Gujarat quota for OBCs: BJP, Congress meet Dedicated Commission members

By PTI

AHMEDABAD: Delegations from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress on Thursday submitted representations to a fee appointed by the Gujarat authorities to inquire into the character and implications of backwardness in native our bodies to resolve on reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

While the BJP urged the panel, referred to as the ‘Dedicated Commission’, to offer the very best potential reservation to OBCs in native physique polls, the opposition Congress urged it to take the quota stage to 27 per cent.

Under the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 10 per cent seats are reserved for OBC communities in gram panchayat elections.

The BJP delegation included former minister Shankar Chaudhary, current minister Jagdish Panchal, OBC chief Alpesh Thakor and state celebration spokesperson Bharat Dangar.

“The BJP always believes in the philosophy of uplifting the last man in the last line. Thus, we have urged the Commission to provide maximum possible quota that can be given to OBC candidates in local body polls. We are committed to giving justice to OBCs,” Dangar mentioned in Gandhinagar.

Talking to reporters, Gujarat Congress president Jagdish Thakor mentioned his celebration is in favour of a caste survey to search out out the precise inhabitants of OBCs within the state.

“Since reservation will probably be given on the idea of inhabitants and current social and economical situation of OBCs, our first demand was to have a census to search out out OBC inhabitants.

As per our estimates, OBCs are 52 per cent of the (state’s) inhabitants,” Thakor informed reporters.

“In that case, we urged the Commission to increase the quota from present 10 per cent to 27 per cent. Even the budget should be allocated as per this new proportion,” Thakor added.

The BJP authorities in Gujarat had shaped the fee in July to gather and analyse knowledge in regards to the nature and implications of backwardness in native our bodies, an train essential for fixing OBC quota in panchayat polls.

The fee, shaped as per the directives of the Supreme Court, is headed by retired Gujarat High Court Judge Okay S Jhaveri.

Citing a latest SC judgment, the Gujarat State Election Commission (SEC) had, in July, written to district collectors asking them to transform the ten per cent OBC seats into normal class ones for upcoming elections in additional than 3,200-gram panchayats.

The challenge had snowballed right into a political slugfest with the Congress accusing the ruling BJP of eradicating OBC quota.

AHMEDABAD: Delegations from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress on Thursday submitted representations to a fee appointed by the Gujarat authorities to inquire into the character and implications of backwardness in native our bodies to resolve on reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

While the BJP urged the panel, referred to as the ‘Dedicated Commission’, to offer the very best potential reservation to OBCs in native physique polls, the opposition Congress urged it to take the quota stage to 27 per cent.

Under the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 10 per cent seats are reserved for OBC communities in gram panchayat elections.

The BJP delegation included former minister Shankar Chaudhary, current minister Jagdish Panchal, OBC chief Alpesh Thakor and state celebration spokesperson Bharat Dangar.

“The BJP always believes in the philosophy of uplifting the last man in the last line. Thus, we have urged the Commission to provide maximum possible quota that can be given to OBC candidates in local body polls. We are committed to giving justice to OBCs,” Dangar mentioned in Gandhinagar.

Talking to reporters, Gujarat Congress president Jagdish Thakor mentioned his celebration is in favour of a caste survey to search out out the precise inhabitants of OBCs within the state.

“Since reservation will probably be given on the idea of inhabitants and current social and economical situation of OBCs, our first demand was to have a census to search out out OBC inhabitants.

As per our estimates, OBCs are 52 per cent of the (state’s) inhabitants,” Thakor informed reporters.

“In that case, we urged the Commission to increase the quota from present 10 per cent to 27 per cent. Even the budget should be allocated as per this new proportion,” Thakor added.

The BJP authorities in Gujarat had shaped the fee in July to gather and analyse knowledge in regards to the nature and implications of backwardness in native our bodies, an train essential for fixing OBC quota in panchayat polls.

The fee, shaped as per the directives of the Supreme Court, is headed by retired Gujarat High Court Judge Okay S Jhaveri.

Citing a latest SC judgment, the Gujarat State Election Commission (SEC) had, in July, written to district collectors asking them to transform the ten per cent OBC seats into normal class ones for upcoming elections in additional than 3,200-gram panchayats.

The challenge had snowballed right into a political slugfest with the Congress accusing the ruling BJP of eradicating OBC quota.