Both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision allowing reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in local body elections, although the BJP clearly appeared more upbeat.
Claiming credit for Wednesday’s decision, party workers celebrated at the BJP’s State headquarters in Bhopal, with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan showing up on an unscheduled visit to address them.
The Congress, on the other hand, accused the State government of letting the OBC community down by failing to present the facts properly before the court, terming the 14% reservation for them as inadequate.
