Backward Classes Welfare Department has directed officials not to treat candidates from 26 omitted communities as BCs in local body elections after instances of ineligible candidates being elected in recent Gram Panchayat polls
Despite promising 42% reservations for BCs, the Congress government has spent two years issuing conflicting orders, rushing Bills and blaming the Centre, only to admit the quota was legally impossible. With GO 46 reducing BC reservations further, protests have erupted across the State
