West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Calcutta High Court’s decision to invalidate OBC certificates issued in the state after 2010. Speaking on Wednesday, Banerjee declared that her government would not accept the ruling and would appeal it in a higher court.
“I do not accept this order of the Calcutta High Court. Recently the Calcutta High Court also cancelled around 26,000 jobs in state-run schools. I did not accept that order as well.
“I will not take any names. Whoever passed it, but I must say that this order favours the BJP. Hence we will not accept it. The reservation for OBCs will continue,” CM Mamata Banerjee said while addressing an election meeting at Hardaha in North 24 Parganas District.
Earlier in the day, the Division Bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Rajasekhar Mantha issued the ruling on the OBC certificate cancellation.
Banerjee also linked the court’s decision to recent remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi had claimed that the Congress and its allies in the Opposition INDIA bloc, if elected, would reduce OBC quotas in favor of Muslims.
“The Prime Minister is claiming for the last few days that the minorities might snatch the quota of the OBCs. Is that possible constitutionally? The minorities can never do that,” CM Banerjee said.
She further explained that the OBC quota lists were compiled following a survey led by Upendra Nath Biswas, a retired IPS officer and former minister in her Cabinet.
“Even then there was a case in court. But they got defeated. This time the same thing will happen,” she said.
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