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Allahabad HC asks UP govt to upload OBC panel report on website

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Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to upload the OBC Commission’s report on OBC reservation in urban local bodies’ polls on the state Urban Development Department’s website within four days.
The state government had constituted the Uttar Pradesh Backward Classes Commission to study the representation of OBCs in the urban local bodies.
The responsibility of the Commission was to collect data on the political backwardness of the OBCs.

A division bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manish Kumar passed the order on a writ petition filed by Vikas Agarwal.
Agarwal had challenged the state government’s draft notification issued on March 30, 2023, regarding reservation of Nighasan Nagar Panchayat in the Lakhimpur Kheri district.
In his writ, the petitioner had submitted before the high court that the Commission’s report was not in the public domain, making it impossible for him to file an objection.
“As regards other relief made in this petition, we see no reason to interfere at this stage for the reason that the petitioner has already been informed that the ‘Agarwal’ caste does not fall in the OBC category,” the court said.
“Now, when the petitioner is aware that the seat pertaining to the Nagar Panchayat Nighasan has been reserved for the OBC category and the petitioner does not belong to the same, other relief can be claimed at the appropriate stage as and when the need arises,” the court added.

The Supreme Court on March 27 permitted the State Election Commission to issue notifications to roll out the election process for local bodies in Uttar Pradesh within two days.
Thereafter, a draft notification on reservation in the urban local bodies’ polls was issued on March 30 and the government invited objections by April 6.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 7, 2023
BJP playing OBC card to hide failure, claims Congress

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New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday accused the Centre of playing the “OBC card” to hide its failures and demanded from it the formation of a separate department, reservation, for other backward classes.
The party’s OBC department head Ajay Singh Yadav told reporters that the central government should release the caste data from the 2011 census and increase the existing limit of ‘creamy layer’ from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 12 lakh per annum.
Yadav also said that the increased popularity of Rahul Gandhi after the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has struck fear in the BJP.

“It was decided in the Congress convention held in Raipur that the Congress will pressure the government to come out with a caste-based census… If our government is formed in 2024, we will conduct a caste-based census,” he said.
Yadav said that a separate department should be made for OBC so that the OBC classes can get full benefits of the schemes.
He demanded that SC, ST, OBC and minority women get separate representation in the proposed 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha.
Congress leader Subhashini Yadav alleged that the Modi government is playing the “OBC card” due to its “failures” such as demonetisation, GST, ‘black farm laws’, Adani case, Chinese incursions, and the success of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and is instead accusing Rahul Gandhi of insulting OBCs.
“It is an insult to our entire society to describe Lalit Modi and Nirav Modi as OBCs,” she said.

Subhashini, the daughter of socialist leader and former Union Minister late Sharad Yadav, also accused the BJP of being double-faced on the OBC issue.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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April 4, 2023
Nadda to chair meeting of BJP’s OBC MPs

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New Delhi: BJP National President J.P. Nadda will chair a meeting of all the OBC MPs of the party at party headquarters in the national capital on Wednesday.
According to a source, Nadda will meet all the OBC MPs at the party office at around 4 p.m. on Wednesday. The focus of the meeting will be the upcoming state elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
“Party president will review the ongoing outreach programmes for the OBC community. He will also discuss the party’s strategy to win the hearts of the community… There are many policies and programmes of the Modi government for the benefit of OBCs, party will highlight them during the outreach campaign,” he added.
The source further said: “Most importantly, Rahul Gandhi’s Modi surname remark issue will be discussed thoroughly in the meeting.”
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March 29, 2023
Nadda to chair meeting of BJP’s OBC MPs

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New Delhi: BJP National President J.P. Nadda will chair a meeting of all the OBC MPs of the party at party headquarters in the national capital on Wednesday.
According to a source, Nadda will meet all the OBC MPs at the party office at around 4 p.m. on Wednesday. The focus of the meeting will be the upcoming state elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
“Party president will review the ongoing outreach programmes for the OBC community. He will also discuss the party’s strategy to win the hearts of the community… There are many policies and programmes of the Modi government for the benefit of OBCs, party will highlight them during the outreach campaign,” he added.
The source further said: “Most importantly, Rahul Gandhi’s Modi surname remark issue will be discussed thoroughly in the meeting.”
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 29, 2023
Modi surname row: BJP to seek Rahul’s apology during OBC outreach programme

