After the scuffle between the SP and BSP leaders after the bill to allow reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in government jobs was tabled in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State in the PM's Office V Narayanasamy said that he had been expecting some trouble so had not carried any pieces of paper with him. In a similar scuffle during the tabling of the women's reservation bill (which too the SP opposes), a copy of the bill was torn up.