New Delhi: In a huge relief to the Congress government in Rajasthan, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition seeking a stay of the government’s dec-ision to implement 5 per cent quota for Gujjar and four other communities Raika-Rebari, Gadia Luhar, Banjara and Gadaria and this was challenged in the high court.
A Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta told counsel for the appellant that since the appeal was against an interim order “we are not inclined to interfere with it.”
The petitioners in the Rajasthan HC, who are activists, challenged the Rajasthan Backward Cl-asses Bill, 2019 which sought to increase the backward classes' reservation from the present 21 to 26 per cent with a five per cent quota for all communities.
The state justified the quota contending that the it was aimed at addressing the pressing need to uplift certain communities.
