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Rajasthan to Hold Municipal Polls Before Panchayat Elections
Rajasthan to Hold Municipal Polls Before Panchayat Elections
The Rajasthan government will hold municipal elections before panchayat polls after the Rajasthan High Court directed it to announce an election schedule. The BJP government had deferred both elections repeatedly. The OBC…
The Story in Brief
The Rajasthan government will hold municipal elections before panchayat polls after the Rajasthan High Court directed it to announce an election schedule. The BJP government had deferred both elections repeatedly. The OBC Representative Commission’s report has cleared a key step before reservations are finalised. It estimates Rajasthan’s OBC population at 3.80 crore, or about 45 per cent of the state’s population, across 92 communities.
The commission recommends political reservation for all 92 OBC communities and says the combined SC, ST and OBC quota must stay within the Supreme Court’s 50 per cent ceiling. The report could lead to OBC reservations of up to 21 per cent. Rajasthan has 309 urban local bodies with 10,245 wards and 14,403 gram panchayats. The cabinet will examine the report before the reservation matrix is notified.
The Indian Opinion
The easy political story is that the BJP fears rural defeat while Congress expects a sweep. Both claims are campaign positions, not results. The more immediate test is whether the government can complete reservations lawfully and without another delay after the High Court’s intervention. The commission’s 45 per cent estimate is also disputed, with a former Congress OBC coordinator claiming the figure is closer to 55 per cent. The final reservation order and election timetable will provide the harder evidence.
Source: nationalheraldindia.com
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