The High Court abolished the OBC status of 77 Muslim castes of West Bengal

Voting for the sixth section of Lok Sabha elections goes to be held on June 25 after which the final spherical of voting will probably be held on June 1.

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In this fashion, a few week is left for the elections and earlier than that the dialogue about the necessary choice of the Calcutta High Court is intense. On Wednesday, the High Court abolished the OBC status of 77 Muslim castes in West Bengal. The High Court gave this necessary choice declaring the foundation of granting OBC status to those Muslim castes as unlawful. Out of these 77 castes, 42 got OBC status in 2010 by the then Left authorities. After this, the remaining castes had been added throughout the Mamata Banerjee authorities.

The courtroom mentioned in its choice that there must be a right away ban on these communities getting appointments below the OBC quota. Along with this, a aid information was additionally provided that no motion must be taken towards those that have now obtained jobs or admission below OBC quota. Although the choice of the High Court is an instance for different states of the nation, its electoral affect can be seen in Bengal. The inhabitants of Muslims in the state is about 30 p.c, who’ve affect in nearly the whole state.

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The 17 seats the place elections are held in the sixth and seventh phases have a sizeable Muslim inhabitants. In such a state of affairs, it might not be shocking if there’s a state of affairs of polarization in the elections. Rejecting the OBC status, the courtroom mentioned, ‘The courtroom is of the view that unsuitable standards had been adopted for granting OBC status to 77 Muslim castes. It can be suspected that an try was made to make use of these individuals as vote financial institution. The approach these individuals had been included in the OBC checklist, evidently they had been handled as vote banks.

Who filed the petition and what was the argument

The courtroom has given this order after a protracted listening to on the petition filed by three individuals. In these petitions, it was mentioned that many castes had been included in the OBC-A and OBC-B checklist with none financial and social research. This occurred after 2011, when Trinamool Congress got here to energy.

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