04-Mar-2025 02:49 PM
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Patna, Mar 4 (Reporter) The opposition members created noise in support of the hike in the reservation quota from 50 to 65 percent in addition to the 10 percent reservation of economically backward class and for its inclusion in the Ninth Schedule of the constitution for its legal immunity.
While reading the adjournment notice in the Bihar Assembly during pre-lunch sitting here on Tuesday, Ranvijay Sahu said that the grand alliance government, based on the report of the caste survey had increased the reservation quota for the backwards, extremely backwards, scheduled caste and schedule tribe up to 65 percent in addition to the 10 percent reservation quota for the economically weaker section.
Sahu, who was reading his information with the permission of the Speaker Nand Kishor Yadav who had already turned down the notice, said that the Bill passed by the Bihar legislature in 2023 became an act and the grand alliance government had requested the union government to include it into the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution to make it immune from judicial scrutiny. He said the centre however rejected the demand.
Referring to the case of Tamilnadu, Sahu said that Tamil Nadu was enjoying a similar facility as the law made by the Tamil Nadu government for a hike in reservation quota was included in the 9th schedule of the Indian Constitution by the then Narasimha Rao government to make it immune from judicial scrutiny.
Sahu demanded to include Bihar's reservation quota hike of 75 percent in the Ninth Schedule for its legal immunity.
The opposition members created noise over the issue from their places asking the Treasury benches to get the law made by the Bihar government in 2023 incorporated in the 9th schedule.
The Grand Alliance government of Bihar led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had made a law in November 2023 hiking the reservation quota from 50 to 65 percent in addition to the 10 percent reservation for the economically weaker sections. Kumar had also requested the Centre to include it in the 9th schedule to prevent its judicial scrutiny.
A PIL was filed before the Patna High Court against the state government's decision and the Court had put a stay on it. The state government had moved the Supreme Court against the High Court's ruling...////...