Bihar News: Nitish government reached Supreme Court to challenge the decision of the High Court, demand to increase reservation to 65 percent
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On June 20, Patna High Court had canceled the law of Bihar government giving 65 percent reservation to Scheduled Castes, Tribes, Extremely Backward and Other Backward Classes. The court had declared it unconstitutional.
Nitish government has knocked the door of the Supreme Court. A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the decision of Patna High Court to stop 65 percent reservation. Patna High Court had canceled the amended reservation laws in Bihar. Against this decision, Bihar government lawyer Manish Singh filed a petition and demanded to increase the quota for Dalits, tribals and backward classes from 50 percent to 65 percent.
Tejashwi Yadav had made these allegations
The opposition was constantly alleging that the National Democratic Alliance government did not want to increase the reservation in Bihar. BJP wants to play with the reservation. A few days ago, Tejashwi Yadav had said that we already suspected that the people of BJP would work to stop the reservation under any circumstances. We had also said in the elections that the people of BJP are anti-reservation. Amidst these allegations of the opposition, the NDA government’s move to the Supreme Court is being considered as a reply to the opponents.
On June 20, the Patna High Court had given the verdict
On June 20, the Patna High Court had repealed the law giving 65% reservation to the Scheduled Castes, Tribes, Extremely Backward and Other Backward Classes of the Bihar Government. The Patna High Court had declared it unconstitutional. That is, now the Scheduled Castes, Tribes, Extremely Backward and Other Backward Classes will not get 65% reservation in educational institutions and government jobs. The old system of 50 percent reservation has come into force.
On November 21, 2023, the Bihar government had published the gazette
The Bihar government had increased the reservation scope to 65 percent through the Reservation Amendment Bill. Add the 10 percent reservation given to the economically weaker section, which will give the benefit of a total of 75 percent reservation. On November 21, 2023, the Bihar government had published the gazette regarding this. After this, SC/ST, OBC and OBC were getting the benefit of 65% reservation in educational institutions and jobs.
Courtesy: Hindi News