{"id":240852,"date":"2024-05-23T01:07:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=240852"},"modified":"2024-05-23T01:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:37:22","slug":"will-not-accept-cal-hc-order-scrapping-obc-status-of-several-classes-in-bengal-mamata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/will-not-accept-cal-hc-order-scrapping-obc-status-of-several-classes-in-bengal-mamata\/","title":{"rendered":"Will not accept Cal HC order scrapping OBC status of several classes in Bengal: Mamata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khardah (WB), May 22 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that she \u201cwill not accept\u201d the Calcutta High Court order scrapping the OBC status of several classes in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a poll rally at Khardah under the Dumdum Lok Sabha constituency, Banerjee said the OBC reservation will continue in the state, as the Bill concerned was passed within the framework of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe OBC reservation quota introduced by the West Bengal government will continue. We had drafted the Bill after conducting a house-to-house survey, and it was passed by the cabinet and the assembly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe BJP has conspired to stall it by using central agencies. How can the saffron party show such audacity?\u201d the TMC boss said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday struck down the OBC status of several classes in West Bengal, finding such reservations under an Act of 2012 to vacancies in services and posts in the state illegal. PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khardah (WB), May 22 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that she \u201cwill not accept\u201d the Calcutta High Court order scrapping the OBC status of several classes in the state. Addressing a poll rally at Khardah under the Dumdum Lok Sabha constituency, Banerjee said the OBC reservation will continue in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}