New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Thursday gave the green signal to the Indian Institutes of Management to carry on with their admission procedure in the General and SC/ST categories as per schedule.
Admissions for the OBC category will have to wait till the Supreme Court takes a decision on the issue. The apex court will decide on the constitutionality of the Centre’s plea for additional 27 per cent OBC quota on May 8.
While the news came as a much-needed relief for thousands of IIM aspirants whose future was hanging in balance, it has also once again brought into focus the sharp differences between the functioning of two of the four “pillars” of Indian democracy – the Judiciary and the Legislature.
The OBC quota issue is the latest in a series of flashpoints between the two pillars.
After the Prime Minister warned the Judiciary not to transgress the boundaries of the Executive, it was the turn of the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee who on Thursday warned of "serious implications" if this trend continued.
Chatterjee hinted the courts were acting like a "super organ" of the State.
He added that the "lines demarcating" different organs of the State were "getting blurred".
Chatterjee said that in a democracy, the executive or the government is accountable to the people and wondered if the judiciary is "accountable to anyone" when it "interferes" with the decisions of the government.
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