OBC quota: Supreme Court ruling a blow to Uddhav Thackeray Government

Revert 27% seats reserved in local body polls to ‘general category’, says court

In a blow to the Uddhav Thackeray Government in Maharshtra, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to revert 27% seats reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in local body elections to “general category”.

The court ordered the Commission to denotify the 27% seats as OBC and issue fresh notification declaring them as belonging to the general category within a week.

The court said the final results of the remaining 73% seats, for which the local body elections process were already on, and the freshly notified 27% should be declared on the same day.