UP OBC reservation row: Yogi govt moves SC; Akhilesh Yadav demands special assembly session to discuss issue

OBC reservation in UP: The matter of providing reservations to the Other Backward Class (OBC) in urban local body polls seems to be becoming a hot topic in Utter Pradesh politics. Two days after the Allahabad High Court directed the state administration to hold the elections for urban local bodies without making any accommodations for the OBC reservation, the UP government has moved to the Supreme Court to challenge the order. OBC reservation in UP: The matter of providing reservations to the Other Backward Class (OBC) in urban local body polls seems to be becoming a hot topic in Utter Pradesh politics. Two days after the Allahabad High Court directed the state administration to hold the elections for urban local bodies without making any accommodations for the OBC reservation, the UP government has moved to the Supreme Court to challenge the order.