Dismantling Reservations & Establishing Communal Quotas
“This court has for the first time, in the seven decades of the republic, sanctioned an avowedly exclusionary and discriminatory principle.”
Asang Wankhede is currently engaged with the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal as an Associate Editor. He reads D.Phil in Law at the University of Oxford and holds MPhil in Law (Oxon.) and an LLM in International law (SOAS, London) where he read as a Felix Scholar and was awarded a Distinction. His areas of interest are Constitutional Law, Discrimination Law with a focus on caste discrimination, International Law, Data Protection and Privacy Law and Intellectual Property Rights. Asang has also been actively involved in Dalit student politics to fight institutional caste-based segregation and discrimination in university spaces.
“This court has for the first time, in the seven decades of the republic, sanctioned an avowedly exclusionary and discriminatory principle.”
EWS is class legislation that discriminates existing beneficiaries of reservation policy due to their group membership as disadvantaged classes.
The 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act is discriminatory; the EWS quota is exclusive for the general category, excludes the existing groups.
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