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Recently appointed chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Higher Education Regulatory and Monitoring Commission, Justice (retd) V. Eshwaraiah talks about how the creamy-layer principle has been used unjustly to deny OBCs their rightful 27 per cent reservation and how he plans to set that right

On the pretext of earmarking a quota for the poor savarnas, this Constitutional amendment is an attempt to smother the basic spirit of the Constitution and the concept of social justice. It will only benefit the well-off savarnas. What is most painful is that when the Constitution and social justice were under attack, most of the representatives of the Dalitbahujans maintained a stoic silence. These are Justice Eshwaraiah’s observations