State Congress President Jitu Patwari alleged that the BJP government spent huge amounts of money worth crores so that the 27 per cent reservation of OBCs should not be implemented in the state.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, senior party leaders, including former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Madhya Pradesh Congress in-charge Harish Chaudhary, MP PCC president Jitu Patwari and AICC OBC Department Chairman Anil JaiHind alleged that the BJP
BJP leader Amit Malviya on Tuesday hailed the Calcutta High Court's decision that granted interim stay on the West Bengal Government's OBC list notification and said it is another blow to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's "politics of appeasement".
Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Thursday strongly criticised the state government for failing to implement the OBC reservation order issued by a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court.
"Since the implementation of Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservations in 2006, there has been a rise in participation from OBC, Dalit, Adivasi, minority, and women students--challenging the status quo. In response, the regime has pushed to ban elections, fearing empowered student leadership
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday pressed for an early implementation of the caste census asking if the report will be available ahead of 2029 parliamentary elections or not.
"Akhilesh Yadav and his family members have been advocates of OBC reservation. But if anybody staunchly opposed the OBC reservation, it was Rajiv Gandhi who gave a lengthy speech that ran for more than two hours in the Lok Sabha. Akhilesh is allied with the same Congress and calls himself si
"If you want to do politics, then you have a platform within the country, there is your party and you are a member of the Parliament. You should keep your point there (Parliament) whatever you want to say. But there is no leader in the world who creates such an atmosphere outside their count
Congress leader and former Union Minister Srikant Jena has backed Congress MP Jairam Ramesh's statement, reaffirming the demand for OBC reservation under Article 15(5) in both government and private educational institutions.
Rabri Devi and RJD leaders staged a protest outside Bihar Vidhan Sabha, demanding 65% reservations for OBCs. They raised slogans against CM Nitish Kumar, calling him "Aarakshan Chor," and sought to include OBCs in the Scheduled Castes list.