PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss on Monday met Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the Secretariat to press for the implementation of 10.5% internal reservation for the Vanniyar community within the Most Backward Class quota.
Addressing journalists later, the PMK leader said he had insisted that a law providing 10.5% internal reservation for Vanniyars be introduced in the ongoing Assembly session, and contended that the caste census had nothing to do with the reservation for Vanniyars.
“The CM has said a decision will be taken after holding discussions,” he said. Recalling that a previous Vanniyar reservation law was quashed by the Supreme Court, he said that though the State government later formed a new Backward Class Commission and gave it more than nine months to submit its recommendations, the panel was yet to do so. “This cannot be accepted as it would take just 15 days (to collate data) because the data already exists,” he said.
