Bhubaneswar: The Government of LED Naveen Patnaik is trapped in a difficult situation because it must make laws to reduce the quota for other backup classes (OBC) in the election of the Local Body and Body (UlbD) to comply with direction instructions.
For more than two decades, Odisha has 27% quota provisions for the back class in the Three Level Panchayat and Ulb polls, starting with what was held in 1997, three years before NaveNeen took over the first time in 2000.
However, following direction From the Orissa High Court in 2018, which was then enforced by the Supreme Court, the State must reduce the division of OBC to carry the overall reservation within a 50% limit, from 64% to the last Panchayat election in 2017.
The government must reduce the OBC quota to under 12%.
At Subash Chandra Bal Bal versus Case Odisha, HC has been on April 18, 2018 held that the upper limit of reservations with respect to SCS, STS and OBC should not exceed 50%.
Earlier this week, Pancayati Raj and Minister of Law Pratap Jena said the government would change the ORISSA Gram Pancrayat Act 1964, Law Samiti Orissa Panchayat, 1999 and Orissa Zilla Parishad Act, 1991 in the upcoming assembly session with the direction of the court.
Likewise, the government must change laws that regulate ULB polls.
To deal with the possibility of counterattacks from OBC, the number of different estimates excluded than 50%, BJD has taken two main steps.
First, the party approached the minister of house Amit Shah earlier this month to bring the central law to eliminate 50% in the quota and conduct a caste-based census so that the scientific data on their number formed the basis for class quota retreat, which might pass judicial supervision.
But that step seems impossible to happen at the near future.
Secondly, BJD unilaterally announced that it would determine the 27% of OBC candidates in future polls, starting with the election of Pancires due to March before next March.
However, the opposition has questioned why failing to convince the court to allow a 27% quota for OBC because such exceptions have been made for countries such as Tamil Nadu.