BJP, Congress reject BJD’s decision to give 40% seats to OBCs in local polls
The Hindu
Both demand ensuring of OBC quota before going ahead with rural polls
Politics over providing reservation to Other Backward Class (OBC) candidates in rural polls heated up in Odisha with the opposition BJP and the Congress rejecting the ruling Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) decision to select 40% of its candidates from OBCs.
Both the BJP and the Congress said the OBC communities, which constituted more than 50% of the State’s population, did not want charity, but their representation should be guaranteed in proportion to their population through constitutional mechanism.
The State government has released draft reservation list for zilla parishad and panchayat samitis and sarpanch without OBC quota.
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