Sub-categorise OBC: Khurshid

Law Minister Salman Khurshid has made a strong pitch for sub-categorisation of the Other Backward Classes.

At a time when the Congress is making a serious bid to rope in people from the backward Muslim community in poll-bound UP, Law Minister Salman Khurshid has made a strong pitch for sub-categorisation of the Other Backward Classes.

Government is within its legitimate rights to make sub-categorisation among the OBCs,which would lead to more equitable distribution of benefits of reservation among the castes/communities included in the broad category of OBC, the minister said.

In an article in the latest issue of the partys official mouthpiece Congress Sandesh,Khurshid quoted extensively from reports of Sachar Commission,Rangnath Misra Commission and the famous Supreme Court judgment in the Indira Sawhney and others versus Union of India and others to hammer home his point.

Apparently to buttress the point that the talk about sub-castes among OBC is not something new,the Union minister has pointed out that while 30 states and UTs have their own list of OBCs in the state list,nine states have sub-categories in the state list of OBCs.

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