The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday announced a meeting of all legislature parties on November 12 to discuss the next course of action following the Supreme Court upholding the 10 per cent economically weaker section (EWS) quota.

Chief minister M.K. Stalin will chair the meeting.

“This quota system is against social justice and equality and contrary to the social justice policy,” a government release said about the EWS reservation. The chief minister has written to all legislature party leaders on the matter and each party can nominate two representatives for the meeting, it said.

Stalin had on Monday said the Supreme Court verdict on EWS was a setback to the century-long social justice struggle.

Tamil Nadu has 69 per cent quota in education and jobs and a case is currently pending in the apex court against the reservation system.

CPI demand The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Tuesday said the Supreme Court verdict on the 10per cent EWS quota had raised apprehensions and should be referred to a full bench for review.

In a statement, the party said the judgment had brought to the forefront “pertinent questions” about its impact on the reservation for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Classes in the absence of caste census and non-availability of data and criteria to determine the economically weaker sections of forward castes.

“CPI demands that a full bench of Supreme Court review the present judgment,” the party said.