New Delhi, Jan. 18 -- The Principal Opposition Party in Tamil Nadu, the DMK, on Friday moved the Madras High Court challenging the Centre's recent Constitutional Amendment enabling 10% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions for economically weaker sections of the society. The Constitution (One hundred and Third Amendment) Act, 2019, got Presidential assent on January 12 this year.
The DMK bases its premise of objection to the move by the Centre on the assertion that reservation was thought as a method for advancement of communities and not mere economic criteria should not pass muster. In his petition, organisational secretary RS Bharathi, said: "It is clear that the concept of reservation itself is not with reference ...