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New Delhi: The BJP has decided that the party, during its new outreach programme at village chaupals across the country, will seek an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for “insulting OBCs”.
BJP OBC morcha chief K. Laxman said on Tuesday that the party will seek an apology in every village chaupal “for the insult” inflicted by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi through his comments. This will be done during the “Gaon Gaon Chalo Ghar Ghar Chalo” campaign of the party.
He said: “Party will reach one crore OBC households in one lakh villages during the campaign, which will start on April 6 and end on April 14, the birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar. We will also focus on popularising the Modi government’s OBC-friendly schemes and policies during the campaign.”
“Our workers in every village will compare and explain how Prime Minister Modi worked for the development of the OBC community in nine years, while the Congress only cheated OBCs during 60 years of its rule,” Laxman asserted.
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March 29, 2023
CM Yogi welcomes SC order on holding UP local body polls with OBC quota

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court allowing the State Election Commission to issue a notification regarding the urban local body polls in the state.
In a tweet in Hindi, Adityanath said, “Accepting the report of the OBC Commission by the Honourable Supreme Court, and the orders to conduct the urban local body elections is welcome. The UP government is committed to conduct the urban local body elections in a time-bound manner, while following the rules of reservation in a lawful manner.”
The Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for holding the urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh as it allowed the State Election Commission to issue a notification in this regard in two days with an OBC quota in terms of a report of the Uttar Pradesh Backward Classes Commission.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala said, “This court, in an order dated January 4, 2023, noted that in view of the decisions of this court, the government of Uttar Pradesh issued a notification for setting up the Uttar Pradesh Backward Classes Commission in December 2022. Though the tenure of the commission was six months, it was to complete its task by March 31, 2023.”
It further said, “The solicitor general informs that the report has been submitted on March 9, 2023 to the cabinet. The process of notifying the local body elections is going on and will be done in two days. The plea is disposed of. The direction in this order is not to be used as precedent.”
On January 4, the top court stayed an Allahabad High Court order directing the holding of the urban local body polls without any reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
It had also ordered that the panel appointed by the state government to decide on issues related to the grant of the OBC quota for the local body polls will have to conclude its exercise within three months (by March 31), instead of six months as stipulated earlier.
Earlier, the state government had moved the apex court with its appeal against a December 27, 2022 order of the high court, saying the latter cannot quash the draft notification issued on December 5 last year, which provided for reservation of seats in the urban civic body polls for the OBCs, apart from those for the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and women.

The appeal said the OBCs are a constitutionally-protected section and the high court erred in quashing the draft notification. After the high court’s order, the Uttar Pradesh government appointed a five-member commission for going into the entire gamut of issues for providing reservation to the OBCs in the urban local body polls.
The panel was headed by Justice (retired) Ram Avtar Singh. The four other members of the panel were retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers Chob Singh Verma and Mahendra Kumar, and former legal advisors to the state government Santosh Kumar Viskarma and Brajesh Kumar Soni.
The Lucknow bench of the high court had ordered that the state government notify the polls “immediately” as the term of several municipalities was going to expire by January 31, while annulling the December 5, 2022 draft notification. The high court had directed the State Election Commission to hold the elections by January 31, after transferring the OBC seats in the draft notification to the general category.
The high court’s order had come on pleas challenging the preparation of the OBC reservation draft without following the “triple test” formula prescribed by the Supreme Court.
The triple test requires setting up a commission to hold a “rigorous empirical inquiry” into the nature of the “backwardness” in the context of the local bodies, specifying the proportion of reservation based on the commission’s recommendations and ensuring that it does not exceed the overall 50-per cent quota limit.
The high court had held that the triple test condition formulated by the Supreme Court 11 years ago was mandatory.
“Until the triple test is completed in all respects by the state government, no reservation for a backward class of citizens shall be provided,” the order had said.
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March 28, 2023
‘What bigger message than OBC being made Rajasthan CM thrice’: Gehlot slams BJP

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New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Sunday slammed the BJP over its charge that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs with his remark in 2019, and said his party has done a lot for backward classes which include making an OBC leader like him CM thrice.
Gandhi was on Thursday sentenced to two years in jail by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case over his “why all thieves have Modi surname” remark.
Several BJP leaders, including party chief J P Nadda, have accused Gandhi of insulting Other Backward Classes (OBCs) through his remark.
Addressing a gathering at the daylong “Sankalp Satyagraha” of the Congress at the Rajghat, Gehlot said Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted an “experiment” in Gujarat polls in 2017 by saying that a Congress leader abused him about his caste.
And in a repeat of that, the BJP is claiming again before elections that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs, Gehlot said
“In 2017, when the BJP was losing the Gujarat elections, Modi ji played the OBC card against the Congress there. The BJP today again wants to run a campaign to mislead the OBCs,” he alleged.
Are fugitives like Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi OBCs, he asked.
“You are protecting fugitives such as Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi, and then saying Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs,” he said.

