Chennai: DMK president and Leader of Opposition in Tamilnadu Assembly, M K Stalin has sought the support of leaders across the country, for the “war to protect social justice and to provide equality of status and opportunity to communities which were discriminated against for centuries”.
He has written a letter in this regard to leaders including Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi, CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI leader D Raja and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy.
In the letter, he said, “This is to highlight the hostile discrimination shown by the Central government towards the OBCs by denying them the lawful reservation in admissions to medical and dental education through the Directorate General of Health Services and Medical Council of India. The Centre has denied reservation to OBCs in the State surrendered seats to the All India quota and in dental courses, despite the presence of regulations enabling the application of State reservation laws for these seats.”
As a party committed to safeguarding the social justice, this is something we cannot sit back and watch. Providing professional education to the historically marginalised communities is essential not only for empowering them, but also for the democratisation of the society and gradual eradication of discrimination and casteism as a whole.
“The Centre cannot be allowed to turn a blind eye when large number of meritorious OBC students are denied seats, and also the reservations for SC/ST students being mismanaged by applying central reservations on the All India quota,” he said.