New Delhi, Sep 13 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments on petitions challenging the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment, enacted in 2019 to provide a 10 per cent quota to economically weaker sections (EWS) in government jobs and admissions.

Legal scholar G. Mohan Gopal, representing some petitioners, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice U.U. Lalit and comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S. Ravindra Bhat, Bela M. Trivedi, and J.B. Pardiwala, that the 103rd Amendment is a fraud on the Constitution and the ground reality is that it is dividing the country along caste lines.  Terming the amendment an attack on the constitutional vision of social justice, he said that in his state, Kerala, he is not happy to say that the government issued an order for EWS and the title was ‘caste’ and they were all most privileged castes in the country.