Yogi Adityanath said, “We are forming a committee to conduct the survey of OBCs”.
Lucknow:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath declared that the state would do so give Reservations to other backward classes or OBCs in Local Bodies and will conduct a survey under Supreme Court guidelines. Elections will not be held prior to surveying and granting of reservation and if need Be, the state will go to the Supreme Court for challenge Allahabad High Court order for Instant notification of elections, he said.
“We are forming a committee that will conduct the survey of OBCs on The basics of Supreme Court Guidelines. We will not go to elections without reservations about OBCs. if requiredWe’ll go to the Supreme Court against Supreme Court order,” Yogi Adityanath said shortly after the state government’s draft notification was revoked by the Supreme Court on urban local body And I ordered the elections to be held without reservation for OBCs.
a division bench of Judges DK Upadhyay and Saurav Lavania in It was the Allahabad High Court also Block reservation for OBCs, and rejected the state’s draft notice of 5. December bench Election Commission ordered immediately issue notice for The election.
Earlier this month, the state issued a provisional list of Reserved seats for Mayors of 17 municipal bodies, heads of 200 Municipal Council and 545 Nagar Panchayats – Reservation of About 30 percent, as saved in during the 2017 elections.
Four mayoralty seats have been reserved – Aligarh, Mathura Vrindavan, Meerut and Prayagraj. for OBC Candidates. In addition to the chairs of the presidents in 200 municipal councils have been booked for OBCs, 147 of Presidents’ seats in 545 Nagar Panchayats were also booked up for OBC Candidates.
The plan to provide booking to OBCs without the Supreme Court’s poll drew criticism from the opposition Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj President Mayawati, and a petition was filed in Supreme Court, objecting to government’s move. The petitioners had argued that the state government Must follow The formula of the Supreme Court and the formation of a committee to study political backwardness of OBCs before booking is determined.
In 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that states should Triple contract test survey” for contemporary data on OBCs before making a decision on percentage of quota. The argument was that the standard for Political quota is different from one for Jobs and education was a survey required to me fix the nature and patterns of lagging.
Social and economic backwardness do not necessarily coincide with political backwardness.
triple test The formula requires states to appoint a committee and collect quantifiable data on the communityand allocate reservations to them in local bodies in This way that total Reservation in The proportion of each seat shall not exceed 50 percent.
Lucknow seat of Allahabad High Court refused off The state government’s argument that it did a quick survey was like good Like a triple test Equation.
