Pro-reservation demonstration held before Raj Bhavan

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BHUBANESWAR, MAY 15 (PTI)

Amidst countrywide protests against reservation for OBCs in elite educational institutions, a pro-reservation demonstration was organised in front of the Raj Bhavan here today.
The demonstration was organised under the banner of Social Justice Movement led by its President Ashok Das.

Former Union Minister and President of the newly-formed Orissa Mukti Morcha Bhajaman Behera, President of the state unit of Samajwadi Party Baishnab Parida, former MP Anchal Das and former MLA Sura Sethi also joined the demonstration.

A five-member delegation led by Ashok Das later submitted a memorandum addressed to Governor Rameswar Thakur which hailed the UPA government's move to provide reservation for OBCs in elite educational institutions.

"It (the reservation) is a right and timely decision and we, the backward class people wholeheartedly stand by this", it said.

The memorandum also urged the Governor to prevail upon the government to make law for reservation in the private sector as employment opportunities were "very few".