UP govt sets up OBC Commission; panchayat polls to be held after assembly polls
Now, it is almost official that the three-tier panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held after the crucial 2027 assembly polls.
Now, it is almost official that the three-tier panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held after the crucial 2027 assembly polls.
Telangana Jagruthi President Kavitha Kalvakuntla on Thursday said that Delimitation should be linked with an OBC sub-quota instead of the Women's Reservation Bill so that OBC women can get their rightful share of representation.
West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Friday announced the constitution of five new cultural & development boards for Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), and Scheduled Caste (SC) communities in the state.
The buzz also is that the Panchayat elections scheduled this year may be postponed after the 2027 Assembly elections, due to 'administrative and technical reasons'.
“If the government listens to certain pressures (from OBC leaders including Food & Civil Supplies Minister Chhagan Bhujbal) and if anything goes wrong, we will challenge the 1994 GR in court which gave our reservation to others. We will not spare anyone then. We will ensure that the 1994 GR is also withdrawn,” he warned the OBC leaders.
Pro-Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange-Patil on Friday launched his indefinite fast demanding reservation for the Maratha community from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota.
The Calcutta High Court’s division Bench today refused to interfere with a single-judge order directing the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board to prepare a fresh merit list excluding certain Other Backward Classes (OBC) groups.
The voting for the election to the Committee will be held from 11 am to 2 am on August 19, in Samvidhan Sadhan.
The AIDSO took out a rally demanding the merit list of students applying for graduation be published quickly, college admissions begin and joint entrance results be published quickly.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) to scrap its merit list and prepare a new one, citing irregularities related to Other Backward Classes (OBC) certification and reservations.
