{
  "id": 15102011,
  "title": "Madhya Pradesh Government Moves Supreme Court Against High Court Verdict Scrapping 27% OBC Reservation, Files Special Leave Petition",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/madhya-pradesh-government-moves-supreme-court-against-high-court",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-17T02:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/madhya-pradesh-government-moves-supreme-court-against-high-court-verdict-scrapping-27-obc-reservation-files-special-leave-petition"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The government of Madhya Pradesh has filed a Special Leave Petition at the Supreme Court in an attempt to challenge a recent High Court decision that reduced the 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) to 14%. The decision upheld the 14% OBC reservation and maintained the 50% upper limit on total reservations in the state. The state government's move comes in response to the Madhya Pradesh High Court's ruling that the 2019 ordinance increasing OBC reservation to 27% was unconstitutional. The state Assembly had passed legislation supporting the increased OBC reservation in July 2019, but the High Court's ruling has sparked a political controversy between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress party.",
  "summary": "Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The state government on Friday filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) challenging the Madhya Pradesh High Court (HC) order rejecting 27% reservation for Other Backwards Classes (OBC), upholding 14% OBC reservation and the 50% upper limit on total reservations in the state. On March 8, 2019, the Kamal Nath-led Congress government had promulgated an ordinance to increase OBC…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}