The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday drew flak from the BSP and BJP's former ally SBSP after the Allahabad High Court a day ago stayed the notification to include 17 OBC groups in the state's scheduled castes list.
Terming the state government's move as "most unfortunate", BSP president Mayawati said such decisions by the government are "guided by total selfish and political motives".
Accusing the Adityanath government of doing injustice to OBCs, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar said if the UP government was serious about including the 17 other backward classes in the SC list, it should have sent a proposal to the Centre and got the Parliament's approval.
In her tweet in Hindi, Mayawati said, "The news of the high court putting a stay on the forcible declaration of 17 OBCs as scheduled castes in Uttar Pradesh is naturally in limelight today."
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