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16.10.08 .

Fill vacant OBC seats from general category .

seat must r~main vacant, the Supreme Court on 141h October 08 directed all Central educational institutions (CEis).

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This is not said by Youth For Equality but by the Supreme Court of India. Making it clear that not a single .

to fill the vacant seats in Other Backward Classes category from among the general category candidates by October .

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'waiting list' and their wait was never addressed judiciously but by the whim and fancy of the administration. JNU 31. This year's admission process in JNU was messy and unclear. A new category was created in the name of .

filled with able general category students befc,re the end of the month of October 08. No politicking is allowed but has admitted that 29 seats meant for the OBC category ren;ained vacant. Now the court order is clear and it must be .

At this hour it is pertinent how Youth For Equality ~truggled with the Union of India and with all political .

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the implementation of Supreme Court order.· .

parties with steely determination. It may inspire many Ph.D. thesis how YFE stood against all political parties and .

.prevailed as well. .

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13th May 2006, Historic Hunger Strike at the AIIMS Lfwn .

A powerful tragedy unfolded in front of the naked eyes of millions of able young men and women of India, .

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as the old stinking bug called quota again resurfaced with a more monstrous form. The medical fraternity showed .

the world its resilience under the leadership of AHMS and came to the street of Delhi. In New Delhi few meters .

away from the Rashtrapati Bhawan and a stone's throw from the Prime Minister's Office on 9th ot May 2006 ,water .

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cannon was forced onto the medical students with a ~'peed prohibited by the United Nations Human Rights .

Commission and World Health Organization. These poor doctors have no one but their stars to thank for the fact .

that the demonous spout missed their throats and necks or else they would have have had to pay with their lives for .

the folly of legitimately den1onstrating for their rightful demands. In Mumbai, the city's medical students sitting on .

a protest march on the road heading towards the Goven10r's residence, on 12th of May 2006, were beaten black .

.and blue by policemen as if the medical stuaents were dreaded criminals. The clear footage on the electronic media, .

which looked nothing short of the Tiananmen Square brutality, was enough tfor the World's largest Democracy to .

hang its h~ad in shame. The powder-·was on the barr '1. Onl:,wa flick was necessary to conflagrate the struggle .

against the illogical policy of the Government. A leadership was required during the 1nonth of May in 2006 to lead the snuggle. This is when AIIMS in consultation ·with ether medical colleges of Delhi started the snuggle. After a series of face off with the state managed police ,AIIMS students decided to sit on hunger strike on 13th of May and .

then the rest was history. .

27th May 2006 -Huge YFE Rally at the Ram Leela Ground at New Delhi The struggle against the illogical and unscientific OBC reservation policy was on its height in May 2006 Ram Leela ground in New Delhi on 27th of May 08. Th~ mantra of the rally was to show the strength of the youth .

' when the YFE leadership in consultation with persons of eminence of India decided to organize a huge rally at the .

of India to the political class and to stop the politiciar1s from dividing the society on the basis of CASTE and .

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RELIGION. The public support that came out for the rally was extremely heartening and effusive. Nearly 40,000 .

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people from across the country participated in this historic rally. It was from the platform of this rally that sever"al .

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institutions of India announced their decisions to organize hunger strikes in their respective institutes. JNU and llT-. .

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Delhi were prominent among others. .

April-May 2007 -YFE Convi~ced Leading Lawyers c·f India to argue against the OBC Quota .

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Youth For Equality sp.earheaded widespread unrest across the country to oppose the illogical and .

_ demands of Youth For Equality. It was this time that the YFE leadership decided to approach the Supreme Court.

-unscientific OBC reservation policy. The Parliament and Political Parties were strangely-apathetic towards the .

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through various petitions covering all the issues to cha11~nge the political motives of the Parliament. YFE's Judicial .

Activism started just after the historic hunger strike at the AIIMS, New Delhi. YFE representatives met nearly 700 dignitaries which includes members of Mandai Commission (2nd .

Backward Classes Commission) and Kaka Kalelkar C0mmission (1st Backward Classes Commission) to build up .

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contacted by YFE representative to convince them to take our cases at the Supreme Court: YFE representatives are the cases against the OBC reservation policy of the Government. All the senior lawyers of legal profession were .

c?nstantly trac_kin? the de~el?~ments and _operating accordingly. YFE has filed a series of petitions through a t .

different organizations and Individuals covenng all aspects of Reservation at the Supreme Court. .

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On 1st of December 2006 we have filed a petition no. 269/2006 in the name of RDA, AIIMS & RDA, MAMC Vs. .

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Union of India challenging the caste based reserval;on.-Senior Advocate Harish Salve and K.K. Venugopal argued the case. .

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