"JD(U) favours the Bill as the community's socio-economic and political condition has not reached the standard where the incentive cannot be considered for them," Kumar told reporters here.
"All political parties have a right to take their own line and one need not interfere in other's decision," he said to a question on his stand on the SP chief Mulayam Singh's opposition to the Bill.
Kumar said the state government had already implemented quota in promotion for its SC/ST employees.
On the visiting Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik's remarks on Babri Mosque demolition, the chief minister said it was for the central government to reply.
The chief minister, who had recently visited Pakistan on a week-long tour, emphasised on the need for more people-to-people contact between the two countries for resolving various issues.
