‘People with such mentality should leave the party’, know why Mayawati warned BSP leaders

There is political uproar over the Supreme Court’s order regarding quota within quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Meanwhile, BSP supremo Mayawati has also warned her party leaders and workers on this issue. Mayawati has clearly said that those who support the classification of SC/ST and creamy layer like the Congress, have no place in BSP.

In fact, Mayawati wrote several posts on X on Sunday and warned party leaders and workers. She said that “The issue of classification of SC/ST reservation and creamy layer is also divisive for these classes, whereas BSP is a humanitarian movement to unite these people who have been divided and persecuted on the basis of caste for centuries and create ‘Bahujan Samaj’, with which no compromise is possible. The party is very serious about this issue. The politics of dividing SC and ST, which is being done by the governments of Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu even before the decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, is not right. Especially the attitude of the Congress governments here is highly condemnable in this matter.”

He further said, “Those who, while being in BSP, do not have the missionary thinking of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar by supporting the classification of SC/ST and creamy layer like Congress, have no place in BSP. That is, it is not right to ignore the interest of the rest of the Bahujan Samaj for the benefit of one person. Therefore, if people with such mentality leave the party on their own or are separated, then it will be appropriate in the interest of the BSP party and the movement. Anyway, the divide and rule strategy of the Congress-India alliance will not work under its cover. People should be alert.”

What was the Supreme Court’s decision on quota within quota

The Supreme Court had said in its decision on August 1 that the state government can create sub-categories among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The seven-judge bench said in its decision that this will give more benefit of reservation to the original and needy category. Quota within quota will be on a rational basis. The actions of the states will be subject to judicial review. The Supreme Court also overturned the decision of the five-judge bench in the EV Chinnaiya case in 2004, which said that sub-categories cannot be created among SC/ST tribes.