J Bhat: I remember Mr. Venugopal standing where you were standing and saying that.

Arora: The constitutional mandate of reservation requires that reservation should be given to those who are not represented adequately in state services. There should be reservation but criteria is complex. Whether EWS include any such yardstick?

Arora: For 15/16, there is a commission to determine the backwardness. For EWS, there is no such commission, no such yardstick. Today the criteria is 8L, I don't know 80-90% of Indians earn that.

Arora: Reservations are not intended to operate in perpetuity but only till there is inadequate representation.