Maya calls for upper caste quota

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New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh's new Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday advocated reservation for the economically weaker sections among the upper castes and religious minorities in government jobs.

"We will ask the Centre to bring in a new law to provide reservation to the poor people among the upper caste and religious minorities in government jobs," Mayawati told her press conference after taking oath as the State's 32nd Chief Minister.

In keeping with her new social engineering she effected before the elections, Mayawati said she was for such reservation for the poor in the interest of their uplift.

"If the Centre fails to bring such a law, then my government will pass a new law in the state for providing reservation to the poor people among the upper castes and the religious minorities," she added.

She sent a strong message to her opponents that the BSP government would not brook communal violence. She also vowed to withdraw security of ‘criminal elements’.

In a clear reference to the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav's government, she announced that all the decisions taken by it since February after the elections were declared have been scrapped and a probe has been ordered into it.

"All investigations into these decisions will be done without any political vendetta," the BSP supremo said but made it clear that no leniency will be shown against the guilty. The Industrial Development Council set up by the previous government will be scrapped and a new policy will be evolved, she said.