PMK founder S. Ramadoss on Friday wrote to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, demanding that the law reinstating the 10.5% internal quota for the Vanniyars be passed before the admission to higher education courses started in July.
In his letter, Dr. Ramadoss said the Supreme Court had not raised any question about the census data and said the data on the social and educational backwardness of the Vanniyars could be collated and a law could be passed.
“The Tamil Nadu government has all the data and it can provide the internal reservation by seeking a report from the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Commission. The Supreme Court has said the State government can pass a law and there is no obstacle before it. In the 68 th paragraph of the verdict, the Supreme Court says, ‘We make it clear that the aforesaid observations do not prevent the State, if it so decides, from undertaking suitable exercises for collecting pertinent, contemporaneous data to determine how demands for internal reservation within the Backward Classes can be justly addressed.”
