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Chief of Lok Jan Shakti Party (Ram Vilas) and Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Saturday announced that his party will appeal against the decision of the Supreme Court which allowed the sub-classification within the reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. This comes a day after the LJP, a BJP's NDA ally in the centre, posted on social media that it does not favour the verdict of the top court.

Paswan held a press conference on Saturday where he contended that the main reason behind the concept of SC reservation was the 'untouchability' and there was no mention of it anywhere in the Supreme Court verdict. He said that his party would seek a review on the matter.

When asked about his stand on the caste census, a key opposition demand, the LJP supremo said that although he is in favour of it, the statistics should not be made public.

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"The Supreme Court has given a judgment on sub-classification and I don't want to say anything that can be seen as contempt of court, but we certainly have an objection. The Lokshakti Party (Ramvilas) will file a review petition in the Supreme Court. Let me make it clear that when it comes to SCs, the castes were added to the scheduled category with untouchability as the basis. The basis was never financial or educational. All of these castes endured untouchability in some shape or form," Paswan said.

He contended that the concept of reservation within reservation can not be applied to the scheduled castes.

"So the concept of reservation within reservation cannot apply to scheduled castes... creamy layer can never apply to scheduled castes because the basis is untouchability. But untouchability is not even mentioned in the Supreme Court observations. Even today, we get to see Dalit grooms being stopped from getting on a horse. Even educated Scheduled Caste people coming from well-to-do families face untouchability," the LJP (P) leader argued.

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Meanwhile, Lok Jan Shakti took to the X to share its disapproval of the Supreme Court verdict on sub-classification within the SC and ST communities.

"Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) is not in favour of the Supreme Court's decision on reservation in sub-categories for SC-ST categories. The party's founder Padma Bhushan Ram Vilas Paswan ji has also been demanding that as long as there is a practice of untouchability against the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the society, there should not be any provision for reservation in sub-categories and creamy layer for SC-ST categories," the party wrote in Hindi.

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