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Chandigarh: A day after the Haryana and Punjab High Court quashed a 2020 Haryana government law providing 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs to locals, Congress on Saturday castigated the BJP-JJP-led state government for not “framing the law wholeheartedly”.
Speaking to the media, Congress leader Deepender Hooda said, “The High Court rejected the provision of giving 75 per cent reservation to the local youth of Haryana in the private sector. It is clear from this that either this provision was not made by the BJP-JJP government wholeheartedly.”
He said that the BJP-JJP alliance was formed on two things — one was the old pension of Rs 5,100, and the second was giving 75 per cent reservation to Haryana youth.
“Now it is clear that neither of these was done… Overall, the alliance was to do corruption in Haryana. Many states give preference to people of their own state. Haryana is a state in which, not even in government jobs, preference is given. The government may go to the Supreme Court. After six-seven months, we will go to the super-Supreme Court, i.e., to the people of the country,” Hooda, who is also a Rajya Sabha MP said.
Earlier in the day, senior Congress leader Manish Tewari hailed the High Court decision saying that it is in keeping with the “spirit of the Constitution” and that the Division bench upheld the essence of Constitutionalism that equality is the rule and reservation an exception.
