Opposition parties welcome SC's stay on UGC equity regulations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The party pointed out that data compiled by the UGC itself shows that complaints of caste-based discrimination in universities and colleges increased by 118 per cent between 2019 and 2024.
57% : In a post on X, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati said the court's order is appropriate in view of the current situation, as the regulations had led to an atmosphere of social tension.
57% : "Caste and racial discrimination are not abstract concepts or historical relics.
55% : I welcome the Supreme Court's decision to stay the new UGC regulations," Tiwari told reporters here.
55% : In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the recent UGC equity regulations on preventing caste-based discrimination on campuses, saying the framework is "prima-facie vague", can have "very sweeping consequences" and may end up dividing the society with a "dangerous impact".
55% : The court also sought responses by March 19 from the Centre and the UGC on three pleas against the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, on the grounds that caste-based discrimination has strictly been defined as discrimination against members of the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities.
52% : The Supreme Court's stay on the recent UGC equity regulations to prevent caste-based discrimination on campuses was welcomed by opposition parties on Thursday, even as a Congress leader accused the ruling BJP of creating conflicts to divert attention from real issues.
52% : Another Congress leader, Ranjit Ranjan, suggested that the regulations should be sent to a parliamentary panel for scrutiny.
50% : "However, such an atmosphere of social tension would not have arisen in the country, if the UGC had taken all stakeholders into confidence before implementing the new rules and had also provided proper representation to the upper-caste community in investigation committees, in accordance with the principles of natural justice," Mayawati said in her post in Hindi. Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav also welcomed the top court's stay on the regulations.
47% : Protests were held in different parts of the country against the UGC regulations.

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