Other Backward Class

reservation.

So this is about excluding certain individuals from the OBC communities, not certain communities among the OBC classes.

Absolutely, absolutely.

This tool is very specific that we are excluding individuals.

So what the center is saying is that because the notification was issued prior to the judgment, the results were declared prior to the judgment.

Every single person, OBC person who either applied or chose not to apply for the 2025 civil services examination did so under the impression of the old income test reading, which is the differential income test reading.

So post results, if we start implementing this judgment, the center seems to think it would be unfair to all the people who would have appeared or chosen not to appear in the 2025 civil services examination.

As for the foundation course, it's a big question mark.

I mean, the structural changes here are fascinating because they represent a fundamental shift in optics.

The trust brought on Dr. Nirmala Yadav as their first woman and OBC trustee.

Which is a significant change for them.

Totally.

He's currently on an indefinite hunger strike and has laid down a really strict September 12th deadline.

He's threatening a massive march to Mumbai if the state government doesn't issue CUNB cast certificates to all eligible Marathas, which would obviously grant them OBC benefits.

And NDTV noted that the state government is trying to de-escalate.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavas is saying they're open to the demands, provided they don't violate Supreme Court orders, which is the real bottleneck here.

It is the same of what I heard when I was a teenager.

Mandal time was very interesting because that was when the OBC entered the picture.

And upper caste had accepted the Dalit as...

So Dalit in Maharashtra was 14%, in other places a little less.

So we had a good amount of Dalit population.

But when you bring in OBC population, it becomes 50% reservation.

And so that it became...

Very huge.

I second that.

Bring the white paper, right? Like, let's look at all the, you know, I think 55, 60 central universities that are there in India, and the 23, 24 IITs and 20 IIMs and the 30 plus NITs, and let's check all the triple IITs and AIIMS and NLUs, and let's check how many, uh, you know, professors and, uh, people you hired under SC, ST, OBC, right? RTI after RTI is coming out and telling you that, like, you know, these reservation mandates are actually not being followed.

Like, they will...

This has been a cycle which has been going on forever.

Like, uh, in the NEET protest, there's a huge section of Savarna youth, and not just youth, adults, working professionals, people came out, like all the people who were not in Delhi who were putting up stories, people who were sending food packets to, you know, from different cities to Jantar Mantar protesters.

You know, we don't have a caste composition of them.

No, that was not just coming from SC, ST, OBC.

That was coming from a lot of Savarna, uh, society people also, I would imagine.

Right.

They want to introduce a creamy layer criterion across all reservation categories, so that's SC, ST, and OBC.

For those unfamiliar with the term, the creamy layer essentially refers to a household income threshold.

The protesters are arguing that wealthier members of historically marginalized groups should be excluded from affirmative action benefits.

[drum roll] With the BJP-led center telling the Supreme Court yesterday that it is reconsidering the University Grants Commission's equity regulation that has been challenged before it, the Narendra Modi government has taken a calibrated step towards buying time to wriggle out of a situation that has led to signs of anger among upper castes, the core constituency of the party since 1989, over potential misuse.

At the same time, the BJP has to tread cautiously as the combined demographic weight of the other backward classes, or OBCs, scheduled castes, and scheduled tribes far exceeds the upper castes.

[upbeat music] In other major news, Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke's late Wednesday message to the Bar Council chief, Manan Kumar Misra, the man who worked himself into the center of a row between Supreme Court Chief Justice Suryakant and graduating students from NALSAR, a Hyderabad law college.

Dipke's post came as the CJP called for a peaceful protest at the BCI chief's Delhi office.