BHUBANESWAR: Opposition political parties on Thursday criticised the BJD government for holding urban local body and panchayat elections without OBC quota. The attack comes a day after the Supreme Court gave its nod for OBC quota in Madhya Pradesh.
BJP state general secretary Lekhashri Samantsinghar said the apex court verdict proves that the Naveen Patnaik government has ignored the backward classes. “Why did the government not approach the SC with the required triple tests for quota?” read a part of Samantsinghar’s tweets.
