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Uproar in Maharashtra assembly over OBC reservation in local body election
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 4 (ANI): Almost three months after the Supreme Court refused to accept the Maharashtra panel's interim report on quota for OBCs in local body polls, the issue was raked up by the BJP in Maharashtra Assembly on Friday.
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SC directs Maharashtra govt, state poll panel not to act on BCC's interim
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra government and State Election Commission (SEC) not to act upon the interim report of Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission (SBCC ) which recommended a grant of 27 per cent OBC quota in local bodies
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BJP gave constitutional recognition to backward classes, SP, BSP only supp
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Gautam Buddha Nagar (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 28 (ANI): Taking a jibe at Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party on his day-long visit to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that both the parties did not give Constitutional recognition to the Backward Class
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Merit should be socially contextualized as an instrument that advances soc
Updated : 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday said that merit should be socially contextualized and reconceptualized as an instrument that advances social goods that society values like equality.
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Merit cannot be reduced to definition of performance in competitive exams:
Updated : 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday said that merit cannot be reduced to the definition of performance in open competitive examination and merit should be socially contextualised.
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SC upholds validity of OBC reservation seats in All-India Quota in NEET-PG
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 7 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the validity of the Other Backward Class (OBC) reservation in the All-India Quota (AIQ) seats in NEET-PG and NEET-UG.
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SC allows NEET-PG Counselling for 2021-2022 based on existing EWS, OBC res
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 7 (ANI): Supreme Court on Friday allowed NEET-PG Counselling for 2021-2022 based on existing EWS/OBC reservation criteria.
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Bhim Army, OBC Mahasabha, Jayas protest outside Madhya Pradesh CM's house,
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], January 2 (ANI): A combined team of the Bhim Army, the OBC Mahasabha and the Jayas demonstrated outside Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence against the abolition of reservation in Urban Body and Panchayat polls on Sunday.
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State govts did not take proper stand over OBC reservation issue: Prahlad
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Sagar (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 26 (ANI): Amid the ongoing impasse over OBC reservation in civic polls, Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Saturday said the state governments did not take a proper stand over the matter and the backward classes should not be thrown back into the f
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MP CM has assured no panchayat elections to take place without OBC reserva
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 22 (ANI): Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday said that CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan gave us the assurance in the assembly that no panchayat elections will take place without OBC reservation.
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Will not tolerate elections without OBC reservation: Fadnavis
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], December 16 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said the party "will not tolerate future elections without OBC reservation."
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SC stays OBC reservation in Maharashtra's local body elections
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) in the local body election of Maharashtra until further orders.
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