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In mission to trigger review of State OBC lists, NCBC hits a wall of absent socio-economic data

The National Commission for Backward Classes’s work is now being cited by PM Modi to attack Congress’s social justice platform

The Hindu · May 4, 2024

Why and how Muslims were given quotas under OBC reservation in Karnataka

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a poll rally in Rajasthan’s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur Lok Sabha constituency on April 23, accused the Congress of “snatching the reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs and providing it to Muslims through the backdoor”, tying it up with his charge that “Congress would redistribute the wealth…

The Hindu · May 3, 2024

NCBC to summon Karnataka Chief Secretary over Muslim OBC quota

NCBC Chairperson Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said the Commission is going to summon the Chief Secretary of the Karnataka government over the State’s categorisation of the OBC quota

The Hindu · Apr 24, 2024

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Political heat rises as BJP and Congress clash in Chandrapur Lok Sabha seat

Chandrapur Lok Sabha election heats up as BJP and Congress battle for the coal belt seat.

The Hindu · Apr 10, 2024

Backward Classes Commission notice to WB over inclusion of 87 castes in Central OBC list

This comes even as the Commission is in the middle of an investigation into what its Chairperson, Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, had in February called an “unusual abundance” of Muslim castes in the State’s OBC list.

The Hindu · Oct 21, 2023

80 castes to be added to Central OBC list

The communities that are now likely to be added to the Central list are from States such as Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana.

The Hindu · Jun 15, 2023

NCBC probing West Bengal’s State OBC list; Chair Hansraj asks why more Muslim communities than Hindu

Acting upon allegations that illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Rohingyas from Myanmar were being allowed to take up reservation in West Bengal, the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has now launched an investigation into the State’s OBC list, Commission Chair Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said.

The Hindu · Jun 8, 2023

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