Chief Minister and DMK president M.K. Stalin on Friday warned that if the BJP was voted to power again, the benefits of reservation available to all classes, including the BCs, the MBCs, the SCs and the STs, would be lost forever.
Speaking at a public meeting to canvas votes for VCK candidate D. Ravikumar (Villupuram) and the Congress’s M.K. Vishnu Prasad (Cuddalore), he said that the benefits of reservation were realised after much struggle, and they had helped people climb up the social ladder and land respectable jobs.
Mr. Stalin alleged that the OBCs, the SCs and the STs had been denied the full benefit of reservation ever since the BJP came to power. Less than 3% of the secretaries posted at the Centre belonged to the BCs, while there was hardly anyone from the OBCs and the STs in Assistant Professor and higher posts. People should think about this, he said.
