Activists of the All India Reservation Forum for Other Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes staged a dharna in New Delhi on Friday against the ongoing protests staged by professional college students against the government's proposed move to reserve seats in central educational institutions on the basis of caste.

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The government has recommended to reserve up to 50 percent of seats in premier educational institutions - medical, engineering and management.

Also on Friday, the Supreme Court vacated its interim order providing for 10 per cent reservation to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the all India quota for post-graduate medical courses.

The protests were sparked after Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh said early in April that his ministry will adopt the Mandal Commission model of 27 percent reservation for backward classes in all central government-funded educational institutions.

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