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SC refuses to consider plea against 42% quota to backward classes govt order
The Morning Standard
|October 07, 2025
THE Supreme Court on Monday in its order refused to entertain a petition challenging the Telangana government’s order to provide 42 per cent reservation to the Backward Classes in local bodies -- municipalities and Panchayats.
During the course of the hearing on Monday, the lawyer for the counsel appearing for the petitioner, Vanga Gopal Reddy, withdrew the plea from the top court, after sensing that the bench of the SC headed by Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta showed its disinclination to hear the plea filed under Article 32 of the Constitution for the protection of fundamental rights.
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