Political sparring erupts in Bengal after Calcutta High Court stays new OBC list

West Bengal OBC list, Calcutta High Court OBC stay, Mamata Banerjee OBC list, TMC OBC reservation, Suvendu Adhikari on OBC list, Suvendu Adhikari (left) hailed the High Court decision to put an interim stay on the OBC list while TMC leader Kunal Ghosh (right) said it is a conspiracy by the Opposition. Political tensions escalated in West Bengal on Wednesday after the Calcutta High Court stayed the implementation of a new OBC reservation list introduced by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government on Tuesday.

- GNS News Agency, June 18

The court order came days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee laid the revised list before the Assembly. A division bench of Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Rajasekhar Mantha directed the state not to take any action based on the list until July 31, when the matter will be heard next. Earlier this month, the West Bengal government had issued a notification expanding the OBC list to include 76 additional sub-castes, taking the total number of communities to 140. Of these, 80 are Muslim communities and 60 are non-Muslim.