Chennai: DMK president and Leader of Opposition M K Stalin today chaired an ‘all-party’ meeting via video conferencing. According to sources, nine resolutions on ‘important issues’ were passed at the meeting.
The meet was attended by DMK’s alliance party leaders including MDMK general secretary Vaiko, CPI(M) State secretary Balakrishnan, CPI’s Mutharasan, R Eswaran, Jawahirullah and Ravi Pachamuthu among others.
The meeting took place at a time when 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.’