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JNU is the premier leftist, Nehruvian, and socialist (usually pro-communist, too) university in the entire country. They are the sort of people who will fall hook, line, and sinker for any scheme which the leftists project as "for teh peepul!"
Arjun Singh tried to introduce a quota of 27% for OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in educational institutions, IN ADDITION TO the already existing quota of 23% for the SCs/STs. This action would have left only 30% of seats open on merit.
An organisation named "Youth for Equality", which opposes this quota nonsense, filed a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) against this unconstitutional quota.
A few days back, the Supreme Court of India handed down a stay order, commanding the government and universities across the country to not implement the quota until the trial is over. The next hearing is in August, so for this admission season, the quota WILL NOT BE IMPLEMENTED.
Practically, this is a very big setback for the government's perverse plot to get in the quota, because one of the reasons the court has cited for not allowing it is that the percentage of OBCs was calculated from 1931 census data, which was the last census to enumerate caste as one of the categories.
As the current law bans any further censuses by the government from including caste as a category, no further data can be collected, and therefore, the quota cannot ever be implemented properly. Knowing the government, they will probably try to change the law to allow caste-based censuses, but I have trust that the SC will strike it down, too.
Coming back to the JNU. Arjun Singh went there to speak at a function of the School of Social Studies. From the name, it is quite imaginable how left-biased the field must be. He went expecting a warm reception.
Instead, he received a boycott, and booing. It seems the very last bastion of academic support this nonsense has been infiltrated for good.
Victory is sweet indeed.
Arjun Singh tried to introduce a quota of 27% for OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in educational institutions, IN ADDITION TO the already existing quota of 23% for the SCs/STs. This action would have left only 30% of seats open on merit.
An organisation named "Youth for Equality", which opposes this quota nonsense, filed a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) against this unconstitutional quota.
A few days back, the Supreme Court of India handed down a stay order, commanding the government and universities across the country to not implement the quota until the trial is over. The next hearing is in August, so for this admission season, the quota WILL NOT BE IMPLEMENTED.
Practically, this is a very big setback for the government's perverse plot to get in the quota, because one of the reasons the court has cited for not allowing it is that the percentage of OBCs was calculated from 1931 census data, which was the last census to enumerate caste as one of the categories.
As the current law bans any further censuses by the government from including caste as a category, no further data can be collected, and therefore, the quota cannot ever be implemented properly. Knowing the government, they will probably try to change the law to allow caste-based censuses, but I have trust that the SC will strike it down, too.
Coming back to the JNU. Arjun Singh went there to speak at a function of the School of Social Studies. From the name, it is quite imaginable how left-biased the field must be. He went expecting a warm reception.
Instead, he received a boycott, and booing. It seems the very last bastion of academic support this nonsense has been infiltrated for good.
Victory is sweet indeed.
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