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Congress Punjab Capt Amrinder Finds Appropriate Time To Widen Reservation

Feb. 23 Social Cause, Unrest Strikes Comments

[New Delhi]Congress Punjab Capt Amrinder Finds Appropriate Time To Widen Reservation
Capt Amarinder Singh Said Time to widen ambit of reservation
He said The time has come to widen the ambit of reservation and extend it to economically weaker sections, Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh said today amid the agitation for Jat reservation which rocked Haryana and other parts of northern India.
The former Punjab chief minister also sought to make it clear that by supporting the demand for reservation to economically-weaker and disadvantaged sections from the general categories and upper castes he “did not mean abolishing the existing caste-based reservations” and making economic status as the sole criterion for granting quotas.
He said the existing system that grants reservation to members of Scheduled Castes (SCs), Backward Classes (BCs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) has been enshrined in the Constitution and should continue.

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