Karunanidhi writes to Manmohan Singh

to extend reservation for dalit christian .  The National Commission for SC in its affidavit filed  before the supreme court( which examining extending of  reservation converted SCs) sought separate reservation for converted SC in a separate quota.

     The Dravidian rulers increased the reservation percentage for BCs  many times, out of total reservation  69 percentage 51% earmarked  for backward communities   ,but the percentage of reservation for SCs  is  still remains 18% irrespective of their increase of population. Instead of asking separate reservation for converted SC/STs like National commission .
The DMK Govt wants to dilute the reservation for SC/STs by asking the Central govt to include the  converted SCs to the existing quota without asking for increase in the percentage as per the latest census.  The DMK Govt wants to remove the dalit christian from 27% OBC quota to 18% SC quota .  Good calculation?

The Hindu daily wrongly reports  that Dalit christian accorded BC status by central Govt, as per the central list of OBC the dalit christian given the status of OBC.  Please see the serial No 22 in the list published National commission for OBC website, visit the following link. http://www.ncbc.nic.in/backward-classes/index.html

The Govt of Tamil Nadu (Dravidian Govt ) is accorded SC converted christian   only BC status Not MBC status ( Social justice means  only for BCs  not for SC/STs)

    
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Friday reiterated the State government's request for according the status of Scheduled Castes (SC) to those SCs who have converted to Christianity.

In his letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Chief Minister Mr Karunanidhi sought Dr. Singh's personal intervention for including such people in the list of SCs at the earliest through an Act of Parliament.

Recalling that he had been taking up the matter with the Centre since October 1996, Mr Karunanidhi said no formal order till now had been received from the Union government. He recounted how the law was amended twice to include those professing Buddhism and Sikhism in the list of SCs. The State government felt that members of the castes listed in the Schedule (Scheduled Castes) had suffered social and economic discrimination, irrespective of their religion. His government was committed to extending all concessions, meant for SCs, to members of the SCs who were following other religions. The Chief Minister referred to the discussion that the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, chaired by Dr Singh, had on the subject on Monday. Calling for the deletion of paragraph 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Modification Order, he said this would mean that those castes listed in the Schedule would be regarded as SCs, irrespective of religion. At present Christian converts among scheduled castes are accorded only backward class status.
Source: The Hindu dt 26.02.2011