New Delhi: Mounting pressure on the OBC reservation issue, DMK today demanded a "fair and just" review of various parameters, including income limit, for defining the OBCs in order to ensure complete utilisation of 27 per cent quota for them.
A delegation of DMK parliamentarians, including Union Ministers led by T R Baalu, met UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and submitted a memorandum in this regard.
"There is an urgent need to review the income limit so that we are able to ensure 100 per cent utilisation of the 27 per cent quota earmarked for them," they said in the memorandum.
The DMK leaders meeting with Gandhi comes close on the heels of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week in which he had said that the income limit prescribed for identifying the OBCs has become outdated in the wake of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.
The delegation urged Gandhi to impress upon the government to take immediate measures for a fair and just review of the various parameters, including the income limit for defining OBCs, in order to find a solution to the issue.
Gandhi told the delegation that a collective decision would be taken in the matter in consultation with all concerned, a release said. Others who joined the delegation were Union Ministers A Raja, S S Palanimanickam, K Venkatapathy, S Ragupathy and C Kuppusami and Tiruchy Siva.
