Rajasthan MLA demands increase in OBC reservation
Rajasthan, February 14: Congress MLA Harish Chowdhary wrote to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot demanding an increase in OBC reservation from 21 per cent to 27 per cent.
Letter to CM Gehlot stated that, "On the lines of central services and according to the decision of the Honorable Supreme Court, the reservation of OBC class should be increased from 21 percent to 27 percent in proportion to the population in Rajasthan."
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The letter further stated that, "Even this number gets reduced due to various anomalies. Significantly, on the recommendation of the Mandal Commission, in 1992, the Central Government gave 27 per cent reservation in government services to the OBC, and that was implemented in Rajasthan also. But in 1992, in the Indra Sawhney & Others v. Union of India case, the Supreme Court kept the maximum limit of reservation up to 50 per cent."
Harish Chowdhary highlighted that the 103rd Constitutional Amendment in 2019, the compulsion of maximum reservation was abolished by providing 10 per cent reservation to the economically backward classes.
In the letter it has also been written that, the reservation of OBC has been increased in Madhya Pradesh as well. Accordingly, the reservation of OBC class should be increased from 21 per cent to 27 per cent in government services and educational institutions in proportion to the population in Rajasthan, so that justice can be done to this class.”
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- ANI
