Cong demands implementation of 27% OBC reservations after SC notice to state
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The Congress' allegations come after Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Mohan Yadav govt asking why the benefit of 27% reservations for OBCs is not being implemented.
After a preliminary hearing of petitions filed by OBC community members, a SC bench of justices KV Vishwanathan and N Kotiswar Singh issued the notice to the state govt. In 2019, the erstwhile Congress govt increased reservation for OBCs from 14% to 27% taking the total reservations quota to 63%.
Taking to 'X', @OfficeOfKNath said, "The BJP govt is adopting an anti-OBC attitude in every step. The BJP has been delaying the 27% reservation given to OBCs during my tenure as chief minister in an unconstitutional manner for the last five years. The Honorable Supreme Court has again asked the MP govt why 27% reservation is not being given to OBCs. This is not the first time that the Supreme Court or the High Court has questioned the govt for not implementing reservations.
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The former chief minister further stated, "It is clear that there is no ban on OBC reservation from the court; it is the BJP govt that has conspired and stopped the reservation."
State Congress president Jitu Patwari shot a latter to chief minister Mohan Yadav on Thursday demanding immediate implementation of 27% reservation for OBCs.
Speaking to reporters, Jitu Patwari said, "This govt is involved in a conspiracy to crush the rights of the OBC community and is also rejecting the instructions of the Supreme Court."
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In his letter to the CM, the state PCC chief wrote, "The BJP govt of Madhya Pradesh has crossed all limits of fraud, betrayal and shameful injustice with the OBC community. Ignoring the repeated clear and strict instructions of the Supreme Court, your govt is depriving the OBC brothers and sisters of their constitutional right of 27% reservation. This is not the ugly face of anti-OBC mentality, but the murder of democracy and social justice.
This is a conspiracy of BJP, which wants to enslave more than 50% of the population of Madhya Pradesh!"
Patwari recalled that on Feb 26, 2025, the Madhya Pradesh High Court declared that there is no legal bar on 27% OBC reservation and on April 7, 2025 the Supreme Court reiterated that there is no obstacle to this law. "Now, on 25 June 2025, the Supreme Court put chief minister Mohan Yadav's govt in the dock and asked: When there is no legal obstacle, why is 27% reservation not being implemented? This question exposes the lies and evasions of BJP," Patwari said.
Patwari argued that despite court orders, the BJP govt is busy carrying out its anti-OBC conspiracy. "In 2019, the Congress govt led by the then chief minister Kamal Nath took a revolutionary decision to increase OBC reservation from 14% to 27%. This decision was implemented after getting approval from the assembly and the cabinet. It was a symbol of the upliftment and equality for OBC society. But after seizing power, the BJP hatched a conspiracy to snatch this right.
This conspiracy to cheat more than 50% of the population of Madhya Pradesh and push their future into darkness, will not be tolerated now," Patwari said.
The Congress demanded that the 27% OBC reservation should be implemented immediately without delay. The appointments of OBC candidates selected in the recruitments which were stopped citing rules, should be restored immediately.
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