Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court judgement on OBC creamy layer, calling it “a decisive victory for OBC justice after years of struggle.”“I welcome the Supreme Court’s judgement clarifying OBC non-creamy layer determination. The judgement clarifies salary income cannot be equated with income from business or property for the creamy layer, shields genuine OBC aspirants from wrongful exclusion, upholds high court rulings on civil services eligibility, rejects hostile discrimination across employment sectors, and reaffirms reservation’s goal of remedying social backwardness,” Stalin said.Stalin attacked the BJP govt, accusing it of fighting against ‘genuine’ OBC candidates. “The NDA govt defended a position that could have excluded many genuine OBC candidates and introduced the EWS quota, departing from the constitutional basis of reservations. Even today, after three decades of Mandal, many OBC posts remain unfilled in premier institutions and the Union govt,” Stalin said.Claiming that DMK consistently fought for social justice, including securing 27% OBC reservation in the all India quota of medical seats, Stalin urged the BJP govt at the centre “to create supernumerary seats for OBC candidates who cleared the civil services exam but were denied their rightful place, and rectify this injustice in the spirit of constitutional equality.”
