New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted the Narendra Modi-led NDA government to provide reservation in promotion for SC and ST employees as per law until the issue is pending for adjudication.
Earlier the government had told the apex court that it was bound to give promotion to its employees, but after orders passed by various high courts, the government found it helpless to give promotions to its SC/ST employees.
“I am the government and I have to give promotion to my employee,” argued, Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh before the apex court.
Responding to the argument, the SC said the promotion can be proceeded with as per ‘a law’. “We can say that you can go ahead with promotion as per law and we won’t mention what is (the) law,” said, the apex court.
In April, Union minister and BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan, who has emerged as the government’s key spokesperson on Dalit issues, told reporters that the government will move the apex court for the repeal of its directions which, he added, have halted the reservation for these communities in promotion.
His announcement comes close on the heels of the government’s decision to file pleas in the apex court against its two orders which, it has argued, would work against the interests of the SCs and the STs.