Gehlot said can anyone forget what the Congress has done for OBCs and SCs and STs.
“I have been made CM for the third time by Sonia ji, Rahul ji. I am an OBC. There is only one member of OBC Mali community (in the assembly) and that is me,” he said.
Gehlot said what “bigger message” could be for the OBCs there than him being made chief minister again and again.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is also comes from the OBC community, he pointed out.
Elections are coming and that is why they are raising this bogey of OBC insult, he alleged. “It is baseless.”
He said the sacrifices of the Gandhi family are before everyone and Rahul Gandhi is constantly raising the issue of unemployment and high prices.
“They could not answer on allegations raised in Parliament by Rahul Gandhi. I have never seen before that allegations are raised but instead of answering, the prime minister has taken a vow of silence,” Gehlot said.
The BJP raised allegations against Gandhi for his remarks abroad, when he said what he had been saying in the country, he said.
It is the PM who should answer and apologise, Gehlot said.
“Rahul Gandhi has emerged as the voice of the country. We will keep fighting to ensure that democracy is kept alive in the country,” he said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 26, 2023
Odisha: OBC survey across the state from May 1

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Bhubaneswar: The much-awaited survey of the other backward classes (OBCs) across Odisha will commence on May 1 and continue till May 27, an official notification said on Thursday.
The social and educational conditions of 208 OBC communities enlisted by the state government will be collected during the survey, which will be followed by a special drive to ensure that none were left out across the state, an official said.
Odisha is the second state in the country after Bihar to hold the OBC survey.
The survey will be carried out by the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes in all 314 blocks and 114 civic bodies areas in the state, an official said.
“The objective of the survey is to get a picture of the present social and educational conditions of the people belonging to backward classes in Odisha,” he said.
The state government in its notification said the survey will be carried out under the powers conferred by section 9 of the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes (OSCBC) Act, 1993 and OSCBC (Amendment) Act, 2020.
According to the provisions of the two Acts, the heads of the families or any senior person can provide the family data at the survey center. The families under survey require to give details of their ration and Aadhar cards or voter identity cards of their members.
OBC families having no ration cards may also submit their details at the survey centers. The people can also register their details for the survey online (www.oscbc.odisha.gov.in) free of cost, the official said.

This apart, the people can also register their details at Mo Seva Kendra’ by making the requisite payment, he said.
Meanwhile, the opposition BJP and Congress have said that the state government’s move for the survey ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha and the Odisha assembly election is aimed at creating an OBC vote bank.
BJP OBC Morcha president Surath Biswal in a press conference on Thursday voiced suspicion about the state government’s mode of conducting the survey, which, he said, could be a ploy to dilute the enumeration process.
“The OBC survey should be done on a door-to-door basis instead of opening survey centers. Many poor people may not be able to come to survey centers due to lack of awareness,” he said.
Biswal demanded that the state government provide 27 per cent quota to OBCs in education and jobs as in other states.
The ruling BJD on the other hand maintained that the survey will be conducted to make policies more effective, ensure the socio-economic development of the backward classes and improve their social and educational conditions.
“There is no politics behind the survey. It is purely for the welfare of OBCs,” said Debi Prasad Mishra, a BJD lawmaker said.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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March 16, 2023
No proposal to hike OBC non-creamy layer income ceiling: Centre

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New Delhi: The existing annual income ceiling of Rs 8 lakh is “sufficient” to determine the OBC non-creamy layer status of community members, the Centre told Lok Sabha on Tuesday, clarifying that there is no proposal to increase the cap.
The annual income limit to determine the non-creamy layer status for Other Backward Classes (OBC) has so far been revised four times, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar said in a written reply in the Lower House.
Congress member Dean Kuriakose had sought to know if there was any proposal to increase the OBC non-creamy layer annual income limit from the current Rs 8 lakh to Rs 12 lakh before completion of the next financial year.
“There is no proposal for revision of the OBC non-creamy layer limit since the existing income limit is considered sufficient,” the minister said in his reply.
The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has also not “officially” sought any recommendation from the National Commission for Backward Classes for revision of the existing OBC creamy layer criteria, the minister clarified.
“The income criteria for determining OBC non-creamy layer status of the candidates was fixed as Rs 1 lakh per annum at the time of introduction of the OBC reservation scheme on September 8, 1993,” he said.
This income limit has since been revised four times so far, he added.
The Centre revised the annual income limit for the OBC non-creamy layer from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh in September 2017.

Over the past two years, various sections of the media reported that the Centre was mulling an increase in the annual income ceiling for the category from Rs 8 lakh to 12 lakh.
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February 7, 2023