Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi

New Delhi, Oct 16: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea by the Telangana government challenging the High Court’s interim stay on expanded reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local body elections. The state had increased OBC quotas to 42 per cent, pushing total reservations to 67 per cent, exceeding the 50 per cent limit set by the apex court in its 1992 Indra Sawhney judgment.

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s government, argued that the expanded quotas were a policy decision supported unanimously by the legislature. He contended that the Indra Sawhney ruling does not impose a rigid 50 per cent ceiling and allows exceeding it in exceptional circumstances. Singhvi crit

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