MP Home Adjourned Sine Die Amid Ruckus by Congress for Implementing OBC Quota

The Madhya Pradesh Meeting on Tuesday witnessed a ruckus created by Congress MLAs demanding the implementation of the 27% quota for OBCs introduced by the erstwhile Kamal Nath authorities, forcing the Speaker to adjourn the Home two days earlier than schedule. Amid the din within the Home, the place BJP enjoys a majority, six payments together with the MP Excise (Modification) Invoice prescribing capital punishment and life imprisonment within the instances associated to deaths attributable to the consumption of spurious liquor, had been declared handed. The primary supplementary calls for for FY 2021-22 had been additionally declared handed. Within the 230-member Home, the BJP has 125 MLAs, Congress 95, BSP 2, SP 1, and 4 are Independents. Three seats are at the moment vacant, as per the state Meeting web site. Half of the query hour was washed out as MLAs of Congress trooped into the Properly of the Home and raised slogans towards inflation and rising costs of gas, forcing an adjournment.

As quickly because the Home convened after query hour, the Opposition members carrying aprons with anti-government slogans, as soon as once more entered the Properly alleging the BJP authorities is dilly-dallying the implementation of the 27 per cent reservation for Different Backward Lessons (OBCs) introduced by the erstwhile Congress authorities. Chief of Opposition Kamal Nath mentioned the state authorities was adopting an anti-OBC stand by not implementing the reservation. Amid sloganeering by Opposition legislators, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan mentioned the Congress did nothing for the welfare of the backward courses. Chouhan accused Congress of hypocrisy and deceiving the backward courses. Now, Congress is doing a drama on this problem, he mentioned. Congress MLAs, in the meantime, mentioned the BJP authorities’s reply within the excessive courtroom (the place the OBC reservation problem is pending) exhibits that it was not occupied with offering the reservation. The earlier Congress authorities had supplied 27 per cent reservation to OBCs however the BJP authorities has did not current its plea strongly within the HC to help this choice, they mentioned. Amid the ruckus created by each side, nothing may very well be heard. Speaker Girish Gautam continued to conduct the enterprise as scheduled amid sloganeering by Congress MLAs. After finishing the listed enterprise, the Speaker adjourned the Home sine die amid ruckus. The monsoon session was imagined to conclude on August 12. Later, talking to reporters, CM Chouhan once more accused Congress of hypocrisy on the difficulty of OBC reservation.

“However the BJP authorities will go away no stone unturned to implement the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs, he mentioned. Talking to PTI, senior Congress MLA Kamleshwar Patel claimed the state advocate common had advised the Excessive Court docket to proceed the keep on the OBC reservation until the listening to concludes. This exhibits that the state authorities just isn’t prepared to implement this reservation. The Digvijaya Singh authorities (1993-2003) had determined to implement the OBC reservation however the BJP authorities later didn’t battle the case correctly within the courtroom. Now, the federal government is doing it once more, Patel alleged. He mentioned the BJP authorities just isn’t placing ahead a robust reply within the HC to make sure that the reservation granted to OBCs by the earlier Kamal Nath authorities is applied. “The BJP’s stand just isn’t clear on the OBC reservation problem,” he alleged. The then Kamal Nath-led Congress authorities had elevated the OBC quota from 14% to 27% in March 2019. The excessive courtroom stayed the choice.