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 We will ensure that the 1994 GR is also withdrawn,” he warned the OBC leaders.
The Department of SC/ ST and OBC Welfare of the Delhi government on Tuesday made a special presentation at the secretariat on the improvement of the communities' settlements in the national capital.
Jignesh Mevani is one of the prominent leaders of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee. He is an MLA from the Vadgam Assembly constituency in Gujarat.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that the state would initiate employment generation processes once the ongoing case on OBC certificates in the Supreme Court is resolved.
Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar, political parties are vying with each other to claim a piece of the legacy of Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur, who continues to be a prominent figure in Bihar’s OBC politics.
Posting Puja Khedkar plea for hearing on February 14, the bench in its order said, “Till next date of hearing, no coercive steps to be taken against petitioner (Khedkar).”
