: Madras High Court declares 10.5% reservation law for the Vanniyar community as unconstitutional #IndiaNEWS The Madras High Court on Monday declared a law passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly providing

Madras High Court declares 10.5% reservation law for the Vanniyar community as unconstitutional #IndiaNEWS
The Madras High Court on Monday declared a law passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly providing 10.5% internal reservation to the Vanniyar community as unconstitutional, The Hindu reported.The law earmarked 10.5% quota for the community in government jobs and educational institutions within the 20% reservation for the Most Backward Class category in Tamil Nadu. The law meant that other groups in the category could together avail 9.5% of the seats.The law was passed on February 26 by the previous All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government minutes before the Election Commission announced dates for Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. The decision was seen as a last-minute attempt to sway voters before the Model Code of Conduct came into effect, barring any new policy decisions.In July, the MK Stalin-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government had issued an order implementing the quota, according to The News Minute. On Monday, a two-judge bench of Justices M Duraiswamy and K Murali Shankar of the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court set aside the law while hearing a batch of petitions against it. The petitions argued that the law had been passed with a political motive. They also contended that the quota was disproportionate to the Vanniyar community’s population and had been decided upon without conducting a caste census in...Read more

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