'Modi wants to hide the truth about caste census data'

August 10, 2021 13:32

In 2018, when the Narendra Damodardas Modi government introduced Article 342A through the 102nd Constitutional Amendment that empowered the President to specify the socially and educationally backward communities in a state, the Opposition feared that it would lead to state governments losing the power to finalise their own Other Backward Caste lists.

The Supreme Court of India recently quashed the Maharashtra government's decision to grant reservations to the Maratha community, saying as per Article 342A only the Centre was empowered to draw up a central OBC list.

Justice V Eswaraiah is former acting chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh high court, former chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes, president, All India BC Federation and convenor, Social Revolution Alliance.

"Once the caste data is published, every community will get its due share," Justice Eswaraiah tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.

Read the interview here.

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