New Delhi: Inspired by the popular Gandhigiri ideology, activists of the Mahatma Phule Samata Parishad (MPSP) in Nashik protested by assembling flowers at the district court premises on Wednesday.
They were protesting against the Supreme Court's stay order on the quota in elite educational institutes.
The activists, sporting black-strips on this arms, gathered at Hutatma Memorial in front of the district court building and later went inside the premises and laid flowers there.
SC's Decision The Supreme Court’s decision calling for the stay of 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in elite educational institutions, including IIMs and IITs was received was welcomed with open arms by the anti-quota student community.
The ruling of the SC was pronounced on a bunch of petitions challenging the Government notification to implement the controversial Central Educational Institution (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006.
The Bench of Justices Arijit and Pasayat and L S Panta, who delivered the ruling, stated that Section 6 of the Constitution was not applicable since no data on OBCs has been collected in the last 76 years.
The Bench, reprimanding the Centre, also said that the Centre should stay away from dividing the society on caste basis and should behave in a more responsible way.
(With PTI inputs)
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