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NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party connected Wednesday upped the ante against West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee and accused her authorities of encouraging spiritual conversions successful the authorities successful the guise of "social inclusion.
"BJP IT Cell caput Amit Malviya, successful a societal media station connected X, cited the authorities OBC database which stated that "those who person to Christianity volition automatically beryllium considered OBC.""This is Mamata Banerjee’s thought of “social inclusion” — 1 that openly encourages spiritual conversions!" the BJP person said."So now, conversion from Hinduism is being rewarded with OBC presumption and lifelong preservation benefits! A unsafe precedent.
A wide maltreatment of societal justness for vote-bank politics," helium added.Malviya besides said that, earlier 2010, that is during the erstwhile Left Front regime, of the full 66 OBC classes, lone 11 classes were from the Muslim community, portion the remaining 55 classes were from the non-Muslim community, with Muslim stock being conscionable astatine 20 per cent.The BJP person said that successful the caller additions for 2025, of the 51 caller further classes successful Part 1, 46 (or 90 per cent) were Muslims, portion of 25 caller additions successful Part-2 a full 21 (or 84 per cent) were Muslims.
"If this isn't religion-based appeasement, what is? On June 3, 2025, the West Bengal authorities accrued the OBC preservation successful State Services to 17 per cent (from 7 per cent) -- intelligibly to payment these recently included Muslim groups. But here's the catch: On December 9, 2024, the Supreme Court said -- Reservation can't beryllium based connected religion. Earlier, Calcutta High Court had struck down this nonstop database for doing conscionable that.
The caller database is thing but a blatant contempt of tribunal and an insult to the principles of societal justice," Malviya said.This comes a time aft Mamata, portion addressing the Monsoon league of the Assembly, said that religion has nary transportation with the caller OBC survey portion tabling the study which has identified 140 communities successful the OBC category.She besides claimed that determination were 49 castes successful the OBC-A category, portion determination were 91 castes successful the OBC-B class and 50 much castes volition soon beryllium included.Meanwhile, TMC person Kunal Ghosh backed Mamata and said accused BJP of confusing the public."This is perfectly false. Mamata Banerjee has made things wide astir the OBC list. She has explained everything," Ghosh said."What Amit Malviya and LoP of the authorities are doing is distorting (things) and wanting to confuse the public. But Mamata Banerjee has made everything clear," helium added.What is the issue?Earlier successful May 2024, a part seat of the Calcutta precocious tribunal cancelled each the OBC certificates issued successful West Bengal aft 2010, which ideally meant that each specified certificates issued during the existent Trinamool Congress authorities successful the authorities since 2011 stood null.Following this bid from the part seat of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Rajasekhar Mantha, much than 5,00,000 OBC certificates issued during that play stood cancelled and could not beryllium utilized for enjoying the preservation for jobs.The West Bengal authorities moved the Supreme Court based connected the Calcutta High Court order, and successful March this year, the apex tribunal allowed the authorities authorities to behaviour a caller survey to place the OBCs successful the state.However, since the opening of the survey, the BJP has questioned the benignant and format of conducting the caller survey by the authorities government.Leader of the Opposition and BJP person Suvendu Adhikari claimed that the authorities government's caller survey was being conducted successful the aforesaid manner, which did not clasp crushed successful the Supreme Court and was scrapped by the Calcutta precocious court.
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