OBC quota issue figures in the Union Cabinet meeting

The Supreme Court verdict allowing OBC quota in higher education institutions figured at the meeting of the Union Cabinet today with the contentious creamy layer issue being raised. "The issue was raised but the Cabinet did not discuss it," Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said at the briefing on the Cabinet meeting when asked whether the creamy layer issue came up.

He parried a question on who raised the issue.

Ahead of the Cabinet meeting, HRD Minister Arjun Singh met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and is understood to have briefed him on the apex court verdict on the OBC reservation and the exclusion of creamy layer from its purview.

Arjun Singh said yesterday that the issue of the creamy layer would be addressed by the Cabinet.

Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, whose party PMK is sore over the exclusion of the creamy layer amongst the OBCs from the ambit of reservation, also met the HRD Minister today and congratulated him on the court verdict.

Ramadoss welcomed the Supreme Court ruling upholding 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in higher educational institutions and said it was a victory for social justice which has come after a long wait of 60 years.

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