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 We will ensure that the 1994 GR is also withdrawn,” he warned the OBC leaders.
Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan stated that the Congress leader tends to realise things far too late.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday extended till 31 August its interim stay on the West Bengal government issuing the final notification for a fresh Other Backward Class (OBC) list.
Any Dalit or OBC could have been sent in place of Shukla ji." This careless statement by Congress leader Udit Raj, made in response to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s selection for the Axiom-4 space mission, is more than just an insult to scientific achievement.
Despite holding the ceremonial post of ‘founder’ in the OBC Vanniyar dominant Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Ramadoss senior axed his son and party president Anbumani from the executive committee on Sunday.
Reacting sharply to the proposed caste census, Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) supremo Mayawati asserted that the interests of the OBCs are safe with the BSP as the party is the true friend of the OBC society.
