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This is an archive article published on May 24, 2024
Calcutta HC’s OBC ruling: PM Modi targets Opposition, Mamata Banerjee says will move SC
PM Modi, meanwhile, targeted Mamata and the Opposition over the issue.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee A day after the Calcutta High Court cancelled all OBC certificates issued by the West Bengal government since 2010, a defiant Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she would move the Supreme Court while Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed the Opposition had been trying to “snatch” OBC reservations and give them to Muslims.
The High Court Wednesday set aside the classification of 37 communities as OBCs. The court was hearing a public interest litigation challenging provisions of the West Bengal Backward Classes (Other than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) (Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts) Act, 2012. Hours later, Banerjee said she will not accept the order, and OBC reservation will continue.
On Thursday, too, Banerjee asserted that the certificates would not be cancelled. “I will file an appeal in the Supreme Court after summer vacation. You (BJP) are playing at A and I will play at B. If you play at C, I will play at Z,” she said at a rally in support of TMC candidate Sudip Bandyopadhyay in Kolkata Uttar.
PM Modi, meanwhile, targeted Mamata and the Opposition over the issue.
At a rally in Haryana’s Bhiwani-Mahendragarh, he said: “In Bengal, the conspiracy of the INDI ‘jamaat’ against SC, ST and OBC reservation, their anti-reservation mindset, has been exposed. In Bengal, they had given OBC certificates to Muslims overnight. The High Court has cancelled all OBC certificates given to Muslims in the last 10-12 years. Had the court not been there, what would have happened,” he said.
In UP’s Ambedkar Nagar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said: “In West Bengal, the court has put a stay on the OBC reservations wrongly given to Muslim castes…”
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