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{{Infobox organization
| image =
| caption = "Get the system right and keep the System right by acting at policy making !!!!
| logo = YFE.jpg
| motto = Say No to Caste Based Reservations
| formation = April 4, 2006
| type = National policy influencing Body
| purpose = Say No to Caste Based policies and caste based Reservations
| name = Youth For Equality
| website = {{URL|https://www.youthforequality.in}}
| logo_size =
| abbreviation = YFE
| founding_location = New Delhi. India
| location = India
}}

'''Youth For Equality''' (YFE) is an Indian organisation against caste-based policies and reservations, i.e. [[affirmative action]]. It was founded by students in a number of Indian universities in 2006. It organises demonstrations and legal challenges against caste-based policies.

== History ==
Youth for Equality was founded on April 4, 2006 by students from [[All India Institutes of Medical Sciences]] (AIIMS), [[Indian Institutes of Technology]] (IIT), [[Jawaharlal Nehru University|Jawarharlal Nehru University]] (JNU), [[Indian Institutes of Management]] (IIM), and other central universities, amidst the protests against the [[The Constitution (93rd Amendment) Act 2005]] that was introduced by the [[First Manmohan Singh ministry]], which had granted a 27% reservation for [[Other Backward Classes]] in all Central Government institutions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1825/18250300.htm|title=A regressive Bill|website=Frontline|access-date=2018-08-10}}</ref> YFE organised massive anti-reservation demonstrations, where students engage in street protests across India.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Students-cry-out-No-reservation-please/articleshow/1513316.cms|title=Students cry out: No reservation please - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=2018-08-10}}</ref><ref name="Capron2012">{{cite web|last=Capron|first=Christopher|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/students-and-doctors-protest-reservationaffirmative-action-system-india-2006-2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814090026/https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/students-and-doctors-protest-reservationaffirmative-action-system-india-2006-2008|url-status=live|archive-date=2020-08-14|access-date=2020-11-21|date=2012-11-25|title=Students and doctors protest reservation/affirmative-action system in India, 2006-2008|work=[[Global Nonviolent Action Database]]|publisher=[[Swarthmore College]]}}</ref>

Later on, YFE took legal action against the Act, claiming that it violated the [[Basic Structure of the Constitution of India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.youthforequality.com/about-us/referral-to-constitutional-bench.aspx|title=Youth For Equality|website=Youth for Equality.com|access-date=2018-08-10}}</ref> In March 2007, the [[Supreme Court of India]] granted an injunction to suspension of OBC reservations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/the-quota-war/the-corporate-voice/youth-for-equality-hails-stay-on-obc-reservation/articleshow/1829794.cms|title=Youth For Equality hails stay on OBC reservation|date=2007-03-29|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2018-08-10|archive-date=2018-08-10|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810141541/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/the-quota-war/the-corporate-voice/youth-for-equality-hails-stay-on-obc-reservation/articleshow/1829794.cms}}</ref> In April 2008, an 11-member constitutional bench of the Supreme Court upheld and reinstated the Act in a 7-4 judgement delivered by [[Chief Justice of India|Chief Justice India]] [[K. G. Balakrishnan]], with Justice [[Dalveer Bhandari]] providing the dissenting opinion. OBC reservations were implemented in all central universities and institutions, but the government was required to exclude the [[creamy layer]] from the OBC (but not SC/ST) reservations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.livelaw.in/sc-upholds-93rd-amendment-constitution-provides-right-education-fundamental-right/|title=SC upholds 93rd amendment to the Constitution which provides for Right to Education as a Fundamental Right [Read the Judgment] {{!}} Live Law|date=2014-05-06|work=Live Law|access-date=2018-08-10|language=en-US}}</ref>

Youth For Equality contested in the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union|JNU Student Union]] elections in 2006<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/After-YFE-scare/articleshow/411697.cms|title=After YFE scare - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref> and 2009 and [[Lok Sabha]] elections in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/Youth-for-Equality-launches-a-new-political-wing/article16639699.ece|title=Youth for Equality launches a new political wing|date=2009-03-19|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-08-10|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

In 2014, Youth For Equality challenged the Maratha reservations instituted by the [[Government of Maharashtra]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/reservation-row-marathas-not-a-backward-community-petitioners-tell-hc-1719133.html|title=Reservation row: Marathas not a backward community, petitioners tell HC|website=Firstpost|access-date=2018-08-10}}</ref>

On 10 January 2019, the group petitioned the Supreme Court against the [[Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill 2019]], which had increased the cap on reservations from 50% to 60%, to accommodate the newly-defined [[Economically Weaker Section]]s, arguing that the law would violate the Supreme Court ruling in ''[[Indra Sawhney & Others v. Union of India]]''.<ref name ="Chowdhury2019">{{cite news|url=https://scroll.in/article/909004/meet-the-group-that-has-challenged-the-10-reservation-for-upper-castes-in-the-supreme-court|work=[[Scroll.in]]|title=Meet the group that has challenged the 10% reservation for upper castes in the Supreme Court|last=Chowdhury|first=Shreya Roy|date=2019-01-11|access-date=2020-11-21|archive-date=2020-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807154837/https://scroll.in/article/909004/meet-the-group-that-has-challenged-the-10-reservation-for-upper-castes-in-the-supreme-court|url-status=live}}</ref> On 6 August 2020, the court decided that a 5-member bench would hear the case.<ref name="SCIObserver2020">{{cite web|url=https://www.scobserver.in/court-case/reservations-for-economically-weaker-sections/ews-plain-english-of-referral-order|title=EWS - Plain English of Referral Order|website=[[Supreme Court Observer]]|date=2020-08-06|publisher=[[Legal Observer Trust]]|access-date=2020-11-21|archive-date=2020-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921154141/https://www.scobserver.in/court-case/reservations-for-economically-weaker-sections/ews-plain-english-of-referral-order|url-status=live}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.youthforequality.com}}

[[Category:Students' unions in India]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 2006]]

Youth For Equality - Revision history

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