Will take up demand for removing of fifty% cap on quota throughout monsoon session: Congress

This was performed by the Narasimha Rao authorities in 1994 for safeguarding 69 per cent reservations in Tamil Nadu, he mentioned.

He additionally referred to as for amending the Structure to beat the 50 per cent ceiling for reservations for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, OBCs, and EBCs.

This ceiling has solely been imposed due to varied Supreme Courtroom judgments over the previous six a long time, Ramesh mentioned.

“Article 15(5) allows reservations for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, OBCs, and EBCs in non-public instructional establishments additionally. This has been unimplemented up to now 11 years after the Supreme Courtroom had upheld the Constitutional modification that was launched by Dr. Mannohan Singh’s authorities in 2006,” he mentioned.

Most undoubtedly the Congress will take up these three problems with elementary significance to social justice and empowerment within the monsoon session of Parliament that begins on 21 July 2025, Ramesh mentioned.

His remarks got here forward of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-state go to for 2 days from Friday, a tour that can embrace the launch of a number of improvement initiatives in Bihar and Odisha and his collaborating in a mass yoga programme on the Worldwide Day of Yoga.

Modi shall be in Siwan in Bihar and Bhubaneswar in Odisha on Friday and also will tackle public conferences, an official assertion mentioned.

In Siwan, he’ll inaugurate the brand new Vaishali-Deoria railway line challenge value greater than Rs 400 crore and flag off a brand new practice service on the route.