India, June 14 -- This comes after the Calcutta HC struck down the previous list saying religion appears to have been the sole criterion.
KOLKATA: With the West Bengal Assembly elections due in about eight months, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government led by Mamata Banerjee has moved swiftly to consolidate its core Muslim vote bank by unveiling a new list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
This comes after the Calcutta High Court struck down the previous list, observing that "religion appears to have been the sole criterion" for granting OBC status. On Tuesday, Banerjee tabled the revised OBC-A and OBC-B lists in the Assembly, adding 76 new groups and taking the total to 140. Of these, 80 communities are Muslim.
The lists were adopted...
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