told that it had dropped the caste-wise census on behalf of the Central government.
The Bihar government has successfully conducted a caste-wise census to ensure social justice by breaking down the barriers created by the opposition parties and organisations.
Several state governments, including Orissa, have decided to conduct a caste-wise census in their respective states. The only demand of the Federation for the Rights of the Backward Classes and the Federation of Social Justice is that the delay in taking up the caste-wise census and trying to avoid it, which is the first state to carry out social justice, will affect the future of the backward and downtrodden people.
The demand is that the state and central governments should immediately come forward to take up a caste-wise census. If the centre and the state governments ignore these demands, we will convene a meeting of all the non-political backward community organisations later this month to announce a series of agitational measures, he said.