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- United News of India
SC ruling raises MP's political temperature
Bhopal, Aug 13 (UNI) The Supreme Court's ruling in the case pertaining to the constitutional validity of Other Backward Classes reservation -- under the Madhya Pradesh Public Service (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs) Amendment Act, 2019 -- has raised the political temperature of the state.
The apex court, while hearing the case yesterday, placed it in the 'top of the board' category and ruled that daily hearings would take place from September 23. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Additional SG KM Nataraj and Advocate General Prashant Singh represented the state government.
Reacting to the ruling, Congress state President Jitu Patwari wrote on social media, "Like the previous chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Mohan Yadav dispensation is keeping this crucial matter pending owing to political malice and a strategy. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shall have to pay a heavy price for violating the constitutional rights of Backward Classes and ruining the future of youth. This battle for social justice will be fought on every front by the Congress that shall stage a decisive struggle for OBC rights."
Meanwhile, BJP state Media In-charge Ashish Agarwal described the ruling as the dispensation's victory. "There was a time when the then Chief Minister Kamal Nath would himself furnish false statistics. He made no lawyer stand in court so that the Backward Classes did not get their right," he alleged.
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