OBC quota in UP urban local body polls: Allahabad HC to deliver verdict on Dec 27

Lucknow : The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Saturday completed its hearing on the issue of urban local body elections that has been stayed for a fortnight.
The bench said it will deliver its verdict on December 27.
A division bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Saurabh Lavania passed the order on the bunch of public interest litigation petitions filed by Vaibhav Pandey and others.
Arguing for the petitioners, senior counsel LP Mishra stressed that the reservation to be given to OBC in urban local body elections is different to that of the reservation given in the services and educational institutions.
He argued that reservation to OBC election is political and not social, educational and economical at all and therefore the apex court in the case of Suresh Mahajan has propounded its triple test formula for ensuring political reservation to OBC in local body polls after evaluating their political backwardness.
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