MP govt committed to 27 pc OBC quota, says CM Yadav

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has said his government is committed to 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the state. A delegation of the OBC Mahasabha met Yadav at his residence on Saturday in Bhopal and submitted a memorandum listing various demands of the community, a government release said. The CM assured the delegation that rights of the OBC community would be protected, it said. "The Centre has approved caste-based census to prepare basic data of all communities. The issue of OBC reservation is pending before the Supreme Court, with regular hearings scheduled to begin from September 23. The government will abide by the court's decision," the release quoted him as saying.
According to OBC Mahasabha's national core committee member Lokendra Gurjar,"Currently OBCs are getting 14 per cent reservation in MP. We want this figure to go up to 27 per cent," Gurjar, who is one of the petitioners in the case related to OBC quota being heard by the Supreme Court, was part of a delegation of members of his outfit, other petitioners, lawyers, etc, that met the CM.
The previous Congress government in MP under Kamal Nath, which was in power from December 2018 to March 2020, had raised the quota for OBCs from 14 to 27 per cent through an ordinance. However, it got caught up in legal tangles. OBCs comprise 51.8 per cent of Madhya Pradesh's population. Since 2003, all BJP chief ministers, namely Uma Bharti, Babulal Gaur, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Mohan Yadav, have been from the OBC segment.