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JAIPUR: BJP-governed Rajasthan is considering reviewing 14 Muslim groups on its OBC list, taking the cue from Calcutta high court’s recent scrapping of 77 classes, mostly Muslims, categorised as OBCs by Bengal’s TMC govt.
“We will examine after June 4 (the LS results day, after which the model code will be lifted) if the inclusion of these (Muslim) communities in the OBC list from 1997 to 2013 was legal or illegal,” Rajasthan social justice minister Avinash Gehlot said.He cited the Calcutta HC order and asserted that religion-based reservations were wrong.
Campaigning in Lucknow, Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma accused INDIA bloc, constituent TMC and Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee of “crossing all limits of appeasement and committing a grave sin” by giving Muslims OBC quotas.
Bengal OBC Act was in violation of statute, CalcuttaHC had ruled
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