Will issue ordinance on SC-ST Act if decision not in favour: Thawar Chand Gehlot

Union Minister for Social Justice Thawar Chand Gehlot has said if the Supreme Court's decision on a Centre's review petition on the SC-ST Act didn't go in the government's favour, it would issue an ordinance.

Speaking at an event in Mumbai, the minister said attempts are being made to create an atmosphere of suspicion against the government that it is doing away with the



reservations or diluting the atrocities act.

Asserting the government had no intention to tamper with the reservations, he said, government never intended to do so in the past, neither it is doing it now, nor will it do in the future. The government has filed a review petition in the apex court against its ruling diluting the SC-ST Act.